Job Title: Category Manager – Fashion
Location: Nigeria
Job Description
- The Category Manager – Fashion, is responsible for the purchasing, pricing, and oversight of all fashion products.
- Responsibilities include overseeing costs, pricing, and margins, tracking sales trends, competitive analysis, and the selection, pricing, and procurement of products for special orders and sales events.
Responsibilities
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- Purchase and supply products in a manner that sells the most products and moves product inventory.
- Manage regular purchasing and maintenance of an open-to-buy plan in the Clothing and Footwear categories
- Select SKU-specific products from vendors to meet customer demand and maximize sales opportunities.
- Provide customer satisfaction by making it easy for customers to find items
- Determine the right product mix for the online store.
- Determine the type of individual products and the specific numbers that will sleet consumer demand, and identify a product that is of consumer interest.
- Compile ad summary reports arid managing in-store promotions.
- Penetrate accounts by actively listening, identifying customer needs and expectations, and utilizing total company offering to roost customer seeds from a category perspective.
- Leverage customer industry, market, and competitive information to gain a competitive edge to drive states and profitable opportunities for categories.
- Ensure self and team members have active business plans that are cross-functionally aligned end routinely liven category reviews, and creative direction by utilizing appropriate negotiation techniques which guide customers to win-win results.
- Identify business challenges and opportunities to create direction and deliver quarterly results.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of experience as a Category Manager or similar role.
- Bachelor’s Degree with significant retail experience (ie Category Management Shopper Insights and/or sales experience.
- Previous experience communicating complex and/or detailed information to multiple individuals/audiences with differing knowledge levels, both in writing and verbally.
- Strong knowledge of Category Management practices and tools,
- Proficiency working in Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience in delivering advanced insight with a variety of information streams beyond syndicated data.
- Supervisory/ managerial experience.
Competence / Skills:
- Ability to draw conclusions, address key opportunities understand and apply market
- Research tools to create selling stories.
- Ability to work in conditions which include multiple and sometimes conflicting priorities
- Experience in delivering advanced insights with a variety of information streams beyond syndicated data
- Ensure self and team members have active business plans that are cross-functional aligned and routinely deliver category reviews.
- Create direction by utilizing appropriate negotiation techniques for customers to win-win results
- A selfless team player, yet goal-oriented and delivering on an individual capacity basis.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
HOW TO APPLY
Interested and qualified candidates should send CV to: [email protected] with the subject captured as “Category Manager”
Job Features
Job Category | Manager |