Category Manager

4 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa ADI Global Distribution Full time

Company: ADI

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Fully own two of the main product categories including: Video and Networking.
- Creating strategic plans for the product category, including growth and promotional programs to achieve budget objectives.
- Managing end-to-end vendor relationships, including identification, contract negotiation, product assortment, marketing programs, and communications.
- Growing the product category profitably in line with gross margin targets, while adhering to working capital and IOS (Inactive, Obsolete, Surplus) requirements.
- Work with ADI South African leadership team by clearly communicating new opportunities, new products or suppliers and resolve transactional issues as needed.
- Work with your supplier partners, ADI's marketing, sales and procurement teams to ensure effective product marketing and sales drive of your product category.
- Developing and executing on product mix, inventory, and pricing strategies based on historical data, industry trends and customer buying patterns.
- Be the product leader and SME assisting with the implementation of new ERP system.

YOU MUST HAVE
- Experience as a professional product/category manager OR buyer/merchant in retail, e-tail/catalog, distribution or similar environment.
- Product marketing/category management experience.
- Ability to provide strategic leadership, direction, and development.
- Ability to support field sales with special pricing, inventory positions, vendor relations, and product issues.
- Experience generating tactical and strategic category roadmaps and detailed plans including annual and 5-year plans.
- Ability to drive improvements in inventory management processes, including SIOP (Sales, Inventory, Operations, Planning), forecasting, and IOS (Inactive, Obsolete, Surplus).
- Experience developing and driving integrated growth programs across all sub-categories, using data mining and other tools to target appropriate customer segments.
- Ability to create reports and analyze data, adept at Excel, PowerPoint, Word.
- Ability to build large number of relationships with diverse groups.
- High level of critical thinking skills.

WE VALUE
- SAP knowledge preferred

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU
- Hybrid working model
- High degree of autonomy

LI-BDJ

At Resideo, we bring together diverse individuals to build the future of homes. Resideo is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.


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