Senior Manager - Commercial
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About the Role
Majid Al Futtaim seeks a Senior Manager – Commercial to establish sourcing strategies, lead cross-functional strategic sourcing, and manage merchandising teams. The role involves negotiating with suppliers, defining category profitability, and managing assortment.
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Responsibilities
- Establish category sourcing strategies and lead cross functional strategic sourcing and merchandizing teams
- Manage and negotiate with suppliers to execute contracts and optimize opportunities
- Manage category suppliers to act as market intelligence provider regarding categories
- Drive category suppliers’ activities to mitigate risk, improve performance and add value
- Help develop long term country strategies and influence cross company project development
- Define country strategic merchandise and assortment through product
- Define and implement selection of assortment, definition of category profitability, and promotional national calendar
- Ensure online assortment matches offline assortment to provide similar customer experience
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in E Commerce or Business Administration
- Master’s degree in e commerce, supply chain is a plus
- 7 – 10 years of working experience in either category management or merchandise
- E commerce experience is required
- Leadership Skills
- Team Management
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Role Summary
- The Senior Manager – Commercial is responsible for establishing sourcing strategies, leading cross functional strategic sourcing and managing merchandizing teams.
- The role holder is responsible for managing and negotiating with suppliers to execute contracts and optimize opportunities.
- He/she is in charge of defining and implementing selection of assortment, definition of category profitability, and promotional national calendar.
ROLE PROFILE
- Establish category sourcing strategies, lead cross functional strategic sourcing and merchandizing teams.
- Manage and negotiate with suppliers to execute contracts and optimize opportunities.
- Manage category suppliers to act as a market intelligence provider regarding categories.
- Drive category suppliers’ activities to mitigate risk, improve performance and add value.
- Help develop long term country strategies and significantly influence cross company project development.
- Define country strategic merchandise and assortment through product.
- Define and implement selection of assortment, definition of category profitability, and promotional national calendar.
- Ensure online assortment and selection is available and matches the offline assortment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in E Commerce or Business Administration.
- Master’s degree in e commerce, supply chain is a plus.
- 7 – 10 years of working experience in either category management or merchandise.
- E commerce experience is required.
- Leadership Skills.
- Team Management.
What We Offer
- Work in a friendly environment with positive vibes.
- Work with over 45,000 diverse and talented colleagues.
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