Category Associate

• Identify and build strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Work with support teams to ensure accurate order information.
• Taking regular market surveys for new products availability.
• Represent purchasing in new product development projects as an active team member.
• Regularly interact with vendors and category managers to make sure that products are procured on competitive rates with best quality
• Support development of market insights from cross-client sourcing activity 
• Manage content processes and make sure that all content on the app for the concerned category is accurate as a physical product.  
• Manage category resources, ensuring GMV, Margins, NMR or back margins targets are achieved. 
• Ensure that all available assortment in the market is also available on the APP. 
• Infuse market insights into the sourcing process on projects within categories of expertise..
• Own product launches end-to-end new from sourcing, go-to-market strategy, execution to commercialization.
• Understand costs, cost planning and analysis to support cost reductions, cost negotiations, parts strategy and supplier strategy.
• Partner with all key stakeholders 
• Identify key insights and translate into actionable recommendations.
• Develop plans and priorities for the team to ensure activities are focused on achieving department goals.
• Work collaboratively with finance for a smooth payment process. 

• A graduation degree from a reputable institution 
• Fresh/ 2 years years or more experience in analytical roles involving excel, SQL or Tableau. 
• Comfortable using business intelligence tools (e.g. Power BI, Google Data Studio)
• Proficient in predictive modeling and forecasting via Excel or other tools
• Highly organized and self-disciplined, able to work on multiple projects in a self-structured and well-prioritized way
• Extremely analytical, data-driven & with a keen eye on process improvement
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills with a problem-solving attitude is the cornerstone of your personality
• You must be adept at G-Suite

“To be the most loved everyday food and groceries destination!” - that’s our mission at foodpanda (small ‘f’).

foodpanda is the largest food and grocery delivery platform in Asia, outside of China. Operating in more than 400 cities across 11 markets, we continue to expand and grow in our core food delivery business, as well as in new verticals like grocery deliveries, with a strong tech infrastructure at our core. From our restaurants-partners, cloud kitchens and cloud grocery stores — foodpanda is just one tap away, getting everything you need into your hands quickly and conveniently!

If you love working with technology to create solutions and are not afraid to roll up your sleeves to get things done, you will find your tribe here at foodpanda. foodpanda comprises of people from more than 60 nationalities, and we believe in winning through diversity.
foodpanda is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s leading local delivery platform operating in 70+ countries worldwide

• We are fast, like mind boggling fast! So if you’re someone who loves ever changing goals and loves optimization, you’re the right fit for us!

• We love people who can develop things from scratch, own them and then work on improving them.

• We love what we do, and we don’t rest until we’ve achieved our targets. So if you’re also someone who is driven until the dream is achieved, come join us.