Category Manager
Job Description
Lifemart is a unique grocery store ”near the house” with a restaurant-zone and express delivery service for 15 minutes, where 65-67% of the assortment is fresh-products.
Every day, kitchen-factories produce more than 200 varieties of ready-to-eat meals. On the same day they appear on store shelves. Our kitchen factories
use a modern packaging technology with nitrogen that keeps food fresh for 72 hours.
Products are selected on the basis of “best in each category”. 1,400 positions, 90% of Lifemart products under the private trade mark.
Now we are looking for category manager to work in Dubai.
Work tasks will include:
- Search, selection and evaluation of a supplier/manufacturer;
- Negotiating, contractual company, work on the establishment of products under private label;
- Formation of the assortment matrix and its optimization (work with the category, rotation) within the framework of the Company’s policy;
- Formation of pricing policy;
- Monitoring the fulfillment of contractual obligations;
- Sales control, measures to increase sales of the product category;
- Formation of commodity stock, control, turnover;
- Work with economic indicators, their analysis;
- Category analytics, reporting (planograms), analysis of the effectiveness of the use of retail space, abc-analysis;
- Market monitoring by category, analysis of the competitive environment;
Skills
- At least 2 years of experience as a buyer or similar position
- Work experience as a category manager, preferably in UAE;
- Experience in analyzing consumer preferences, demands;
- Food retail experience will be advantage
