Assistant Category Manager at Delivery Hero

Amman, Amman, Jordan -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

06 Oct, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

08 Jul, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Category Management, Pricing Strategy, Assortment Planning, Supplier Negotiation, FMCG, Financial Analysis, Promotional Planning, Stakeholder Management, Market Analysis, Supply Chain Management, Cross-functional Leadership, Analytical Skills

Industry

technology;Information and Internet

Description

Company Description Talabat is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. Job Description Role Summary We’re looking for a Ast Category Manager to join the team and focus on growing our own Grocery Store “tMart”, which is the region’s first cloud store concept offering 30-minutedelivery of groceries at hypermarket prices. The service has expanded rapidly across Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Egypt, Oman and Iraq! What is on your plate? Full Ownership over the category management role in terms of Assortments, Pricing, Offers and Supply. Responsible for monitoring economic performance of the assigned departments /categories across sales, gross margin, profit and loss and consistency with the company's commercial strategy. Ensuring proper implementation of the commercial strategy and strategic guidelines, including categories plan and pricing strategy. Providing input to the Ops team flows, adjacencies, tools and templates, fixtures, etc. Reviewing and resolving any issues with local suppliers. Assortment: Ensuring cost efficiency across our consumers that meets their needs/wants. Defining and maintaining the local assortment and integrating the basic assortment for the department/categories. Providing regional teams with information regarding products and quantities needed for international and regional contracts. Selecting local suppliers, negotiating and purchasing in line with expected needs guided by standards such as cost price, discounts, rebates, payment terms, discounts, etc. Price: Pricing the items based on pricing guidelines and recommended prices for PL/Imported items. Collecting market prices and conducting country price audits. Promos: Identifying local promo products and pricing each item and submitting forecasting/relevant reordering information to replenishment. Developing the country promotion calendar. Following up and ensuring effective execution of all activities required for each promotional event. Analyzing and providing inputs for more effective promotional activities such as consumer preferences, local competitors and trends. Defining and maintaining the local assortment and integrating the basic assortment for the department/categories. Providing regional teams with information regarding products and quantities needed for international and regional contracts. Selecting local suppliers, negotiating and purchasing in line with expected needs guided by standards such as cost price, discounts, rebates, payment terms, discounts, etc. Regular market visits to check the assortment available in the country and pushing our suppliers to source them for us. Price: Pricing the items based on Ministry pricing guidelines of Fruits & Vegetables on a daily basis. Collecting market prices and conducting country price audits. Promos: Identifying local promo products and pricing each item and submitting forecasting/relevant reordering information to replenishment. Developing the country promotion calendar. Following up and ensuring effective execution of all activities required for each promotional event. Analyzing and providing inputs for more effective promotional activities such as consumer preferences, local competitors and trends. Quality: Regular Tmart Stores visits to ensure the quality of Fruits & Veg provided by our suppliers is as per our requirement and SOP. Qualifications What Did We Order? You have at least 5+ years of experience in progressive development and management of multiple product categories, matured by working for large retailers (FMCG), in an international setting. You have built teams and led cross-functional projects at scale. You are very detail-oriented, and structured and know how to prioritize -- you consider yourself as someone who delivers solutions and not bottlenecks to be solved. You are willing to do anything necessary for the project to succeed, including working on the warehouse floor when you are short-staffed to make a customer delivery, or to take customer calls. No job is too insignificant, no detail is too small for you. You can interact with senior-level executives and can manage the expectations of multiple stakeholders. You are someone energized by the unknown and look forward to learning each day on the job. You have excellent analytical and communication skills and always like to be hands-on with several tools. You have excellent analytical and communication skills and always like to be hands-on with several tools. Additionally, you have robust interpersonal and intercultural skills. You can inspire several teams and stakeholders to rally behind a mission. Language skills: Fluent in English mandatory & Arabic can be a plus

Responsibilities

Manage the full lifecycle of product categories for tMart, including assortment, pricing, and promotional strategies. Monitor economic performance across sales and margins while managing local supplier relationships and ensuring product quality.