Category Manager- (Lighting Section)

Job Description

Role Purpose To strategically lead and manage the Lighting category and to play a pivotal role in driving growth, profitability, and overall success by implementing effective strategies, managing product assortments, fostering vendor relationships, and ensuring customer satisfaction within adopted Abyat policies and procedures.Roles & Responsibilities:Category Strategy Development

• Develop and implement a comprehensive Lighting category strategy, considering market trends, competitive landscape, and customer preferences.
• Conduct regular market research to identify new opportunities, emerging technologies, and potential risks, adjusting the strategy accordingly.
• Collaborate with the executive team to align the Lighting category strategy with the overall business objectives of Abyat.

Product Assortment Management

• Curate and manage a diverse and innovative product assortment within the Lighting category, ensuring a balance of high-quality and cost-effective products.
• Conduct regular product reviews and analysis to identify top-performing products, slow movers, and gaps in the assortment, taking corrective actions as needed.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal teams to introduce new and exclusive products, staying ahead of market trends.

Financial Analysis and Pricing

• Monitor the financial performance of the Lighting category, analyzing sales data, margins, and profitability to make informed decisions.
• Develop and implement pricing strategies to maximize revenue, considering market dynamics, competitor pricing, and customer sensitivity.
• Regularly review and adjust pricing structures based on market changes, cost fluctuations, and strategic objectives.

Collaborative Initiatives

• Work closely with the marketing team to plan and execute promotions, campaigns, and other marketing initiatives to increase category awareness and drive sales.
• Collaborate with sales teams to ensure effective communication of product features, benefits, and promotions, providing necessary training and support.
• Engage with the operations team to optimize inventory levels, minimize stockouts, and reduce excess or obsolete inventory within the Lighting category.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelors degree in marketing, management, electrical/industrial engineering
• MBA/masters degree is a plus.
• Proven experience of 5 years as a Category Manager or in a similar role within the Lighting industry.
• In-depth knowledge of lighting products, trends, and technologies.

Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.

Keyskills :
product reviews Pricing Strategies Category Manager market research

About Company

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear. Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer. Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®. To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up "The Greenhouse", which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Womens Empowerment Principles.