Category Manager at Niiyo Ecommerce

Niiyo is an online market mall. We are well determined not only be the best and largest on-line market mall in Nigeria, but also to be most consumer friendly and offer best to our customers at best price ever. We are lunching with thousands of products, and 35 product categories. Our unbeatable prices, free shipping, secure, easy payment and buyer protection guarantee will surely encourage millions of buyers.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Category Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Develop vendor database by promoting relationship with vendors
• Best deals negotiation and generation, develop maintain and manage vendors relationships, continuously generating vendors and adding new product lines to the site
• Purchase and supply products in a manner that amounts to optimum sales and push the products inventory
• Determine the right product mix for the online store with respect to the consumer demand and market sensitivity
• Leverage customer, industry, market and competitive information to gain a resultant competitive edge and profitable opportunities for category
• Design/Map Out structure that promotes active plans which are cross-functionally aligned to shoot for the marginal expansion of the category
• Identify business challenges and opportunities to create proactive direction and deliver results
• Identify products that are of consumer interest

Qualifications

• Minimum of B.SC/HND with significant experience in retail and sales preferably e-commerce
• Prior and Good knowledge of category management,practices and tools
• Experience communicating detailed and complex information to multiple individuals/audience with different knowledge levels(verbal and writing)
• Supervisory/Managerial experience
• Prior experience/knowledge of dealing with vendor and(or) possession of existing vendor database would be an added advantage

Personal Skills:

• Good analytical mind, excellent communication skill and strong entrepreneurial spirit
• Selfless team player, goal oriented and delivery on an individual capacity basis
• Ability to work in conditions which include multiple and sometimes conflicting priorities
• Ability to "hit the ground running" a self-starter

Professional/Technical Skills:

• Create direction and headway by utilizing appropriate negotiation techniques.
• Proficiency in drawing conclusions, ability to address key opportunities, understand and apply market research tools to create selling stories.
• Experience in delivering advanced insights with a variety of information spanning beyond syndicated data
• Experience with retail/e-commerce taxonomy.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office tools, web-browsing, searching and navigation.

Application Closing Date
29th May, 2015

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidate should send their CV's to: [email protected]