UCMAS Academy
Purchasing & Category Manager – Retail Mall
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Job Description
- Develop and implement purchasing and category-management strategies aligned with the mall’s sales, profitability, and inventory objectives.
- Manage the complete purchasing cycle, including supplier sourcing, evaluation, negotiation, contracting, purchase-order issuance, and delivery follow-up.
- Identify and select reliable suppliers based on product quality, competitive pricing, product availability, delivery performance, and commercial terms.
- Negotiate purchase prices, payment terms, discounts, rebates, promotional support, compensation, penalties, and annual agreements.
- Prepare purchase orders based on sales forecasts, stock levels, consumption rates, supplier lead times, and approved purchasing budgets.
- Ensure continuous product availability while maintaining inventory levels within company-approved limits.
- Monitor fast-moving, slow-moving, ageing, and obsolete inventory and implement the necessary corrective actions.
- Follow up with suppliers to ensure that orders are delivered completely, accurately, and on time.
- Resolve delivery shortages, damaged products, quality issues, invoice discrepancies, and other supplier-related problems.
- Coordinate with the warehouse, receiving, sales, finance, and mall-management teams to ensure smooth and efficient purchasing operations.
- Ensure that received products comply with approved specifications, quality standards, purchase orders, and agreed quantities.
- Monitor product-receiving and inspection procedures and address any discrepancies or non-conforming products.
- Conduct regular market surveys and competitor analyses covering prices, product assortments, promotional activities, and market trends.
- Review product assortments and introduce new products and suppliers based on customer demand and market opportunities.
- Achieve monthly targets related to sales, gross margin, inventory turnover, rebates, cost savings, and supplier income.
- Plan and coordinate seasonal, monthly, and supplier-funded promotional campaigns.
- Review product pricing to maintain market competitiveness while achieving the required gross-profit margins.
- Evaluate supplier performance using KPIs such as delivery lead time, order-fill rate, product quality, pricing compliance, and response time.
- Review supplier contracts and ensure compliance with agreed prices, payment terms, discounts, specifications, and delivery conditions.
- Analyze purchasing and category data and prepare regular management reports covering purchasing volumes, stock availability, supplier performance, cost savings, profit margins, and inventory risks.
- Lead, supervise, and develop the purchasing team and assign responsibilities across the mall’s different product categories.
- Ensure that all purchasing activities comply with company policies, approved authority levels, and internal-control procedures.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.
- Over 15 years of relevant experience in purchasing and category management, including at least5 years in a managerial position.
- Proven professional experience in theretail sector is mandatory.
- Previous experience in thehousehold products and homeware sector is highly preferred, particularly within retail malls, hypermarkets, or retail-store chains.
- A strong supplier network and extensive knowledge of the local retail market.
- Excellent negotiation, contracting, pricing, supplier-sourcing, and supplier-management skills.
- Strong knowledge of product-quality inspection, receiving procedures, product specifications, and the handling of non-conforming deliveries.
- Excellent understanding of gross margins, inventory turnover, stock ageing, rebates, purchasing budgets, and cost-saving techniques.
- Strong analytical, planning, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and team-management capabilities.
- Advanced proficiency inMicrosoft Exceland good experience withERP systems.
- Experience withMicrosoft Dynamicsis preferred.
- Very good command of written and spoken English.
- Candidates residing in or near Obour City are preferred.
- Having a private car is preferred.
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Opportunity as "Purchasing & Category Manager – Retail Mall" at شركة رائدة located in العبور on a Full-Time basis, suited for Fresh Graduate candidates, within Marketing & Sales. Key details from listing: • Develop and implement purchasing and category-management strategies aligned with the mall’s sales, profitability, and inventory objectives. • Manage the…
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