Your responsibilities

Our Category Managers are the CEO-s of given categories who develop strategies for those categories (based on overall company commercial strategy) and execute them fully.

In this role you will need to develop a great assortment relevant to local customers based on the reverse pyramid, where we have the majority of SKUs/sales on the top level (reverse to normal retail).

You will cooperate with the local supplier pool to work on our price/promo competitiveness to both super markets and specialized stores and implement it on the web so customers will find their products easily and will come again.

You will also cooperate closely with the listing team, supply chain, marketing department (to tackle customers and new trends), operations (to keep our assortment effective) and finance (to keep our margins growing).

Your experience

You Would Be Successful If You Have

• Vision and strategy to be able to develop the category
• Ability to see the full picture - manage end to end processes
• Experience of collaboration with suppliers and other departments across the company;
• Experience in buying/category management;
• Focus on results, not on process;
• Flexibility in finding solutions and the drive to execute them;
• Native Romanian language & excellent English language skills;
  
  

and if you are a great negotiator and a food lover who seeks new trends.

Your performance will be assessed by a set of KPI’s typical for the position:

• Customer penetration
• Basket penetration
• Margin
• Shrink
• Inventory turnover (GMROII)