Category Manager at Vendease

About Vendease
Vendease (YC W21) is an e-procurement platform that connects Hotels and Restaurants in Africa to Farms and Food Manufacturers. On the Vendease platform, food businesses can order all their supplies and get it within 24hours.
Vendease takes away the headache of logistics and allows businesses to buy now and pay later.
Available Positions

• Category Manager - Beverages
• Category Manager - Dry Goods
• Category Manager - Processed Goods

What You\'ll Do

• Responsible for the development, implementation, management, and performance of sourcing strategies within a given Category, to meet business goals and objectives
• Ability to analyse and develop accurate conclusions to support category decisions based on key data
• An understanding of the market and consumer insights and trends
• Strong people management and persuasion skills to manage and influence at all levels of the company
• Researches and benchmarks current commodity market conditions/trends, developing technologies, supply chain capacity/capability, product knowledge, customer requirements and supply/demand challenges.
• Commercial Awareness; ability to negotiate commercially successful deals with suppliers
• Demand forecasting and planning skills
• Driving for Results: Setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment; using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goals; tenaciously working to meet or exceed goals while deriving satisfaction from that achievement and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Proven work experience as a Category Manager.
• 5+ Years relevant experience
• Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement.
• Familiarity with vendor management and relevant software.
• Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships.
• Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data.
• Solid judgement with the ability to make good decisions.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, Slack , etc

Why should you join us?
We are a group of intelligent Ants constantly challenging ourselves to be the best in our industry. Being part of us is an opportunity to be part of a success story, grow an outstanding career and work in a friendly-environment where you can be yourself and thrive in your chosen career. Below are a few benefits we also offer at Vendease:

• Awesome work culture
• Competitive pay
• Remote work (Hybrid)
• Health Insurance
• A chance to be part of a part of a winning team

 Thank you for your interest in Vendease, we will review your application for the purpose of this role or any other role that suits your profile in the future.