Asst. Manager/Manager, Category Management

Job Responsibilities

• Perform research on product trends and customer demand and develop strategies for new or updated products that could improve category’s overall performance. Also build partnerships in the industry to promote a category’s products while cutting costs and increasing product sales.
• Check inventory levels, procuring additional stock, and getting rid of excess or unwanted stock. Also handling product placement, optimizing storage, and creating regular reports on product availability.
• Monitor the performance of both individual products and their category overall. Involves using data to determine the best- and worst-performing products, creating profit and loss statements, and assessing performance against competitors. Using this information assess product and category strategies and develop solutions to improve performance.
• Considering performance, quality, and costs, seek vendors in the industry, request information, negotiate and use their criteria to choose the best suppliers to source category’s products. Negotiate contracts during the signing process and at the time of renewal.
• Work with cross-functional teams of marketing, Supply Chain and Warehouse and provide leadership to execute category’s strategies throughout the organization. Also inform team members of category and marketing, assign roles and responsibilities, and work together to drive performance.