Category Manager - Fashion & Lifestyle

Real Estate Souq; Dschanub al-Batina; Sur place; OMR 13 000 - 20 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Real Estate Souq in Oman seeks a seasoned fashion buying professional to lead seasonal collection architecture, optimize assortments by customer, category, and price point, and drive commercial outcomes.

You will source manufacturers, negotiate terms, collaborate with designers and planners on OTB and inventory, and own sell-through, markdowns, and stock turn to hit KPIs. GCC experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of fashion/lifestyle buying or category-management experience.
• Strong apparel/lifestyle merchandising background.
• GCC experience preferred; knowledge of OTB and sell-through.

Responsabilités

• Develop seasonal collection architecture by customer, gender, category, style, colour, size and price point.
• Define opening-price, core, premium and statement products.
• Build seasonal buying calendars and monitor GCC/Oman consumer trends.
• Source manufacturers, brands and suppliers locally and internationally.
• Negotiate cost, MOQ, lead times, payment terms and commercial support.
• Collaborate with Designer on product development, samples and approvals.
• Collaborate with Planner on OTB and seasonal inventory.
• Analyse sell-through by SKU/style/size/colour and identify repeat opportunities.
• Control markdown, broken sizes, seasonal ageing and exit strategies.
• Conduct competitor and price benchmarking.
• Own Sales, GP%, Margin, Sell-through and Stock Turn.
• Build exclusive/private-label opportunities.

Connaissances

Fashion buying

Category management

Merchandising

GCC experience

Description du poste

Scope: Men's fashion, women's fashion oversight, traditional wear, footwear, luggage, bags and accessories, cosmetics, health and beauty products

• Develop seasonal collection architecture by customer, gender, category, style, colour, size and price point.

• Define opening-price, core, premium and statement products.

• Build seasonal buying calendars and monitor GCC/Oman consumer trends.

• Source manufacturers, brands and suppliers locally and internationally.

• Negotiate cost, MOQ, lead times, payment terms and commercial support.

• Work with Designer on product development, samples and approvals.

• Work with Planner on OTB and seasonal inventory.

• Analyse sell-through by SKU/style/size/colour and identify repeat opportunities.

• Control markdown, broken sizes, seasonal ageing and exit strategies.

• Conduct competitor and price benchmarking.

• Own Sales, GP%, Margin, Sell-through and Stock Turn.

• Build exclusive/private-label opportunities.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Minimum 5 years of fashion/lifestyle buying or category-management experience.

• Strong apparel/lifestyle merchandising background.

• GCC experience preferred.

• Must understand OTB, seasonal buying, sell-through, markdown and size/colour planning.

• Strong product sense and commercial judgement.

• Own-brand/product-development experience highly desirable.

• Knowledge on Omani traditional life style wears highly desirable

Core KPIs

Sales GP% Full-price Sell-through Markdown % Stock Turn Seasonal Ageing Range Productivity OTB Adherence