Category Manager (WM) (Grocery Retail)

Location: Kazakhstan

Company

hirify.global is a Finnish technology company operating a delivery platform across more than 30 countries; hirify.global Market runs grocery stores with delivery to customers’ doorsteps.

What you will do

• Own performance for assigned grocery categories, including forecasting, monitoring, reporting, and corrective actions.
• Define and continuously update store-level assortments to meet customer needs and optimize order economics.
• Build trading strategies, business plans, and project plans incorporating merchandising and pricing.
• Lead supplier negotiations to establish joint goals, improve cost structure, and grow the P&L.
• Influence category design, develop new product groups, and improve customer experience.
• Collaborate with stock management, content, operations, marketing, finance, retail systems, and regional commercial stakeholders while improving and automating manual processes.

Requirements

• Experience in grocery retail, category management, key account management, consulting, or a similar commercial environment, with a proven track record of delivering results and ideally strong exposure to grocery categories.
• Strong experience in supplier negotiations and commercial planning.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Ability to think strategically and operationally, with high attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills and experience negotiating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent G Suite or MS Office skills, especially Excel.
• Professional proficiency in English and Russian.

Culture & Benefits

• Individual-contributor role with complete ownership of assigned categories.
• Collaborative work with regional commercial stakeholders to align priorities, best practices, and performance standards.
• Inclusive environment focused on empowering people from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.