Regional Category

Decathlon, Europe's leading sports retailer, is recruiting passionate sports people for its expansion in Singapore and the SEA region. We believe that humans are at the heart of our business, innovation is endless and that the freedom to decide and act is vital in building a strong team. Join our purpose and let's make sports accessible to the many Game changers and sport lovers, our doors are wide open for you

**Your Role**:
Are you super passionate about Sports and excited to create change?
Come join us to create the best offer and make it available for the category. You will have two main functions : Category Management and Demand Planning.
If you are PASSIONATE, ADAPTABLE, and INNOVATIVE, Decathlon is the right place for you At Decathlon, we care deeply about creating significant development experiences while building a strong sense of belonging and connection.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Category Management
- Demand Planning
- Inventory Management

**Category Management**:

- Conduct market research to deeply understand sports practice and sports users' needs, preferences and trends
- Benchmarking of competitors with current products
- Creating 3-years brand direction / "what do we want to sell in the region?"
- Select the SKUs for the season and implement the strategies of your brand direction for your category.
- Develop the pricing strategy together with commercial teams.
- Responsible for your category performance (by markets, segments, margin) vs set KPIs
- Manage functionally different stakeholders to drive your strategies (digital, commercial, product development team).

**Demand Planning**:

- Creating 3-years supply strategies "How do we ensure optimized supply for the region?"
- Define forecasts in different time horizons to identify changes or to determine their effect on supply chain activities.
- Ensure good availability of products for sport users across omni-channels
- Maintain all supply related parameters and master data in relevant planning systems
- Implement supply strategies adapted to changing market conditions, new business opportunities, or cost reduction.
- Develop procedures for coordination of supply chain management with other functional areas, such as category management, marketing, finance, production, or quality.
- Monitor supplier performance to assess ability to meet quality and delivery requirements (Delivery On Time)
- Collaborate with the procurement team on Request For Quotation, SnOP contract and Lead Time optimization.
- Responsible for your category performance (by markets, segments, margin) vs set KPIs

**Inventory Management**:

- Manage the stock lifetime in an efficient manner to ensure profitability of your category.
- Develop stock optimization policies based on demand and stock flow parameters for good stock rotation.
- Manage the product life cycle and interseason stock.

**Requirements**:
**What you will need to be successful in the role**:

- Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast-paced environment
- 1-5 Years exp in Demand-Planning, Inventory Management or Category Management.
- Have a passion for sports
- Preferably a Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and strong analytical skills
- Have good Business & Entrepreneurial acumen and user/customer-centric

**Benefits**:

- Salary will commensurate with experience
- Monthly bonus based on sales performance - up to 10%.
- Profit sharing based on company performances.
- Staff discount across all brands
- Medical and insurance benefits
- Local and Global opportunities for career/ zig-zag progression and/or specialization (You decide your own career path)