Assistant Manager - Category Management
Keells, as a leading retailer is striving to deliver its core purpose to ‘improve the quality of life for the nation’. We know that to deliver on our core purpose, we have to grow and develop Sri Lanka’s best retail team. If you want to come on this journey with us, to deliver retail excellence, then we can really support your ambitions and future growth.
What You Need to Do
- Identify effective products, brands, and market opportunities, ensuring the right product assortment and availability across outlets while developing strategies to drive sales, profitability, and customer value.
- Develop and implement category strategies, including optimal range and space allocation, to maximize category profitability and enhance customer satisfaction.
- Lead supplier negotiations on pricing, trading terms, and commercial agreements to maximize margins and overall profitability across the respective categories.
- Collaborate closely with the Trade Planning and Operations team to plan and execute promotional campaigns, ensuring the achievement of monthly promotional sales and incremental margin targets.
- Partner with suppliers and the Promo Income team to develop and maximize supplier investment opportunities and strengthen the overall supplier portfolio.
- Identify range gaps and opportunities for Own Label development, ensuring targeted category growth while continuously identifying market trends and customer needs to drive customer centric initiatives and achieve sales and contribution targets for the non-food categories
What You Need
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Management, Marketing, or a related field, and/or a relevant professional qualification.
- Minimum 4 - 6 years of relevant experience in Marketing, Sales, Category Management, or a related field. Experience in the FMCG industry will be a distinct advantage.
- Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships.
- Strong knowledge of category management, market research, data analysis, forecasting, and market trends, with the ability to translate insights into business decisions.
- Proven ability to initiate, lead, and execute projects, manage multiple priorities, and achieve business objectives with a results-oriented approach.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, coach, and develop teams, together with strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply on HIVE before the 11/10/2026.
Jaykay Marketing Services (Private) Limi
6 Oct 2026