Category Manager (Beauty)

Is this your next challenge in Category Management?

The challenge is to:

• Work with vendors to build mutually beneficial relationships to ensure long term strategic partnerships, leading to sales and market share growth, lower costs and higher margins.
• Work with vendors to build and implement best-in-class category plans including new brand or product launch plans, promotion plans and marketing plans.
• Work closely with the marketing team to develop attractive and exciting promotional events which follow pre-agreed selling plans.
• Collaborate with relevant teams for store layouts, promotions and display techniques are effective in maximizing sales and profitability for the category.
• Establish and maintain effective margin and price controls which enhance business profits whilst delivering a good value offer to the customer.
• Lead stock levels and mark-downs to ensure that product availability remains high and product lifecycle is optimally managed.
• Lead and develop a category management team, ensuring that they are customer and product focused at all times
  
  

Do you have experience in FMCG?

• University graduate or equivalent experience
• At least 7 years proven category management, key account management or own brand management in FMCG industry
• Self-motivated and possessing strong problem-solving skills
• Strong influencing, negotiation and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical thinking and possessing acute market sense
• Proficiency in English and Chinese
• Category management, key account management or own brand experience in health & beauty industry is preferred