Category Manager at Niiyo

Job Description

• Develop vendor database by promoting relationship with vendors
• Best deals negotiation and generation, develop maintain and manage vendors relationships, continuously generating vendors and adding new product lines to the site
• Purchase and supply products in a manner that amounts to optimum sales and push the products inventory
• Determine the right product mix for the online store with respect to the consumer demand and market sensitivity
• Leverage customer, industry, market and competitive information to gain a resultant competitive edge and profitable opportunities for category
• Design/Map Out structure that promotes active plans which are cross-functionally aligned to shoot for the marginal expansion of the category
• Identify business challenges and opportunities to create proactive direction and deliver results
• Identify products that are of consumer interest

Qualifications

• Minimum of B.Sc/HND with significant experience in retail and sales preferably e-commerce
• Prior and Good knowledge of category management, practices and tools
• Experience communicating detailed and complex information to multiple individuals/audience with different knowledge levels(verbal and writing)
• Supervisory/Managerial experience
• Prior experience/knowledge of dealing with vendor and(or) possession of existing vendor database would be an added advantage

Personal Skills:

• Good analytical mind, excellent communication skill and strong entrepreneurial spirit
• Selfless team player, goal oriented and delivery on an individual capacity basis
• Ability to work in conditions which include multiple and sometimes conflicting priorities
• Ability to "hit the ground running" a self-starter

Professional/Technical Skills:

• Create direction and headway by utilizing appropriate negotiation techniques.
• Proficiency in drawing conclusions, ability to address key opportunities, understand and apply market research tools to create selling stories.
• Experience in delivering advanced insights with a variety of information spanning beyond syndicated data
• Experience with retail/e-commerce taxonomy.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office tools, web-browsing, searching and navigation.