Category Manager - Video & Networking at Resideo

This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate that understands the South African security market, its competitive landscape and can translate business strategy into sales growth.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Fully own two of the main product categories including: Video and Networking.
• Creating strategic plans for the product category, including growth and promotional programs to achieve budget objectives.
• Managing end-to-end vendor relationships, including identification, contract negotiation, product assortment, marketing programs, and communications.
• Growing the product category profitably in line with gross margin targets, while adhering to working capital and IOS (Inactive, Obsolete, Surplus) requirements.
• Work with ADI South African leadership team by clearly communicating new opportunities, new products or suppliers and resolve transactional issues as needed.
• Work with your supplier partners, ADI's marketing, sales and procurement teams to ensure effective product marketing and sales drive of your product category.
• Developing and executing on product mix, inventory, and pricing strategies based on historical data, industry trends and customer buying patterns.
• Be the product leader and SME assisting with the implementation of new ERP system.

YOU MUST HAVE

• Experience as a professional product/category manager OR buyer/merchant in retail, e-tail/catalog, distribution or similar environment.
• Product marketing/category management experience.
• Ability to provide strategic leadership, direction, and development.
• Ability to support field sales with special pricing, inventory positions, vendor relations, and product issues.
• Experience generating tactical and strategic category roadmaps and detailed plans including annual and 5-year plans.
• Ability to drive improvements in inventory management processes, including SIOP (Sales, Inventory, Operations, Planning), forecasting, and IOS (Inactive, Obsolete, Surplus).
• Experience developing and driving integrated growth programs across all sub-categories, using data mining and other tools to target appropriate customer segments.
• Ability to create reports and analyze data, adept at Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
• Ability to build large number of relationships with diverse groups.
• High level of critical thinking skills.

WE VALUE

• SAP knowledge preferred