Category Management Associate.Home Care - Paper & Disposables

Job Purpose

To assist in achieving the department sales, margin, other income and total commercial margin in order to support the company in achieving the sales and bottom line targets.

• Assists the Category/Assistant Category Manager in the negotiations of the annual supply agreements with the vendors as per the company guidelines.
• In managing product categories, the Category Associate recommends the product categories to the Category manager as well as assisting him/her in implementing the category plan in line with sales budget and forecasts.
• Assists the category manager in negotiating and administrating the cost and retail prices setting (Product Margin).
• Assist the category manager in managing the total commercial margin by negotiating/follow-up the deals with the vendors and ensure the implementation.
• Analyzes and follow-up with the vendors the product sourcing process and complete all the formalities.
• Helps in managing the vendor relations by providing periodically feedback to the vendors on their performance.

• Supplier Brief Communication
• Items’ Selection
• Promo Internal Communication
• Forecasting
• Signoff
• Post Promo Review and Action

• Setting MFQ & MDQ

Planogram implementation