Product Manager Stationery

Through constant diversification of the portfolio of products and services, Altex currently has the most comprehensive range of products required for company activities, including stationery, promotional products, professional cleaning and hygiene products, protective equipment, office furniture, electro-IT and office equipment.

We're looking for a Product Manager to complete our stationery team and to administer the portfolio of stationery products and toys portfolio.

Main responsibilities:

· Stationery and toys 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:

· 2-3 years' experience in managing the product category, 5 years’ experience in 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.