Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Category Lead
Location: Remote (Ukraine)
Employment Type: Full-time
Prom.ua – the largest marketplace in Ukraine, where over 100 million products are sold by tens of thousands of entrepreneurs from across the country.
Team: Category Lead Team
Contact: Олексій Негреєв LinkedIn
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About the Team
The Category Lead Team is responsible for the development of key product categories on the Prom marketplace. The team operates at the intersection of business, analytics, product, and marketing, helping categories grow faster through the development of the assortment, attracting sellers, improving user experience, and launching new initiatives.
Each Category Lead manages a separate business direction and is responsible for its development. The team focuses on market and competitor analysis, finding new growth opportunities, forming category strategy, and implementing it with product, marketing, analytics, and operations teams.
We are expanding our team and are looking for a Category Lead who will help develop one of the key categories of the marketplace – FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods and food products), form its strategy, and influence the main success indicator – GMV growth.
Main Areas of Influence
- Development and implementation of category growth strategy with a focus on business performance
- Market analysis, competitive environment, trends, and buyer behavior to find new development opportunities for the category
- Management of the category assortment matrix: development of key areas, improvement of the quality of the offer, and adaptation to changes in demand
- Scaling the category through the development of assortment, sellers, marketing, and product initiatives
- Formation, monitoring, and analysis of key category performance indicators, making decisions based on data
- Initiation and implementation of projects aimed at increasing GMV through product, marketing, content, and operational improvements
- Definition of category development priorities and representation of the direction's interests in interactions with product, marketing, analytics, and operations teams
- Building effective cross-functional interaction to implement strategic initiatives and achieve business results
Requirements
- Experience in managing a product category with responsibility for its development and business performance
- Understanding of the principles of marketplaces and category development through assortment, sellers, demand, and user experience
- Experience with the assortment matrix, category analytics, seasonality, and demand forecasting
- Ability to find new opportunities for category growth and translate them into concrete business results
- Ability to make data-driven decisions and use metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of own initiatives
- Experience in developing and implementing category or business line growth strategies
- Ability to effectively interact with stakeholders and influence results without direct management of teams
- Proactivity, entrepreneurial thinking, and willingness to take responsibility for results
Nice to Have
- Experience in developing FMCG categories, everyday goods, pet products, sports, and leisure
- Team management skills
What Makes This Role Special
- Your own business direction within the largest marketplace in Ukraine: the Category Lead is responsible not for a separate process or function, but for the development of an entire category and its business results
- Direct impact on GMV growth: the result of work is directly measured by the development of the category, and successful initiatives are quickly noticeable in business performance
- Opportunity to build a new approach to category management: the team continues to develop the category model, so there will be a lot of room for new ideas, experiments, and your own vision
- Influence on decisions far beyond the commercial function: the role involves close collaboration with product, marketing, analytics, and operations teams to achieve a common result
- Ability to influence category development through assortment, sellers, product, and marketing simultaneously
- High level of autonomy and responsibility: the team expects independence in decision-making and supports initiatives that help develop the business
Working Conditions
- Remote work format. You can work remotely or from a modern autonomous office near the Boryspilska metro station.
- Stability and support. Official employment, 24 days of paid vacation, health insurance, and access to many corporate benefits.
- Flexible full-time. You can plan your work within business hours and build a comfortable work flow.
- Values and social responsibility. Transparent processes, equal opportunities, participation in team-building, volunteer initiatives, and professional communities.
About the Project
Prom.ua – one of the largest marketplaces in Ukraine, where over 100 million products from tens of thousands of entrepreneurs from across the country are presented.
Every month, the platform is visited by over 52 million users, and 60,000+ entrepreneurs develop their business with us.
Prom is part of the IT company EVO, which creates services for the development of Ukrainian business.
Do you want to manage a category as a separate business, launch your own initiatives, and directly influence its growth?
Send a response – let's get acquainted.
Selection Stages
- Interview with the recruiter
- Technical interview
- Final interview
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