Assistant Category Manager

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Assistant Category ManagerFull-timeCompany DescriptionTalabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.Job DescriptionRole SummaryWe’re looking for a Ast Category Manager to join the team and focus on growing our own Grocery Store “tMart”, which is the region’s first cloud store concept offering 30-minutedelivery of groceries at hypermarket prices. The service has expanded rapidly across Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman and Iraq!  What is on your plate?Full Ownership over the category management role in terms of Assortments, Pricing, Offers and Supply.Responsible for monitoring economic performance of the assigned departments /categories across sales, gross margin, profit and loss and consistency with the company's commercial strategy.Ensuring proper implementation of the commercial strategy and strategic guidelines, including categories plan and pricing strategy.Providing input to the Ops team flows, adjacencies, tools and templates, fixtures, etc.Reviewing and resolving any issues with local suppliers.Assortment:Ensuring cost efficiency across our consumers that meets their needs/wants.Defining and maintaining the local assortment and integrating the basic assortment for the department/categories.Providing regional teams with information regarding products and quantities needed for international and regional contracts.Selecting local suppliers, negotiating and purchasing in line with expected needs guided by standards such as cost price, discounts, rebates, payment terms, discounts, etc.Price:Pricing the items based on pricing guidelines and recommended prices for PL/Imported items.Collecting market prices and conducting country price audits.Promos:Identifying local promo products and pricing each item and submitting forecasting/relevant reordering information to replenishment.Developing the country promotion calendar.Following up and ensuring effective execution of all activities required for each promotional event.Analyzing and providing inputs for more effective promotional activities such as consumer preferences, local competitors and trends.Defining and maintaining the local assortment and integrating the basic assortment for the department/categories.Providing regional teams with information regarding products and quantities needed for international and regional contracts.Selecting local suppliers, negotiating and purchasing in line with expected needs guided by standards such as cost price, discounts, rebates, payment terms, discounts, etc.Regular market visits to check the assortment available in the country and pushing our suppliers to source them for us. Price:Pricing the items based on Ministry pricing guidelines of Fruits & Vegetables on a daily basis.Collecting market prices and conducting country price audits.Promos:Identifying local promo products and pricing each item and submitting forecasting/relevant reordering information to replenishment.Developing the country promotion calendar.Following up and ensuring effective execution of all activities required for each promotional event.Analyzing and providing inputs for more effective promotional activities such as consumerpreferences, local competitors and trends.Quality: Regular Tmart Stores visits to ensure the quality of Fruits & Veg provided by our suppliers is as per our requirement and SOP.  QualificationsWhat Did We Order?You have at least 5+ years of experience in progressive development and management of multiple product categories, matured by working for large retailers (FMCG), in an international setting.You have built teams and led...