Category Executive (Assistant Brand Manager) – Jewellery & Accessories

Job Purpose: 

Reporting to Category Manager – Women, your core job is to identify and understand insights that shapes the buyer behavior, aiming to continuously develop and enhance point-of-purchase plans driving growth within your category. Looking at category freshness, brand acquisitions and product performance, your aim is to ensure your category’s profitability is optimum at all times.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and approach key players (sellers) and onboard them to BRANTU’s portfolio in accordance to company guidelines
• Focus on Category Sell through & Top and bottom-line target achievement with ownership of the MOM revenue target achievements within your assigned Category
• End-to-end planning and execution of brand and collection launches
• Identify factors influencing the profitability of assigned category and brands
• Analyzing seasonal performances and plan seasonal category mix for each brand & manage inventory with target DOH
• Perform qualitative & quantitative periodical comparisons identifying trends and learnings for continuous improvement and management reporting
• Working with visual merchandise, ensure optimum visibility in order to achieve targeted sales for owned categories
• Conduct category gap analysis against trends and competition and opportunities and unaddressed consumer segments for management reporting
• Work closely with Category Demand to maintain stock cover of fast-moving products through an efficient stock replenishment cycle
• Build strong relationships with sellers and brand suppliers through periodic meetings, communicating updates and engaging them in BRANTU’s marketing activity

To be successful in this role, you should hold:

• Bachelor’s Degree within Business, Marketing, Finance or a related discipline
• 2-6 years of experience vendor acquisition and relationship management in an e-com platform, retailer, or agencies with particular focus Jewellery and Accessories
• Advanced communication skills, English and Arabic
• Ability to interpret and analyse financial data
• Sales and Business Development skills