Overview

Raya Distribution Nigeria is a company that operates in the distribution and Retail sectors, providing a range of services such as distribution, Retail, After Sales and logistics solutions. They are part of the larger Raya Holding for Financial Investments, which is based in Egypt and operates in multiple sectors including information technology, consumer electronics, and logistics.

Job Position: Product Manager (Mobile Phone Industry)

Job Location: Ikeja, Lagos

Job Description

  • 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.

Job Responsibilities
Responsibilities are but not limited to:

  • 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 relationships with existing onboarded sellers and Key Accounts.
  • Create exit strategies for products that are not successful in the market, while monitoring inventory aging and replenishment patterns
  • Leverage syndicated POS, E-commerce 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
  • Advised 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 the operations team to translate customer insights into strategies that drive performance.
  • Leading category management projects to optimize ranges and related merchandising.
  • Manage a comprehensive portfolio of Phones & accessories category brands and OEM’s; while developing appropriate strategies to ensure profitable partnerships, product sourcing and profitability for the category.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: damilola_onifade@rayatrade.com using the job title as the subject of the mail.

Tagged as: Information Technology, Product Management