Category Manager - Amazon Now, Amazon Now

Afaq Q Tech General Trading; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading trading company in Riyadh seeks a Category Manager for Amazon Now to handle non-fresh categories. This role involves collaboration across various Amazon functions to ensure optimal selection, pricing, and promotions while achieving growth and profitability targets. The ideal candidate has over 5 years in retail or operations, strong Excel skills, and experience in vendor negotiations and financial analysis. Join a diverse culture dedicated to delivering excellent customer results.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with Excel.
• 5+ years in retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting.
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership.
• Managing large data sets and utilizing them for performance improvements.
• Experience in vendor negotiations and pricing.

Responsibilities

• Support Category leader to drive strategic initiatives.
• Work with Retail Category Leaders on optimum selection mix.
• Identify automation opportunities to improve key input metrics.
• Own P&L for profitability and drive projects with stakeholders.
• Define and refine selection assortment to optimize space utilization.
• Collaborate with retail teams for content quality.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Negotiation skills

Vendor management

Financial analysis

Operational management

Education

Bachelor's degree or 3+ years of professional/military experience

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 input 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 UFG ask is part of Annual Retail JBP for common vendors.
• Collaborate with Ads team to ensure UFG gets a fair share of Brand Ads investment.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with Excel.
• 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience.
• Bachelor's degree, or 3+ years of professional or military experience.
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership.
• Experience managing large data sets and utilizing them to drive performance and process improvements.
• Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development.

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