Position: Fruit & Vegetable Category Manager

• Manage the fruit & vegetable category to increase sales and margins, and ensure profitability and targets are met
• Achieve key performance indicator targets: sales, gross margin, net margin, etc.
• Establish and coordinate the commercial relationships with the key suppliers
• Create new contacts with farmers
• Visit to farms, open markets and the fields to build up new opportunities and product variety
• Conduct systematic store visits to ensure the product quality, merchandising and the other tasks held
• Develop, organize and evaluate promotions according to the promotional calendar
• Manage stock levels and making decisions relating to ranging/product/price offering
• Develop business solution to present innovative ideas to improve the category indicators and appearance
• Develop and implement marketing strategies, promotions and key sales & marketing events for both existing and new products
• Work closely with store managers, promotions manager and suppliers to achieve the targets
• Track sales and inventory for all products and manage product inventory to avoid obsoletes, overstock and out of stocks
• Develop the category merchandising planograms for each store
• Other activities upon request

Requirements

• Degree in Economics, Math, Business Administration or related field, MBA is a plus
• Excellent interpersonal skills and effective influencing skills
• Commercial and financial acumen
• Proven ability to work on cross functional teams at all levels within organization
• At least 3 year of work experience in procurement, business management or related field;
• Leadership experience
• Writing and verbal communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of Armenian, Russian and English
• Computer literacy, excellent knowledge of MS Office
• Analytical and strategic problem solving skills
• Punctual and creative
• Willingness to travel to regions occasionally
• Ability to work under pressure