Category Manager, Amazon Now SA
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About the Role
Amazon is seeking a Category Manager for its MENA Grocery team (Amazon Now SA) in Riyadh. This role involves building vendor relationships, managing category profitability, and driving strategic initiatives.
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Responsibilities
- Support Category leader to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities
- Build strategic partnerships, align and close vendor relationships and terms of trade
- Build the annual seasonal portfolio to drive continuous traffic and engagement
- Identify automation opportunities to improve selection, profitability, pricing, and availability
- Own the P&L for hitting top and bottom line targets and drive projects to improve profitability
- Define selection assortment and refine mix at dark store level to reduce shrinkage and improve CX
- Source deals during Tier 1/2 events to ensure value for Prime Customers
- Negotiate marketing funds from vendors for category visibility
- Prepare, pitch, and close Annual JBP
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience with Excel
- 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
- Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership
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Description
- Interested in working on an innovative and high impact business that is changing the way customers think about grocery?
- The MENA Grocery team (Amazon now SA) is offering a role to own building new business from ground zero.
- We are seeking a self starter who can quickly familiarize themselves with this fast paced environment.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Support Category leader to drive new strategic initiatives and business opportunities.
- Negotiations: Build strategic partnership, align and close vendor relationships and terms of trade.
- Build the annual seasonal portfolio to drive continuous traffic and engagement to the store front.
- Identify automation opportunities to offer scalable solutions, improve all key inputs metrics.
- Post launches, Own the P&L for hitting top and bottom line targets and drive projects to improve profitability.
- Define selection assortment, continuously refine the mix at dark store level to reduce shrinkage & improve CX.
- Source deals during Tier 1/2 events to ensure we continue to offer value to our Prime Customers.
- Negotiate marketing funds from vendors for category visibility during BAU/Events.
- Prepare, Pitch & close Annual JBP.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of with Excel experience.
- 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience.
- Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements.
- Knowledge of online retail (e commerce).
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