Director - Category - Groupon - Paris


Job description
Responsibilities
Groupon Goods is looking for experienced, professional, and target driven Category Director to help bring continued growth to this fast growing retail channel. The EMEA Category Director will report directly to the EMEA Buying Director and will be responsible for 1 of 6 major categories across 23 active countries in EMEA:
Home and Garden
Fashion

Consumer Electronics
Health and Beauty
Food and Drink
Toys/Kids/Pets

Key Responsibilities Will Include, But Not Limited To
Indirectly managing a team of buyers across EMEA
Create, execute, and drive a category strategy that's tailored to the demand of each market (what we need on the platform, when we need it, how we'll source it, and how we'll measure against it)
Own the profitability of their category and deliver against monthly and quarterly targets for EMEA and individual countries
Own, acquire, and manage large vendor relationships
Provide seasonal/annual sales and purchasing forecasts
Be responsible for ensuring high quality product and reducing returns
Generate relevant supply to meet the demand of our customers
Increase converted search to purchase percentages within their respective categories
Deliver seasonal promotions and campaigns
Work together with Goods leadership and marketing to ensure the category is properly exposed in relevant channels (e.g., comparison shopping, Facebook ads)

The Successful Candidate Will
Be highly analytical
Have worked within their respective category for at least 5 years
Come from at least a senior buyer or category manager position
Have a bachelors degree or equivalent
Be extremely capable working with excel; creating and working with formulas
Be a strong and confident presenter
Have previous management experience
Fluent in English but ideally speak German, French or Italian
Be target driven, thrive under high pressured environments and possess and 'can do' attitude
Demonstrate a previous track record of delivering growth through strategy
Be a strong executer of tasks and equally strong at project management
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