Category Manager - Amazon Now, Amazon Now

Amazon; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce platform in Riyadh is seeking a Category Manager for its Amazon Now service to manage the non-fresh category. This role involves strategic collaboration across functions to optimize selection, pricing, and promotional activities, aimed at achieving growth and profitability targets. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in retail or program management and strong Excel and negotiation skills, contributing to enhancing customer value through effective category management.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Excel experience.
• 5+ years in retail, operations, or program management with negotiation experience.
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership.

Responsibilities

• Support Category leader for strategic initiatives.
• Own P&L for hitting targets.
• Collaborate with teams to enhance selection and pricing.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Negotiation skills

Financial analysis

Data management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Category Manager - Amazon Now

Job ID: 3139547 | Afaq Q Tech General Trading

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 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

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years with Excel experience
• 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

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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