Category Manager - Food & Beverages

Job description / Role

Responsibilities:
- Partner with the commercial teams to review performance and advise on areas of opportunity.
- Create a seasonal range plan of ideal category, subcategory and item mix to create an optimum assortment to deliver budget.
- Check, update and maintain store grading and clustering.
- Assist and share knowledge of product performance with customers within the Emerging Markets cluster.
- Plan and build new store stock packages.
- Define depth of assortment in accordance to sales plans.
- Ensure the integrity of each category is maintained, and that the selection of styles represents the desired pricing strategy and metal mix.
- Manage the product life cycle, planning discontinuations and stock clearance.
- Provide robust current and historical analysis of the categories to drive strategic decisions and to provide context for the longer term direction of the brand.

Requirements

- Must have at least 4 years of experience in food & beverage or hospitality business in Dubai
- Demonstrate management of a multi-stakeholder environment to achieve the desired results
- Manage concessionaires at account manager level
- Initiate and deliver innovative results
- Translate customer trends and insights into concessionaire business plans and future developments.

About the Company

Robert Walters is one of the world's largest specialist professional recruitment consultancies with 53 offices spanning 24 countries.

We've helped thousands of professionals find permanent, contract and interim roles with leading global corporations, small to medium sized companies and innovative start ups. Our specialist recruitment focus includes: accountancy and finance, banking, engineering, operations, legal, IT, sales, marketing, procurement & logistics, HR and support/administration.