Category Manager - Food

Category Manager -Food

- A person should have good experience in category management and responsible for Profit & loss responsibility.

- Develop product line with differentiation on product with higher ASP, Margin and Premiumization.

- Develops the strategy, directs the development and implementation of company's product portfolio

- Deliver the new product revenue goals set by the organization

- Devise long-term development strategies for product categories

- Develop exit strategies for unsuccessful products

- Set strategic business development plan for maximizing top line and bottom-line for the business/Category

- Analyze data or insights to determine industry and consumer trends

- Develop and execute optimal category strategy, pricing, promotion, range, availability and cost prices to expand both sales and margins.

- Work closely with distributor and key retail trade partners to test and implement category management principles at retail.

- Drive business growth and share of the category, and own all aspects of day to day activities.

- Negotiate Terms of trade, monitor the sales, contribution and key metrics of performance and take corrective actions, if any required.

- Closely monitor inventory and develop a review system to ensure that order fulfillments is never affected due to shortage of inventory within defined NWC budgets/days.

- Drive product penetration and sale volume among customers through innovative campaigns and programs by leveraging data science

- Own end to end P&L

- Explore new clusters for strategic sourcing