Job Description

COMPANY DESCRIPTION
As Singapore’s leading supermarket retail player and a household name close to all, we have grown with you over the years. It is now your turn to grow an exciting new career and fulfil your aspirations with us. Join us as we embark on a journey to make lives better for our customers, community, environment and employees. At NTUC FairPrice, we offer you more than just a job. We are committed in giving our employees a rewarding career through comprehensive development opportunities. We promise a wonderful workplace culture with ample opportunities for growth at different levels of your career. Every of our 10,000 employees across Singapore is important. If the prospect of working in an organization at the forefront of retail technology and innovation excites you, look no further. Grow your career with us today and make a difference. .
DESIGNATION : Category Manager / Executive

RESPONSIBILITIES
As the Category Manager, you will be responsible for the following:

• Responsible for the development and implementation of strategic plans for assigned categories within the framework of a disciplined category management business process so as to achieve company's financial goals and objectives, improve market share, customer satisfaction and productivity performance measures for the company.
• Achieve category sales, gross profit and income goals and objectives of assigned categories through monitoring trends within the market segments
• Developing strategies to grow the market share of assigned categories and to plan strategies to counter competition
• Develop and implement an optimum product mix that focuses on customers' needs
• Develop and implement promotional plans that bring excitement as well as incremental sales to the stores
• Develop and implement placement and planogram strategies that improve category turnover and positively influence customer shopping behaviour
• Develop and implement a competitive pricing strategy that delivers value to our customers
• Establish collaborative retailer/supplier relationships to maximise income/terms/discounts to improve sales and profitability
• Develop short , mid and long term plans to grow the assigned categories
• Working closely with Ops to provide necessary product trainings / briefings to equip ops team to have better product knowledge

• Diploma, Degree or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in FMCG
• Experience in the supermarket retail sector will be an added advantage
• Data-driven decision making
• Comfortable with numbers and strong data analysis skills
• System knowledge in SAP and Microsoft Office
• Able to work independently
• Motivated, meticulous and results oriented
• Resourceful and problem solver
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Team player and ability to collaborative and work effectively with a variety of stakeholders