Category Performance Manager

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa takealot.com Full time

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won't be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

**This role reports to the Sales Manager.**

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Category GMV - Seller pipeline: Maintain a target list of key brands and sellers both locally and internationally.
- Ensure health/retention of key category players
- Drive retention and growth of key lines by category
- Promotions: Ensure high availability of promotions on key lines by category
- Converting SKU's: Ensure liquidity of offers - Speed: Drive In-stock availability of key lines by category
- Catalogue quality: Maintain best in class catalogue quality metrics
- Relevance: Ensure depth of participation in category specific campaigns
- Discovery: Ensure category winning and up-and-coming lines are discoverable

**Skills required**:

- Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze category performance metrics and identify trends, opportunities, and challenges.
- Communication Skills: Ability to effectively communicate with various stakeholders, including account managers, promotions and merchandising team, and sellers.
- Negotiation Skills: Ability to negotiate with sellers to ensure the best terms for the marketplace.
- Project Management Skills: Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects at the same time, and to coordinate with various teams to ensure the successful implementation of promotions and campaigns.
- Knowledge: E-commerce Knowledge: Understanding of how e-commerce marketplaces work, including the dynamics of supply and demand, the importance of catalogue quality, and the role of promotions and campaigns.
- Category Knowledge: Deep understanding of the category they are managing, including the key brands and sellers, the key lines, and the market trends.
- Marketing Knowledge: Understanding of how to drive traffic and discovery, and how to create a robust pipeline of winning lines for marketing to call out.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and implement a strategic plan for the category, based on the performance metrics and the market trends.
- Problem Solving: Ability to identify and solve problems that might affect the performance of the category.
- Adaptability: Ability to adapt to changes in the market and to adjust the category strategy as needed.
- Attention to Detail: Ability to maintain high catalogue quality and to ensure the in-stock availability of key lines.

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- BComm or equivalent in commercial fields
- Postgraduate preferred
- 5 - 7 years' experience

**The Environment**:

- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an **Extra Ordinary Mind** who:

- is respectful but forthright
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours)
- is **passionate about the potential of e-commerce** and delivering a **world-class customer experience**:

- is **entrepreneurial**, **thrives under change** and accepts it is a constant and always **looks for solutions** to do something better and faster
- is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
- is curious and challenge the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- **thinks like an owner** of the business
- is **SMART, has INTEGRITY** and **is HARD WORKING**

If you meet the above you are an **Extraordinary Mind** so come and join us
- Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference._

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