• Application Deadline:
• Position: Category Manager


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 3 - 5 years


• Location Not specified


• Job Field Procurement / Store-keeping / Supply Chain 
  

Job Description

• The Category Manager – Fashion, is responsible for the purchasing, pricing, and oversight of all fashion products.


• Responsibilities include overseeing costs, pricing, and margins, tracking sales trends, competitive analysis, and the selection, pricing, and procurement of products for special orders and sales events.

Responsibilities

• Purchase and supply products in a manner that sells the most products and moves product inventory.


• Manage regular purchasing and maintenance of an open-to-buy plan in the Clothing and Footwear categories


• Select SKU-specific products from vendors to meet customer demand and maximize sales opportunities.


• Provide customer satisfaction by making it easy for customers to find items


• Determine the right product mix for the online store.


• Determine the type of individual products and the specific numbers that will sleet consumer demand, and identify a product that is of consumer interest.


• Compile ad summary reports arid managing in-store promotions.


• Penetrate accounts by actively listening, identifying customer needs and expectations, and utilizing total company offering to roost customer seeds from a category perspective.


• leverage customer industry, market, and competitive information to gain a competitive edge to drive states and profitable opportunities for categories.


• Ensure self and team members have active business plans that are cross-functionally aligned end routinely liven category reviews, and creative direction by utilizing appropriate negotiation techniques which guide customers to win-win results.


• Identify business challenges and opportunities to create direction and deliver quarterly results.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree With significant retail experience (ie Category Management Shopper Insights and/or sales experience.


• 3-5 years of experience as a Category Manager or similar role.


• Previous experience communicating complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels, both in writing and verbally.


• Strong knowledge of Category Management practices and tools,


• Proficiency working in Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint.


• Experience in delivering advanced insight with a variety of information streams beyond syndicated data.


• Supervisory/ managerial experience.

Competence / Skills:

• Ability to draw conclusions, address key opportunities understand and apply market


• research tools to create selling stories.


• Ability to work in conditions which include multiple and sometimes conflicting priorities


• Experience in delivering advanced insights with a variety of information streams beyond syndicated data


• Ensure self and team members have active business plans that are cross-functional aligned and routinely deliver category reviews.


• Create direction by utilizing appropriate negotiation techniques for customers to win-win results


• A selfless team player, yet goal-oriented and delivering on an individual capacity basis.