Category officer - Food and Coffee

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The Head Hunter Group is an innovative Staffing and Recruiting Company with headquarters in the USA, Dover, Delaware, operating in Canada, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Cyprus, Greece and Bulgaria. We offer the newest mentality in Staffing industry and our core business are Candidates and Clients.

For our client, well established international group, we are looking for:

• Organizes the food category portfolio at EKO Mini Markets and coffee business in accordance with business plan and strategy of the company and with the best category management practice;
• Participates in the annual plan creation for the food portfolio and coffee offer and develops plans for implementation;
• Ensures the achievement of the objectives of the Company in terms of the food category and coffee business;
• Monitors coffee concept implementation and participates in tailor made adjustments needed on network;
• Proposes adequate report dashboards for the category movement monitoring;
• Uses available tools (eg. market reports, planograms software) for planning the process of facts based negotiations;
• Contributes in setting and achieving targets for the NFR marketing income for the relevant portfolio;
• Coordinating with the marketing department and suppliers in regards to marketing communication of agreed promotions on POS materials;
• Preparing food category and café offer activities annual plan;
• Develops and maintains contact with suppliers of non-food products in the local market and negotiates the supply of their goods at the best possible conditions as per agreed assortment and placement strategies;
• Negotiates goods delivery at optimum conditions and evaluates the quality of suppliers services;
• Studies price movements and market conditions;
• Proposes optimum pricing strategy of the food product portfolio and the coffee shop assortment;
• Coordinates with suppliers the delivery of goods to gas stations and evaluates the quality of their services;
• Takes care of the implementation of Company policies and local legislation related to the area of responsibility;
• Performs other tasks in the field of professional qualification given by the superior.

• Minimum University degree (7.1 or 6.2. NQFS level) of Economics, Business, Technical or similar background and/or;
• Minimum 3 years of work experience;
• English Language;
• MS Office skills.

• Communication and negotiations skills;
• Numerical and analytical skills;
• Trade skills;
• Category management skills.