Category Manager

3 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Isilumko Staffing Full time

Are you in the job market, and do you** **have FMCG experience (Worked in **Buying, Merchandising or Category Management **teams within FMCG with a basic understanding of how product ranging works)** **and are you **immediately available** to work a **three month contract** at an online food ordering company? Then this is for you, we have an exciting opportunity as a **Category Manager - New Verticals**

This online food ordering company is looking for a Category Manager who can have a direct impact on the success of New Verticals to ensure that our retail the best range across our merchants. The Category Manager will work on a project that is related with optimizing the menus for some of the largest partners in the grocery, convenience and liquor categories.

**Duties include**:
***
- **Menu creation & optimization**: You will create and optimize menu templates for our key categories which ensure that we have the best SKU range and can source the best pricing for the range:

- Grocery
- Liquor and
- Convenience
- You will also work with GS1 to ensure that all SKUs have consistent naming conventions and barcodes associated with them
- **Stakeholder and project management**: You will help in the project that implements these menu templates across our sales and onboarding processes
- **Operational Support**:Be the operational glue that holds together major team efforts for our menu optimization project
- **Menu ranging support**: You will do analysis and gather research to enable us to have the best SKU ranges across all our menu templates

**Requirements**:

- Excellent Excel capabilities
- Skilled at doing analysis on Excel and organizing data in a structured way using excel tools such as **Pivot tables**:

- FMCG experience: Worked in **Buying, Merchandising or Category Management **teams within FMCG with basic understanding of how product ranging works
- Superior organizational skills - organizing and planning are your jam
- Meticulous attention to detail - the little stuff doesn't get past you
- Strong communication skills and ability to interact with internal and external partners


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