Category Manager

About
YOUR MISSION

• Own the assortment onboarding process by providing partners with clear templates and detailed guidance on their usage.
• Review and refine new partners' assortment files before bringing them live, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Create and maintain the category tree, ensuring proper classification and seamless functionality across all stores.
• Conduct assortment gap analysis and competitor benchmarking, including tracking no-result searches and analyzing competitor offerings.
• Use SQL and BI tools (e.g. Looker) to analyze performance, build reports, and support data-driven decisions across assortment and conversion topics.
• Ensure high-potential and top-selling products are easily discoverable through search, categories, and personalized recommendations.
• Monitor product availability continuously, working with partners to reduce out-of-stock rates and improve replacement efficiency.
• Use conversion funnel analysis to identify missing or underperforming products and recommend optimizations.
• Collaborate with grocery partners to enhance product images, descriptions, and attributes, driving better engagement and conversion.
• Align assortment, pricing, and promotions with seasonal trends, local market preferences, and demand fluctuations.
• Regularly meet with partners’ category management teams (especially top partners) to review conversion rate and basket size trends.
• Expand and improve product selection by working closely with retail partners and introducing exclusive products, bundles, and promo-packs.
• Ensure the availability of niche and specialty items to cater to diverse customer needs and enhance the platform’s appeal.
• Conduct routine “Walk the Store” audits to identify errors or improvement opportunities.
• Manage and optimize catalog tools, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in product listings.

Qualifications
WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE RIDE

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in retail, e-commerce, or FMCG Category management.
• Experience with SQL and BI tools, with advanced proficiency in Looker considered a strong plus.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with exposure to senior partners and cross-functional teams.
• Experience in defining solutions to complex, strategic topics with a deeply analytical and data-driven approach to issues.
• Balance attention to detail with swift execution - we need to do things quickly, and we need to do them well.
• Full proficiency in English is required.
• Grittiness, never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and address something hands-on; you persevere when others fall away.

Work Conditions

• Top-notch private health insurance to keep you at your peak.
• Monthly Glovo credit to satisfy your cravings!
• Extra time off and the opportunity to work from anywhere for up to three weeks a year!
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Online therapy and wellbeing benefits to ensure your mental well-being.