Bakery & Deli Category Manager

Responsible for the profitability and development by leading and Managing the Bakery category to achieve targeted budget Sales/GP/Value & Contribution and ensure that the Bakery is a leading destination department within the market.

– Negotiate with supplier to achieve category GP through BDA or below the line income

– Maintain category margin and contribution value.

– Negotiate with suppliers promo plan and activities for category profits and extra income

– Looking for new Supplier to get customer benefit & additional income.

– Manage the Range and costings

Manage optimum production according to customer demands.

– Select competitive range according customer demand &range strategy.

– Prepare and implement planogram to maximize sales, GP, and space utilization.

– Maintain high quality and freshness of stock.

– Ensure highest standard packaging and presentation

– Ensure deliciousness in baked items to attract customers.

– Support operation team for production plan.

– Tasting plan to maximize the sales

– Ensure that operation team used right and standard recipe for manufactured products.

– Involve in New store opening plan to implementation and manage category planogram

– Implement promotion strategy according to customer profile demand and category demand

– implementthe strategy of pricing to ensure that the prices are competitive and profits are maximized

– Maintain availability of products.

– Identify the new trend in dept.

– Analyze the sales of category and action plan to improve it

– Analyze range accordingly to customer needs and seasonality and action on time.

– Action plan on short expiry items

– Action plan on low quality stock.

– Daily promotion plan strategy

– Ensure all products are high quality and fresh to minimize the wastage.

– Analyze the Wastage and Shrinkage to minimize it

– Maintain optimum stock.

– Daily production to maintain the freshness of products and improve the inventory turns and GP.

– Action plan for over stock & slow moving Items

– Involve in preparing annual budget for Sales/Purchase/Inventory/GM/BM..

– Analyzing actual result to budget and prepare action plan to achieve variance target.

– Monthly and Quarterly review of performance against Budgets through proper analysis with action plans and follow up

– Developing and maintaining successful relations with vendors to get the best services.

– Evaluate supplier performance.

– Negotiate with supplier long & short terms agreement

– Periodical meeting to evaluate previous performance and to prepare plan for coming period and solving any problems

– Responsible about all business process related to category department (Order process, BDA process, promotion process, …..etc)

– Implement &Monitoring work flow and road map of process

– Responsible to benchmark current process and systems with industry best practices.

– Analyze and document business processes and problems. Develop solutions to enhance efficiencies.

– Time Management.

– Stores visit :

– Identify visit prospects.

– Checking :

– Implementation of planogram.

– Availability of items.

– Quality of products.

– Hygiene of section

– Over stock and action.

– Discussion with store manager the ways to maximize Sales, GP for category

– Ensure compliance of all food processing laws and regulations.

– Identify issues to solve.

– Competitor visit :

– Frequently competitor store visit to observe new trend, pricing & promotion.

– Observe supplier’s investment

– Develop valued team, who can take responsibilities and finish the task.

– Build effective relation with members in order to become team player.

– Develop their skills

– Identify the weaknesses of staff member for training and development.

– Motivating subordinates for the heist performance.

– Leading a team work discussions and meetings for the best team performance.

– Following the team tasks to achieve company target.

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