Category Manager - Beauty & Personal Care

Category Manager Beauty and Personal Care

Category Manager job description :

- We are looking for a Category Manager to join our team! As a Category Manager at our company, you will be responsible for managing an assigned group of Companies.

- You will be the one responsible for pricing, branding and promotion of that Category with the goal to optimize sales.

- Building strong relationships with all the vendors is extremely important for this role.

- Relationships with vendors, commercial mindset as well as understanding consumers' wants and needs and will also be part of your duties.

Category Manager duties and responsibilities :

- Research and analyze data and market insights

- Search for insights into consumer needs and wants

- Plan and implement long-term development strategies for product categories

- Design exit strategies for unsuccessful products

- Build and maintain long-term relationships with vendors

- Ensure product availability

- Strategize positioning of a product category in order to maximize its visibility

- Collaborate with the marketing team

- Research competitors and suggest appropriate pricing and promotional activities

- Work with customers and merchandisers and find new ways of expanding product categories

- Calculate forecasts for product demand trends

Category Manager requirements :

- Previous working experience as category manager for 5 years

- Expertise in category management

- In-depth knowledge of marketing and sales operations and processes

- Hands on experience with analyzing big data and making forecasts

- Analytical and critical thinker

- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills

- MBA marketing or similar relevant field