Category Manager (Electronics and Small Electronics) at Lorache Consulting Limited

Job Profile

• This job entails planning, coordinating, implementing and overseeing the sales strategies to boost business performance, across the mobile phone category.
• The key role is to develop category strategies, in line with the organizational Product strategy chart, while monitoring its implementation, and ensuring category growth and profitability.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a phones and mobile accessory category strategy, (broken down into achievable quarterly, monthly and weekly timelines), in line with the organizational Product strategy chart.
• Liaise with the Sales Team to propose and evaluate category-centric sales and advertising activities, across Offline and Online sales channels.
• Monitor category-specific business performance, traffic, and user trends to generate actionable category assortment insights.
• Leverage syndicated POS, E-commerce, and retail data to develop a deep understanding of the quickly moving and evolving category dynamics.
• Interpret data to deliver objective category insights, analysis, and thoughts that offer disruptive category growth opportunities.
• Be responsible for category-specific consumer experience.
• Partner with operations team to translate customer insights into strategies that drive performance.
• Led category management projects to optimize ranges and related merchandising.
• Manage a comprehensive portfolio of Phones & accessory category brands and OEMs; while developing appropriate strategies to ensure profitable partnerships, product sourcing, and profitability for the category.

Qualifications

• BA in Business Administration, marketing, or a similar relevant field degree in business administration
• 3-5 years’ work-related experience as a Category Manager in ICT & Supply chain industry.

Skills and Expertise:

• Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management
• Expertise in category management
• In-depth knowledge of marketing and sales operations and processes
• Analytical and critical thinker of Numbers
• A knack for negotiation and networking
• Working experience with ERP software
• Ability to ensure sell-out of products.