JOB PRIMARY and KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILTIES

• Responsible to build and execute a strategy to grow market share and profitability across a set of the Category and contribute to the growth of the business and team.
• Responsible to execute a comprehensive online merchandising strategy and able to analyze category performance and react to company and industry sales trends; able to execute multiple projects and the ability to plan and organize.
• Responsible to optimize storefronts and category pages to maximize conversion with understanding of the complexities and unique growth opportunities in ecommerce.
• Responsible to attain sales and profit targets, achieved through new vendors, products and promotions etc.
• Onboard local Sellers in to blink marketplace platform

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage and develop the category.
• Obtain new Sellers, maintaining and develop the relations with existing Sellers.
• Source new and special products at the best cost, payment terms and return terms and margin
• Maintain blink price leadership in all aspects.
• Prepare weekly campaign in coordination with digital marketing and VP.
• Manage inventory efficiently in coordination with accounting and finance, warehouse, and digital content.
• Analyze and root cause analysis the slow moving and aging inventory.
• Develop and implement category strategy to achieve revenue and profitability goals.
• Build strong relationships with existing suppliers and execute negotiations to secure best pricing, sales programs, and promotional support.
• Build strong relationship
• Advance catalog expansion, including the identification of selection gaps, the prioritization of new item production, and the development of relationships with new, target suppliers.
• Collaborate across functions to drive business goals (including Marketing, Sales, Business Development and Operations).
• Analyze data to strategize profit growth opportunities for the category and for specific supplier partners.
• Partner closely with merchants to develop and enhance our brands, site, and competitive positioning.
• Analyze competitors marketing, selection and pricing and make strategic changes and product scouting as needed.
• Maintain industry expertise; keep abreast of trends and new product ideas
• Perform other duties as instructed which contribute to the effective management of the company.
• Discover, develop, train and mentor the employees has a potential for promotion.
• Deal with staff issues such as interviewing potential staff, conducting appraisals and performance reviews, as well as.
• Observe and upholds extremely high safety and quality standards.
• Attend and/or conduct seminars, training and workshops as per the company requirement.
• Cultivate smooth interpersonal relationship with colleagues, management and customers.
• Maintain profitability of category
• Uploading weekly Arabia file with right cost margin , the data
• Prepare all campaign products data
• Ensure product content accuracy 100%

• lead the translation tasks and work with CS closely
• ensure the product category mapping is accurate 100%
• build and manage cross sell & upsell products and category across Blink brands
• Make sure all our inventory is live in the Apps
• Achieving the monthly set target
• Manage the content team
• Ownership of the category P&L.
• Monitor the margin monthly/weekly
• Monitor the best seller price leadership vs competitions
• Monitor competition promotions and insure price leadership for the best seller
• Manager suppliers performance with 99% order fulfillment in max 2 business days
• Analyse the category performance daily/weekly/ monthly etc

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Fluency in English /Arabic writing, speaking and listening skills.
• Excellent skills in Excel (Outstanding date manipulation skills, sorting, filtering, v-lookup, macros and other advanced excel functions)
• Enthusiastic and team player with a positive attitude.
• BS/MS degree in management or a related field.
• With 3-5 years of relevant experience, preferably in management consulting, category management ecommerce or retail environment within UAE
• Proven working experience in e-commerce category management.
• Demonstrated experience building a business or delivering against aggressive targets & goals in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment.
• Senior presence; able to clearly and consistently work side-by-side with a broad range of seniorities and functions to achieve objectives.
• Articulate, persuasive communicator with excellent negotiations and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to hit the ground running a confident, entrepreneurial self-starter.
• Ability to manage and prioritize projects, and to delegate tasks appropriately.
• Innovative problem-solving skills dissect and determine root causes of problems, and implement solutions.
• Experience in business and data analytics.
• Proven track record of taking ownership and driving results.
• Process oriented, with a tireless focus on quality of output and throughput.
• Passion for ecommerce is a plus
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven thinking.
• Has commercial awareness.
• Enthusiastic, team player and with a positive attitude.
• People Oriented.