Category Manager – Amazon Now, Amazon Now

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

Job summary

Amazon Now in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Category Manager to own non-fresh categories for the Q-commerce service. You will collaborate with internal teams to ensure selection, pricing, promos, and activities drive growth, basket penetration, and margin objectives.

You will support the Category leader, manage vendor negotiations, refine assortment, and own P&L after launches to meet targets with a data-driven approach and cross-functional partnerships.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership.
• 5+ years in retail, operations, product, or program management with negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Support Category leader to drive new strategic initiatives.
• Identify optimum selection mix for top-line & bottom-line on Grocery/Non-Grocery.
• Define selection assortment and refine the mix to improve space utilization.
• Negotiate category marketing funds with vendors for category visibility.
• Collaborate with Ads and Retail teams to maximize visibility and conversions.
• Own the P&L after launches to hit top and bottom-line targets.

Skills

Financial analysis

P&L ownership

Negotiations

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

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

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

• – 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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