Category Manager at Konga Online Shopping Limited

Job Description

• The Category Manager – Fashion, is responsible for the purchasing, pricing, and oversight of all fashion products.
• Responsibilities include overseeing costs, pricing, and margins, tracking sales trends, competitive analysis, and the selection, pricing, and procurement of products for special orders and sales events.

Responsibilities

• Purchase and supply products in a manner that sells the most products and moves product inventory.
• Manage regular purchasing and maintenance of an open-to-buy plan in the Clothing and Footwear categories
• Select SKU-specific products from vendors to meet customer demand and maximize sales opportunities.
• Provide customer satisfaction by making it easy for customers to find items
• Determine the right product mix for the online store.
• Determine the type of individual products and the specific numbers that will sleet consumer demand, and identify a product that is of consumer interest.
• Compile ad summary reports arid managing in-store promotions.
• Penetrate accounts by actively listening, identifying customer needs and expectations, and utilizing total company offering to roost customer seeds from a category perspective.
• leverage customer industry, market, and competitive information to gain a competitive edge to drive states and profitable opportunities for categories.
• Ensure self and team members have active business plans that are cross-functionally aligned end routinely liven category reviews, and creative direction by utilizing appropriate negotiation techniques which guide customers to win-win results.
• Identify business challenges and opportunities to create direction and deliver quarterly results.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree With significant retail experience (ie Category Management Shopper Insights and/or sales experience.
• 3-5 years of experience as a Category Manager or similar role.
• Previous experience communicating complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels, both in writing and verbally.
• Strong knowledge of Category Management practices and tools,
• Proficiency working in Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience in delivering advanced insight with a variety of information streams beyond syndicated data.
• Supervisory/ managerial experience.

Competence / Skills:

• Ability to draw conclusions, address key opportunities understand and apply market
• research tools to create selling stories.
• Ability to work in conditions which include multiple and sometimes conflicting priorities
• Experience in delivering advanced insights with a variety of information streams beyond syndicated data
• Ensure self and team members have active business plans that are cross-functional aligned and routinely deliver category reviews.
• Create direction by utilizing appropriate negotiation techniques for customers to win-win results
• A selfless team player, yet goal-oriented and delivering on an individual capacity basis.