Job Purpose:
To assist in achieving the department sales, margin, other income and total commercial margin in order to support the company in achieving the sales and bottom line targets.

Key Accountabilities:

• Assists the Category/Assistant Category Manager in the negotiations of the annual supply agreements with the vendors as per the company guidelines. 
• In managing product categories, the Category Associate recommends the product categories to the Category manager as well as assisting him/her in implementing the category plan in line with sales budget and forecasts.
• Assists the category manager in negotiating and administrating the cost and retail prices setting (Product Margin).
• Assist the category manager in managing the total commercial margin by negotiating/follow-up the deals with the vendors and ensure the implementation.
• analyzes and follow-up with the vendors the product sourcing process and complete all the formalities. 
• Helps in managing the vendor relations by providing periodically feedback to the vendors on their performance.

Assists Category Manager in Promo Optimization process: 

• ·        Supplier Brief Communication 
•        Items’ Selection 
•         Promo Internal Communication
• ·        Forecasting
• ·        Signoff 
• ·        Post Promo Review and Action

Improves Category Availability through:

·        Setting MFQ & MDQ

Improves Category Footfall through:

Planogram implementation