Senior Executive/Manager, Category Management

We are looking for a Senior Executive/Manager, Category Management to be based in foodpanda Malaysia, at Bangsar South, Kuala Lumpur. This role will be reporting to Senior Category Manager in the pandamart vertical. The Category Management team oversees the strategic planning, development, and execution of product categories within the foodpanda groceries business. You will get to wear many hats and meticulously plan to launch and expand an exciting new business, and instill  operational efficiency in processes.This role is open to hire at either Senior Executive or Manager level depending on the candidate's qualifications & experience.Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:Accountable for delivering excellent administration support to the category managers enabling the team to drive Category performance within pandaMart MY Act as the ‘business owner’ across different allocated categories, possessing a complete  understanding of internal and external variables that impact foodpanda businessMust develop and execute optimal category strategy, pricing, promotions, range,  availability, and cost prices to expand both sales and margin, dEnsure foodpanda categories has the optimal selection and strategically competitive  prices in the market through local and international sourcing, developing a strategic long-term plan for the development of the categorySource and build strong supplier base to negotiate terms improvement, secure supplier  advertising spend, and ensure a reliable and operationally effective flow of goodsWork to develop new sourcing and extended range to ensure we have high quality, good  value goods available to our customers year-round Employ data-driven decision making to drive the category while working closely with marketing and supply chain to forecast demand  and ensure consistent supply Work cross functionally with Product, Supply Chain, Sales Operations and Marketing to  deliver strategic projectsDeep dive into categories to understand best and worst practices and subsequently develop and execute short and long term strategies to drive category performance