Category Manager - Fourways at Leroy Merlin

Description

Main responsibilities:

• Understanding of customer needs

  • Analyse market insights to determine industry and customer trends

  • Working knowledge of buying practices, retail environment 

  • Foster an engaging, interactive and satisfying relationship with customers 

• Buying of Products 

  • Based on the customer needs, identify suppliers for the products

  • Negotiate cost effective prices with vendors and suppliers

  • Ordering of products based of quality, convenience and price

  • Ensure product availability and accessibility

  • Assume responsibility of budget development and revenue for product category

  • Foster trust relationships with vendors and suppliers to achieve better prices and quality of products

• Visual Merchandising

  • Determine the positioning of a product category to maximise visibility

  • Planning and inventory control

• Sales contributions

  • Optimise sales for a range of products

  • Liaise with sales consultants to determine competitive prices and promotional activities of a product

  • Devise long term development strategies for product categories

  • Develop exit strategies for unsuccesful products

  • Collaborate with buyers and merchandisers to expand product categories

Requirements

• Profile

The successful candidate should have the following skills, experience and attributes:

• A degree in business administration or marketing related  
• Proven experience as a buyer, product or category manager in retail
• Solid knowledge of category management, marketing and sales principles
• Understanding of data analysis and forecasting methods
• Excellent communication and people skills
• Logical thinking with a strategic ability
• Curious and assumes initiative
• Ability to lead and influence
• Negotiation skills
• Relationship management
• Self-confident, hardworking and lives by example
• Team player who is also comfortable in working as an individual