Specialist, Category Management

• Build and maintain strategic relationships with internal teams and external vendors, ensuring effective collaboration and communication.
• Conduct regular market surveys to assess new product availability and develop market insights to inform sourcing strategies.
• Negotiate competitive pricing and quality with suppliers, ensuring the procurement of high-quality products that meet market demands.
• Manage category resources to achieve key performance targets such as GMV, margins, and assortment availability on the app.
• Oversee new product launches from sourcing and go-to-market strategy to execution and commercialization, ensuring successful product rollouts.
• Perform comprehensive cost analysis and support cost reduction initiatives, negotiating favourable terms and pricing with suppliers.
• Execute supplier sourcing and contracting according to company guidelines, manage supplier relationships, and resolve service and quality issues.
• Ensure all product information on the app is accurate and consistent with the physical products, maintaining high standards of information accuracy.
• Work collaboratively with finance teams to ensure smooth payment processes, and coordinate supplier agreement reviews and maintenance to align with business objectives.

• 2 years or more experience in analytical roles involving excel ,SQL or Tableau. 
• Proficient in predictive modelling 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