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Posted 2 years ago |
Job Title: Category Manager (Mobile)
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- This job entails planning, coordinating, implementing and overseeing the sales strategies to boost business performance, across the mobile phone category.
- The key role is to develop category strategies, in line with the organizational Product strategy chart, while monitoring its implementation, and ensuring category growth and profitability.
Job Functions / Responsibilities
- Develop a phones and mobile accessory category strategy, (broken down into achievable quarterly, monthly and weekly timelines), in line with the organizational Product strategy chart.
- Liaise with the Sales Team to propose and evaluate category-centric sales and advertising activities, across Offline and Online sales channels.
- Monitor category-specific business performance, traffic, and user trends to generate actionable category assortment insights.
- Leverage syndicated POS, E-commerce, and retail data to develop a deep understanding of the quickly moving and evolving category dynamics.
- Interpret data to deliver objective category insights, analysis, and thoughts that offer disruptive category growth opportunities.
- Be responsible for category-specific consumer experience.
- Partner with operations team to translate customer insights into strategies that drive performance.
- Led category management projects to optimize ranges and related merchandising.
- Manage a comprehensive portfolio of Phones & accessory category brands and OEMs; while developing appropriate strategies to ensure profitable partnerships, product sourcing, and profitability for the category.
Requirements / Qualifications
- BA in Business Administration, marketing, or a similar relevant field Degree in Business Administration
- 3-5 years work-related experience as a Category Manager in ICT & Supply chain industry.
- The successful candidate must be highly analytical, self-starting and thrive in a high energy environment.
- Sales and result oriented with ability to manage budgets
- Team player
- Experience in a retail or key account management environment with a proven track record of delivering results.
- Experience in category management is a strong plus.
- Strong communication skills and experience negotiating with internal and external stakeholders.
Skills and Expertise:
- Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management
- Expertise in category management
- In-depth knowledge of marketing and sales operations and processes
- Analytical and critical thinker of Numbers
- A knack for negotiation and networking
- Working experience with ERP software
- Ability to ensure sell-out of products.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Note: Only qualified candidates will be shortlisted.
Deadline: March 20, 2023
Job Features
Job Category | Manager |