Retail Product Owner at Best Service Raya Full Time NEW

Job Title: Retail Product Owner

Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Profile

• This job entails planning, coordinating, implementing and overseeing the sales strategies to boost business performance, across the Phones and Mobile Accessory category.
• The key role is to develop category strategies, in line with the organizational Product strategy chart, while monitoring its implementation, and ensuring category growth and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Develop a phones and mobile accessory category strategy, (broken down into achievable quarterly, monthly and weekly timelines), in line with the organizational Product strategy chart.
• Liaise with the Sales Team to propose and evaluate category-centric sales and advertising activities, across Offline and Online sales channels.
• Monitor category-specific business performance, traffic and user trends to generate actionable category assortment insights.
• Conduct market surveys to provide customer-focused insights, to help advise category assortment strategy for wholesale, retail and E-Commerce platforms, using consumer demand signals, external data, pattern recognition and industry expertise.
• Catalyze cross functional teams (marketing, sales and operations) to act on these insights and deliver business impact.
• Propose new assortment additions, pricing, promotions and exclusivity to deliver a best-in-class category assortment.
• Create category-specific assortment plan for key seasonal moments and drive implementation with the marketing, inventory and sales team.
• Facilitate partnerships, onboarding and upscaling new merchants by providing seller & category-specific insights. Own relationship with existent onboarded sellers and Key Accounts.
• Create exit strategies for products that are not successful in the market, while monitoring inventory ageing and replenishment patterns
• Leverage syndicated POS, Ecommerce and retail data to develop deep understanding of the quickly moving and evolving category dynamics. Interpret data to deliver objective category insights, analysis, and thoughts that offers disruptive category growing opportunities.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of category landscape to help identify and drive strategic sales opportunities and customer growth objectives
• Advice merchandising team on offers for B2B and B2C integrated marketing campaigns with the aim of acquiring and retaining customers.
• Be responsible for category-specific consumer experience. Partner with operations team to translate customer insights into strategies which drive performance.
• Leading category management projects to optimize ranges and related merchandising.
• Manage a comprehensive portfolio of Phones & accessory category brands and OEM’s; while developing appropriate strategies to ensure profitable partnerships, product sourcing and profitability for the category.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor’s Degree with 3 – 10years’ experience.
• Proven experience as a product manager or product owner in a retail industry, mobile phone industry or related industry
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Creative problem-solving abilities and a proactive attitude.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.