Product Manager- Hygiene and cleaning category

ALTEX is a Romanian investment group founded in 1992 and the market leader in electro-IT retail.

Being an omnichannel retailer, Altex’s mission is to make technology and equipment that improve life comfort accessible to all customers.

The company is in a constant expansion and development and we are currently looking for a Product Manager with experience in the procurment field to join our team.

Main responsibilities:

• Products' management according to performance indicators established by the company and market trends.
• Negotiations of legal contractual terms regarding new products, pricing system and policies with suppliers
• Ensuring technical and legal documentation needed for products sell (certificates, authorizations, intellectual property rights)
• Participating in fairs for selecting and establishing a new collection of products
• Trends and key performance indicators analysis aiming to define proper tactics and commercial actions and its implementation for category development and proper response to client needs.
• Monitoring the product range of the category in relation to the market and managing the pricing, availability and profitability policies
• Checking the performance of the managed products by analyzing volume, profitability, rotation speed and availability indicators
• Propose new products taking in account the market potential & clients’ demands.
• Maintain the relationship with suppliers - tracking common turnover, stocks’ availability, order operation, promotional prices negotiation.
• Select and propose products to be inserted in catalogs, flyers, communication campaigns and follow up their implementation.
• Decrease of acquisition, stock, logistics and marketing costs associated to products portfolio.

Requirements:

• A minimum 2 years of experience in managing the product category and 4 years of procurement.
• University degree
• Good level of spoken English and MS Office skills (especially Excel)
• Pro-activity and innovation in customer relationship management
• Customer-oriented
• Ability of analyzing big sets of data.
• Required company values: integrity, morality and originality.
• Team player skills.
• Competitive advantage - product development experience, own (private) brands management, former experience with China suppliers.

We welcome your application! Only selected candidates will be contact for an interview.