Category Manager

Category Manager We are a global modest fashion e-commerce and retail company. We are currently operating in more than 100 countries and providing the content in five languages: Turkish, Arabic, English, French and German, by adapting to their local preferences. We bring fashion and technology together with the iconic brand and smart operations to create great value for our customers. We invest in each and every customer’s experience. We strongly believe in putting people first – our customers, our teams, our partners. We are looking for new talents to join our Category team as a Category Manager. Are you experienced in this field looking for a new challenge and likes to work within a dynamic, exciting, innovative, scaling-up working environment? You might be the one for us. What we are looking for;

• Managing relationships with suppliers under Modanisa procurement policies.
• Participating in new supplier development negotiations and deciding on eligibility to work.
• Develop strategies and ensure that these strategies are implemented by the team.
• To evaluate and improve the performance of existing suppliers and to identify supplier specific working strategies.
• Ensuring and controlling supplier contracts.
• Manage and direct product pricing activities.
• To periodically submit sales and purchasing budgets to senior management in line with strategic decisions.
• To manage the stocks for the category and report the inventory turnover speed according to the targets.
• Create campaigns in coordination with relevant chapters for special occasions (Valentine's Day, Mother’s Day, etc.) depending on the Merchandising calendar.
• To determine the need for human resources for the team, to be involved in the process of obtaining and to provide competence development.

What we expect from you;

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Business-related discipline,
• 6+ experience in category management,
• Ability to manage a team, and advanced negotiation skills,
• High drive and ambition to perform, independence, flexibility and speed,
• Fluency in English,
• Ability to assess risk/reward,
• 3 years of experience in team management,
• Ability to operate and execute independently in an ambiguous environment,

The MODANISA Story Founded in 2011, with a reason to enrich women’s lives and to become the leader in the modest fashion e-commerce world. Modanisa is a globally renowned e-commerce and retail company offering modest fashion apparel, through sales of popular brands, designers, as well as through its own private label lines.
Invested by the international leading investors like Goldman Sachs which is one of the world’s leading investment bank and investor of start-ups like Facebook, Spotify and Uber and by European bank of reconstruction and development (EBRD) - which has already invested about 11 million dollars in Turkey mostly in private sector and Wamda Capital which is MENA's leading venture investing firm and and finally in 2022 and 2023, it received investments from Re-Pie, Turkey's first asset management companyWe have been awarded by Al Jazeera and Thomson Reuters and described as one of the largest players in the modest fashion market. We are ambitious, and we know our pace.
Modanisa’s 400+ team members (along with subcontractors) are living in the creative world of huge brands. Modanisa is all about people. People are exceptionally talented with strategic agility and team first attitude.
If you are a crazy game changer who wants to change the traditional way of fashion. Join Us!