Category Manager - Amazon Now, Amazon Now

Afaq Q Tech General Trading; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Afaq Q Tech General Trading seeks a Category Manager for Amazon Now in the Saudi market to lead non-fresh category strategy and cross-functional collaboration. You will ensure optimal selection, pricing, and promos while driving growth, basket penetration, and margin objectives.

The role requires collaboration with internal stakeholders, strong data-driven decision making, and a track record in negotiations and P&L ownership to deliver results for Prime customers and partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership.
• 5+ years in retail, operations, product/program management, or related with negotiations and delivering results.
• Experience managing large data sets to drive performance and improvements.
• Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing, promotions, inventory management, and product development.

Responsibilities

• Support Category leader to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities for the organization.
• Work with Retail PF/Category Leaders to identify optimum selection mix to drive top-line & bottom-line on Grocery / Non-Grocery portfolio
• 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 to improve space utilization
• Engage with Retail team to source deals during Tier 1 & Tier 2 events to ensure we continue to offer value to our Prime Customers
• Collaborate with retail category teams to ensure content quality is best in class to improve conversion
• Negotiate category marketing funds from vendors (via retail category team) for category visibility during BAU/Events.
• Partner with Retail Category team to ensure ask is part of Annual Retail JBP for common vendors
• Collaborate with Ads team to ensure Amazon gets a fair share of Brand Ads investment.

Skills

Financial analysis

P&L ownership

Data analysis

Negotiations

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

As a category manager for Amazon Now, this role will handle the non-fresh category for Amazon's recent Q-commerce service, Amazon Now. This role will be responsible to collaborate internally with all Amazon functions and ensure we have the right selection, prices, promos, activities for q-commerce while delivering on growth, basket penetration, and margin objectives.

Key job responsibilities

• Support Category leader to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities for the organization
• Work with Retail PF/Category Leaders to identify optimum selection mix to drive top-line & bottom-line on Grocery / Non-Grocery portfolio
• 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 to improve space utilization
• Engage with Retail team to source deals during Tier 1 & Tier 2 events to ensure we continue to offer value to our Prime Customers
• Collaborate with retail category teams to ensure content quality is best in class to improve conversion
• Negotiate category marketing funds from vendors (via retail category team) for category visibility during BAU/Events.
• Partner with Retail Category team to ensure ask is part of Annual Retail JBP for common vendors
• Collaborate with Ads team to ensure Amazon gets a fair share of Brand Ads investment

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership
• 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
• Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements
• Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development

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