Category Product Manager

Job description / Role

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Monitors and drives products' inventory for Raya Shop.com
• Ensures the right products are provided and allocated to Raya Shop.com
• Carries responsibility for maximizing the products' sales by supporting the local sales team
• Carries responsibility for handling products' inventory and monitoring the weekly sales
• Carries responsibility for weekly forecasting the products demand for customers
• Carries responsibility for setting all products' prices after conducting market surveys and aligning the cost and the GP per item
• Carries responsibility for preparing aging stock reports and negotiating with suppliers and dealers in order to solve the problem of any aging stock
• Carries responsibility for contacting and negotiating with the suppliers to substitute defected items with new ones
• Carries responsibility for the efficient management of monthly stock turnover
• Manages auto-replenishment system and purchase orders for various outside vendors
• Prepares sales inventory and sell-through rates reports to determine and ensure accurate and appropriate inventory levels
• Carries responsibility for all the reports and market surveys concerned with the availability of products in the market and with Raya's competitors
• Ensures application of procedures related to the marketing of the stock between Raya marketing team and the suppliers
• Sends promotional orders to customers through marketing campaigns
• Attends retail operations committee meetings to foster good communication and teamwork
• Performs other related duties

Skills

• Very good communication skills
• Very good negotiation skills
• Honesty
• Reliability
• Time management
• Awareness of the importance of the effect of the products' prices on the sales level per branch and the warehouse operations
• Awareness of product price updates and offers in the market
• Ability to solve any problems with the suppliers or arising problems concerning products availability
• Strong analytical skills

About the Company

Raya Holding for Financial Investments, a leading investment conglomerate, established in 1999 in Egypt with a vision to be a market leader and to grow into a solid financial conglomerate with multifaceted operations.

Headquarter located in Cairo, Egypt; Raya Holding is managing a diversified investment portfolio of 13 lines of business in the various industries of e-payment, information technology, contact center, smart buildings, consumer electronics, food and beverage, land transport, PET remanufacturing, automotive, FMCG and home appliances

Raya Holding is listed in the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) since 2005, while the company empowers more than 12,000 proficient employees, accommodating to a wide international customer base from offices based in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Poland, Nigeria and Tanzania.

Raya's Lines of Business include; Aman for e-payments, Aman for Financial Services, BariQ, Ostool, Raya Contact Center, Raya Foods, Raya Information Technology, Raya Food Trading, Raya Restaurants, Raya Smart Buildings, Raya Trade, Raya Auto and Haier - Raya Electric.