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Job description / Role
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Category Planning:
- Planning and designing the Cosmetics category with focus on sub-categorization and range planning with an aim to ensure full assortment coverage with full availability
- Responsible for New suppliers and New Brands acquisition.
- Responsible for direct brand management & brand servicing
- Devising the category plan to achieve the defined targets within the specific timeframe
- Management of supplier and vendor networks, driving merchandizing, sales strategies and providing leadership direction to the category team
Cross function role:
- Responsible for leveraging synergies with other SBUs
- Responsible for ensuring cross functional support for the category
- Responsible for category's inclusion & representation in all the new cross functional project
Team Management:
- Overseeing the organization structure for the Category
- Responsible for training & up skill of the team members
Leadership:
- Responsible for showcasing strong leadership & intrapreneurial activities within the category
Requirements
- Seeking highly qualified candidates who are strategic thinkers and execution-oriented MBA Preferred.
- Between 2-4 years of work experience in the Middle-East Cosmetics Industry - Buying/Merchandizing/Planning/Business Management. This is Mandatory.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Experience of managing cross functional and multicultural teams
- Candidates must be entrepreneurial, intelligent, and self-motivated professionals
- Deep understanding of and passion for E-Commerce required
- Previous responsibility for strategic development, product management or product marketing, revenue targets and quotas is highly desirable
CORE COMPETENCIES
- Passion, Knowledge and network in the beauty industry in GCC.
- Data driven mind-set with intermediate knowledge of Analytics
- Logical thinker & a knack of breaking down complex problems
- Demonstrated intense customer focus & excellent skills in negotiation
- Ability to champion the growth of the category and envision the long-term strategy
- Demonstrated highest level of integrity, intellectual honesty, and strong work ethic
- Innovative & Pro-active with Leadership and strong management attributes
About the Company
Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.