Assistant Category Manager, Amazon Now

Afaq Q Tech General Trading (Amazon); Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Riyadh is seeking a proactive leader to own a new category in the MENA Grocery team (UFG). You will build vendor relationships, drive sourcing, manage profitability, optimize pricing, and collaborate with Marketing, Marketplace, Legal, and Supply Chain to deliver a world-class customer experience.

You will influence stakeholders, develop an end-to-end engagement model, and deliver strategic initiatives with strong analytics and clear documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• 1+ years in account management, project or program management or buying experience.
• Experience using Excel and other business analytic tools.

Responsibilities

• Support Category leaders to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities.
• Negotiate and build strategic partnerships, align vendor terms of trade and contracts.
• Build the annual seasonal portfolio to drive traffic and engagement.
• Identify automation opportunities to improve key metrics (Selection, profitability, Pricing, Availability).
• Own the P&L post-launch to hit top and bottom-line targets and drive profitability.
• Define selection assortment and refine mix to reduce shrinkage and improve CX.

Skills

Account management

Project management

Negotiation

Excel

Business analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Excel

SQL

HTML

Job description

Description

Interested in working on an innovative and high-impact business that is changing the way customers think about grocery? The MENA Grocery team (UFG) is offering a role to own building new business from ground Zero. We are seeking a self-starter who can quickly familiarize themselves with this fast-paced environment, build relationships/trust with cross-functional teams, and assume ownership within the program which will require understanding of complex business/Tech/Ops processes at Amazon and our partners and devising an optimal engagement model. You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. High judgment, analytical talent and good document writing skills with concise communication are essential to success in this role.

In this role, You will influence internal and external stakeholders and leadership to buy in to your strategic direction, build a buying and sourcing strategy for a new category while ensuring flawless execution and continuously analyzing key metrics to drive improvements for your business.

The SVM will be responsible for building relationships with vendors, adding selection, managing category profitability, optimizing pricing, and developing their team. The best candidate will have a broad skill set including leadership development, analytical horsepower, excellent business judgment, strong vendor management and negotiations skills, deep curiosity about how things work, and a passion for creating a world class shopping experience for our customers. The position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast paced, highly demanding and ambiguous environment.

The successful candidate would possess great business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery, commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally, this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).

The position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast paced, highly demanding and ambiguous environment. The successful candidate would possess great business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery, commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally, this position involves working with multiple stakeholders (marketing, marketplace, legal, supply chain, operations among others).

Key job responsibilities

• Support Category leaders to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities
• Negotiate and build strategic partnership, align and close an end to end vendor relationship and terms of trade, operating model contracts from long shelf-life Fresh fruits and vegetables vendors
• Build the annual seasonal portfolio to drive continuous traffic and engagement to the store-front
• Identify automation opportunities to offer scalable solutions, improve all key inputs metrics such as Selection, profitability, Pricing, Availability
• Post launches, Own the P&L for hitting top and bottom-line targets and drive projects to improve profitability with critical stakeholders (Vendor, Ops, Advertising)
• Define selection assortment, continuously refine the mix at dark store level to reduce shrinkage & improve CX
• Source deals during Tier 1/2 events to ensure we continue to offer value to our Prime Customers
• Negotiate marketing funds from vendors for category visibility during BAU/Events.
• Prepare, Pitch & close Annual JBP.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 1+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
• Experience using Excel and other business analytic tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with software and editing tools (including HTML, Excel and SQL)
• Experience in online retail
• Experience using analytical specific tools such as Google Analytics, SQL or HTML

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