Category Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring economic performance of the assigned departments /categories across sales, gross margin, profit and loss and consistency with the companys 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.