Assistant Category Manager

Role Summary

We 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-minute delivery of groceries at hypermarket prices. The service has expanded rapidly across Kuwait UAE Qatar Jordan Bahrain Egypt Oman and Iraq.

• Full Ownership over the category management role in terms of Assortments, Pricing, Offers and Supply.
• 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 by regular visiting the suppliers warehouse Assortment.
• Monitoring the daily availability list and ensuring new seasonal items are regularly listed by the supplier.
• 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.
• Regular market visits to check the assortment available in the country and pushing our suppliers to source them for us.
• Pricing the items based on Ministry pricing guidelines on a daily basis, collecting market prices and conducting country price audits.
• 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.

• 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 cross-functional projects at scale.
• You are very detail-oriented, and structured and know how to prioritize -- you consider yourself as someone who delivers solutions and not bottlenecks to be solved.
• You are willing to do anything necessary for the project to succeed, including working on the warehouse floor when you are short-staffed to make a customer delivery, or to take customer calls. No job is too insignificant, no detail is too small for you.
• You can interact with senior-level executives and can manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders.
• You are someone energized by the unknown and look forward to learning each day on the job.
• You have excellent analytical and communication skills and always like to be hands-on with several tools.
• Additionally, you have robust interpersonal and intercultural skills.
• You can inspire several teams and stakeholders to rally behind a mission.
• Language skills:
  Fluent in English mandatory & Arabic can be a plus.