Job Title: Category Manager
Company: Konga Online Limited
Location: Lagos
Job description:
• Purchase and supply products in a manner that sells the most products and move product inventory.
• 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 meet consumer demand.
• Identify product that is of consumer interest.
• Compiling and summary reports and managing in store promotions.
• Penetrate account by actively listening, identifying customer needs and expectations and utilizing total company offering to meet customer needs from a category perspective.
• Leverage customer, industry, market and competitive information to gain a competitive edge to drive sales and profitable opportunities for category.
• Ensure self and team members have active business plans that are cross functionally aligned and routinely deliver category reviews.
• Create 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.
Job Qualification:
• Bachelor's Degree with significant retail experience, MBA also preferred (i.e. Category Management, Shopper Insights and/or sales experience.
• 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 insights 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 insight with a variety of information streams beyond syndicated data.
• Ensure self and team members have active business plans that are cross-functionally aligned and routinely deliver category reviews.
• Create direction by utilizing appropriate negotiation techniques which guide customers to win-win results.
• A selfless team player, yet goal oriented and delivering on an individual capacity basis.
Deadline: 22nd January, 2013
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