Noon - Category Manager - Private Label

Noon - Category Manager - Private Label

What is the role?

- At noon, we aspire to be the most customer-centric and relevant digital company in the region. To reach this goal, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people who love the hustle.

- If you'd like to help us build the place where everyone can find and buy anything online in the region, this is your chance to make history.

Key Job Responsibilities :

- Determines the buying requirements and formulates buying plan and budget for the assigned brand/category, based on the analysis of the historical trends and future forecasts

- Create buying plans to ensure profitability by maintaining and building consumer focused brand/category lines and managing SKU performance and efficiency

- Track and evaluate brand/category sales performance, market sales trends and competitor trading activities to identify critical business factors and proposed action plans to increase sales and profitability

- Consolidates and analyzes actual sales results to plan and forecast in-season sales/inventories on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis to drive sales, bottom-line profitability and inventory targets to meet or exceed financial goals

- Ensures identification of buying opportunities to source products and to ensure that business unit maintains its competitive edge by constant renegotiation

- Proactively drive sourcing activities in collaboration with stakeholders to complete procurement objectives.

- Strong category management skills which include conducting opportunity analysis, supplier competitive landscape, supplier selection, supplier management, process optimization and execution of agreements.

- Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to implement and manage effective supplier relationships, identify and implement opportunities/processes to influence improvement in service, quality, delivery, and cost and optimal payment terms.

- Evaluation of contracts to drive continuous value to business. Interface with Legal in reviewing and recommending changes to proposed contracts.

- Acts as a project lead as part of a team on various projects to ensure Procurement goals are met.

- Strive towards continuous vendor improvement and increasing the brand partnerships

Who will excel?

- The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fast-paced, multi-tasked, high energy environment. They will be a creative and analytical problem solver with a passion for delivering results.

- At noon we have courage to pursue what seems impossible, we work hard to get things done, we go great lengths to ensure that the experience of everyone from our customers, to our sellers or noon bandidos is stellar but above all we are grateful for the opportunities we have. If you feel the above values resonate with you you will enjoy this incredible journey with us!