Job purpose:
Responsible for revenue and budget achievement including P&L analysis and action planning for Groceries, Personal Care, Home Care, Chilled Products, Frozen Products & Beverages.
Key responsibilities:
- Strong Strategic planning experience within the respective FMCG Sector (DRY/DPH/OPSS/BEV).
- Ability to lead teams, motivate, develop, and retain team members.
- Passion for Retail is core to the company culture.
- Excellent interpersonal, leadership and communication skills.
- Embrace problem solving, developing, and finding real business solutions.
- Possess a can-do, positive attitude and enjoy working as a part of a dynamic team.
- Leadership of the commercial team, including recruitment and training
- Sales and JBP (Joint Business Planning) with main Supplier accounts
- Foster teamwork and a collaborative working environment across the whole organization
- Become a key MAT client liaison point developing productive relationships and collaborating extensively with the Commercial Development and Marketing teams.
- Proactively support commercial team to identify new business opportunities, if any opportunities for future work are identified, ensure these opportunities are communicated to a relevant senior colleague or the client if appropriate.
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in any field desirable, although not mandatory given relevant previous retail experience
- Minimum 10 years of relevant experience
- Outstanding knowledge and experience of Store Management and operations
- Outstanding understanding of business
- Excellent functional knowledge, leadership capabilities, emotional intelligence, proactivity & resourcefulness
- Outstanding alertness, communication skills, coordination skills, presentation skills & customer orientation
- Excellent strategic orientation & flexibility
- Very good accuracy
Job specific skills:
- Proven experience as category manager or similar role
- Solid Knowledge of category management, marketing and sales principles
- Understanding of data analysis and forecasting methods Proficient in MS Office
- Analytical mind with a strategic ability
- Excellent communication and people Skills
- Strong /Excellent Negotiation Skills