Specialist Category Management - Private Label
Summary
Manages private-label grocery categories for an ecommerce retailer: sources produce, tracks pricing/competition, and runs promotions to optimize sales and margins.
What's On Your Plate?
Assists Category Manager in:
- Collect weekly price quotations from produce suppliers, compile data, and propose items allocations based on cost- supplier service levels
- Collecting retail audit from competition
- Generate daily/weekly availability performance, shrinkage, and sales reports to help drive category insights.
- Set up, launch, and activate promotional campaigns directly within the internal promo tool.
- Visit the central market and get update on new seasonal items available in market and decide on item selection
- Visit to tMart stores to monitor freshness and quality
- Work closely with the demand planners and the suppliers to ensure timely and efficient delivery of fresh food products.
- Working on admin related duties like updating price changes, rank change content update on the app etc
- Following up with suppliers on listings, pricing, product availability
- Any other ad hoc requests from the manager.
What Did We Order?
- You have at least 3+ years of experience in progressive development and management of multiple Private label categories, matured by working for large retailers (FMCG), in an international setting.
- You have technical knowledge that enables you to provide your manager with accurate information
- Has decent commercial knowledge such as profitability, margin calculations and feasibility and benchmarking knowledge.
- You are very detail-oriented, structured and know how to prioritize -- you consider yourself as someone who delivers solutions and not bottlenecks to be solved.