Assistant Category Manager

talabat; Kuwait City; On-site; KWD 15,467 - 21,654; Full time

Job summary

talabat is searching for an Ast Category Manager to oversee category management for their Grocery Store tMart, focusing on optimizing assortments, pricing, and promotions. You will be responsible for market visits, supplier negotiations, and maintaining product availability, ensuring cost efficiency while meeting consumer needs.

The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in category management within large retailers, possess strong analytical and communication skills, and be fluent in English. Join us for an exciting opportunity to thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in category management for large retailers (FMCG).
• Ability to lead cross-functional projects at scale.
• Fluency in English is mandatory, Arabic is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage assortments, pricing, offers, and supply for the category.
• Implement commercial strategy and resolve supplier issues.
• Conduct market visits and ensure cost efficiency.

Skills

Experience in category management

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Detail-oriented

Job description

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

What s On Your Plate

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.