Category Analyst - Home, Beauty, Fashion - Jumia at Jumia Nigeria

Department: Commercial - Analysts

Job Objective

• The Category Analyst is the owner of the P&L of his managed categories. As part of his job, the Category Analyst will have to show a great expertise of his categories with a great knowledge of the dynamics of the market.
• The Category Analyst will be interacting mostly with Account Managers at Jumia.
• Responsible for defining the assortment strategy, ensuring that key products are always available with the best market prices.
• The Category Analyst will be working on identifying consumer insights in order to unlock growth.
• He will be responsible for defining and steering the promotional campaign covering his categories.
• Based on his expertise, the Category Analyst will also be the owner of allocating of the key sellers that are leading his category.

Responsibilities

• Steer the full P&L of the category
• Define assortment strategy
• Ensuring 100% availability of key products
• Develop deep consumer insights on the category through consumer focus groups
• Identifies key pain points and frictions from consumers and defines plans to eliminate them
• Knows all key players in this category and market share structure at region level
• Plan category related promotional events
• Revamp the ecosystem of tools and reports for account managers
• Helps steering the performance of key JBP
• Input specific Sales Force battles to the team

Required Qualification

• 2-3 years experience in a top-tier consulting firm, e-commerce company or investment bank
• Top 1% Business / Engineering Schools and Universities

We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment.
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world.
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures.