Senior Category Manager
Job Description
<p><strong>About the job</strong></p><p>Do you want to join our E-commerce Business Team as a Senior Category Manager? If yes, please read on carefully to learn more about the opportunity and the expectations.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Who we are:</strong></p><p>Raqtan Group is a Saudi-owned, family-operated group with specialized businesses in F&B development, e-commerce, and data. We are pioneers in our industries and have over 40 years of experience. Building and innovating is at the heart of who we are and what we do, we are constantly seeking to outperform our last great accomplishment, and we love good coffee.</p><p><br></p><p>It operates under several brands:</p><ul><li>Raqtan (raqtan.com) – the original brand, more than 40 years in the market, mostly serving enterprise customers (chain accounts) through dedicated sales teams in Dammam, Riyadh, Jeddah, and Dubai.</li><li>Ekuep (ekuep.com) – ecommerce marketplace for commercial kitchen equipment, targeting primarily SMEs, providing the best prices, unmatched selection, and the convenience of buying online.</li><li>Miran (miran.sa) – stainless steel factory, supporting our commercial kitchen projects, but also engineering new lines of products for the oil and gas industry.</li><li>Brodan (brodan.co) – our cooling and refrigeration brand, developing and manufacturing a full line of refrigeration products – from small refrigerated display cases to large, industrial cold rooms.</li><li>Spherey (spherey.com) – a mobile platform revolutionizing the way technical service is provided in the F&B industry, creating a marketplace for independent and freelance technicians. </li><li>Qavashop (qavashop.com) – ecommerce marketplace for high-end domestic coffee equipment and specialty coffee beans. Qavashop is the largest online store dedicated to providing home baristas and coffee enthusiasts with the best coffee and state of the art equipment for their home and office. Serving clients throughout Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, and Oman; <strong>our vision</strong> is to make it easy for coffee lovers to enjoy coffee anytime and anywhere. We represent some of the biggest coffee brands in the coffee world, making coffee an accessible hobby and way of life.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Qavashop mission:</strong></p><p>Bring the café experience home and we make coffee everyone’s hobby.</p><p><br></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>What we need:</strong></p><p>A Senior Category Manager who will lead the growth and maintenance of the assigned categories. The Senior Category Manager will be responsible for merchandising, developing offers and managing the purchasing and selling plans for multiple brands and working with other teams to plan the promotions, pricing, and content development for the category.</p><p><br></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>What you will do:</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Own the assigned categories as a business, including their strategy, direction and execution. Grow the product selection based on customer and market research.</li><li>Build and maintain strong relationships with vendors to enhance competitiveness of the assigned category. Lead negotiations with vendors, domestic and international, and facilitate discussion to drive significant top and bottom line results.</li><li>Ensure proper stock levels and prepare buying plans and sales forecasts</li><li>Stay on top of coffee industry trends to drive product selection, sales and customer experience.</li><li>Analyze data using multiple reporting systems, make informed data-driven decisions regarding pricing, product selection, promotions, etc</li><li>Develop and maintain control over quality of product detail pages, including description and other content</li><li>Participate actively in marketing activities, including the preparation of content. Develop and execute creative sales and promotional outputs.</li><li>Be the go-to person for any issue related to products in your assigned category</li><li>Maintain active communication with internal stakeholders and other departments, including Customer Experience, Marketing, Operations, Content and Supply Chain Management to improve overall customer experience on Qavashop</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Basic qualifications:</strong></p><ul><li>Desire to win and deliver outstanding results</li><li>Strong analytical skills; proficiency with Microsoft Excel</li><li>Good communication skills with partners/colleagues</li><li>Ability to deliver strong results in a fast-paced work environment</li><li>Strong attention to detail</li><li>Organized and process-oriented</li><li>Excellent writing skills in English</li><li>High computer literacy, with the ability to learn new systems quickly</li><li>Interest in the specialty coffee culture and following the national and the international coffee trends</li><li>Familiarity with marketing, traffic and conversion metrics</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Preferred qualifications:</strong></p><ul><li>High volume category management or procurement experience</li><li>Business development or product/brand management experience</li><li>Experience in communicating project objectives, status and performance metrics to key stakeholders</li><li>Experience in online eCommerce retail with a history of driving significant results</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>What you can expect:</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Very open, transparent culture where we value skills and commitment, and create great opportunities for our top talents</li><li>Startup-like vibes but at the same time well-funded, established, stable company</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong><u>Please take your time to provide thoughtful responses – these responses will be more important than your resume in deciding whether we invite you to a job interview.</u></strong></p><p>https://raqtan.typeform.com/to/U8ix3QuR</p>
