Category Manager (WM)

The role

You will own the assortment, pricing, promotions and supplier relationships for assigned grocery categories in Kazakhstan. You will forecast, monitor and report on category performance and lead supplier negotiations.

What you will do

• Own assigned category performance, including forecasting, monitoring and reporting.
• Drive projects and trading strategy to reach business goals.
• Define and update store-level assortment to meet customer needs and optimise order economics.
• Lead supplier negotiations to set joint goals, improve cost structure and grow the P&L.
• Influence category design, contribute to new product groups and improve customer experience.
• Create business plans for new opportunities and run projects with merchandising and pricing strategies.
• Work cross-functionally with stock management, content, operations, marketing, finance and retail systems.
• Automate manual processes so the team can scale.
• Find performance gaps and take corrective action on availability, sell-through, margin and waste.

Required qualifications

• Experience in grocery retail, category management, key account management, consulting or a similar commercial environment with a proven record of results; strong exposure to grocery categories is idea
• Strong experience in supplier negotiations and commercial planning.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to turn data into actionable insights.
• Ability to think strategically and operationally, with high attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills and experience negotiating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent skills in G Suite or MS Office, especially Excel.
• Professional proficiency in English and Russian.

About the company

Wolt is a Finnish technology company best known for its food delivery platform, now part of DoorDash. Wolt Market is its grocery business, which delivers groceries across 21 countries.