Job Description

The Category Manager will oversee a 500-SKU assortment, ensuring alignment with company principles and customer needs. The role focuses on building purchasing power, negotiating with suppliers for cost efficiency, maintaining quality standards, and developing private labels to drive profitability.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
You will:

• Negotiate all purchasing conditions like purchasing prices, payment days and other relevant terms & conditions like minimum order quantities.
• Suggests items to be added to his categories.
• Suggests items to drop from his categories.
• Decide on additional manufacturers to produce Private Labels.
• Perform regular quality tests, laboratory tests and tastings inside the company for the items in the category, especially before selecting a new item for the assortment.
• Act in accordance with the General Principles of Purchasing Policies.
• Clarify severe quality issues and suggest necessary actions.
• Follow up existing contracts with suppliers, and prior to the end of the duration he decides on new contracts.
• Inform the regions about important legal information or modifications, new purchasing conditions, packaging modifications.
• Decide on the volume by region, in case of shortages.
• Decide which supplier is in charge of deliveries to the different regions.
• Decide on laboratory tests for new and existing products.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Goal oriented, highly motivated, well organized, proactive, flexible and available to work in a fast-growing company. 
• Candidate must possess at least a Bachelor's Degree. 
• At least 5 years of working experience in Retail Merchandising, Purchasing, Brand and Product Management. 
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and the ability to quickly learn internal systems and processes.
• Willing to travel around the Philippines.

Work Set-up: Onsite

Work Location: Taytay, Rizal