Category Manager (Jumia Mozambique)

The Category Manager is owner of his category and is playing a key role within the company, interacting with roughly all the departments and the top management.

Taking the lead on the category strategic orientation and the full responsibility of general merchandising profit & loss the category manager will have to bring an exceptional growth for the sales volume, the margin and the conversion rate. He will be responsible for the decisions he makes and will have to monitor his performance.

The Category Manager will be responsible for delivering a world-class customer experience thanks to the right assortment, a perfect online ergonomics, the best prices and the most innovative marketing campaigns.

Role

• Delivering a strategy for future growth by building the most pertinent assortment of products;
• Increasing the gross margin by being responsible for price position and asking the buyer teams to renegotiate the costs on strategic brands, categories and products;
• Meeting the main suppliers;
• Negotiate with brands;
• Building a very friendly user interface, working closely with the shop management and marketing teams – It includes the creation of banners, new filters, enhancing the category tree, selecting the products you want to see at the top of the page, etc;
• Establishing plans that will be presented to the top management on the strategic decision you make (which price point do we target for this category, which marketing strategy I want to implement, which products do I want to source, what will be the upcoming best sellers);
• Managing all the replenishment and inventory tools for stock monitoring;
• Creating weekly campaigns and coordinating with marketing to make sure the execution is done perfectly;
• As a whole, you have to identify and to promote the best sellers that will lead the market and strengthen Jumia as the leader of online retail.

Skills

• Fluent in Portuguese and English – spoken and written;
• Energetic, enthusiastic and dedicated personality with commercial background;
• Experience in sales will be considered as strong advantage;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
• Self-motivated, active, customer driven;
• Understanding the needs of the business and of the customer;
• Willingness to be a team player;
• Result-oriented with strong planning and organizational skills;
• Able to work under pressure;
• Able to undertake challenges and take the initiative;
• Good command of Microsoft Office applications.