Category Analyst

About Autobia

Autobia operates as a managed B2B marketplace, providing a platform designed to address supply, delivery, and deferred inventory challenges within the automotive spare parts supply chain. The platform consolidates reliable spare parts from major brands and offers financial solutions to support customer growth and merchant inventory expansion.

The Role of Category Analyst

Autobia is seeking a Category Analyst in Riyadh to manage commercial category analysis. This full-time role involves reviewing outputs from Autobia's automated pricing systems and making final pricing decisions based on market understanding. The Category Analyst will work daily with pricing and distribution systems, as well as Metabase dashboards, to monitor category prices against market rates, identify product demand shifts due to pricing, and determine subsequent quick offer strategies. This position directly influences Autobia's market competitiveness through pricing decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Continuously compare Autobia's category prices with market and competitor prices (OEM and aftermarket), maintaining updated reference prices for the active product base.
• Analyze differences between cash and deferred prices and credit terms among competitors, recommending pricing positions that secure demand while protecting margins.
• Create, price, and schedule quick offers for the category, ensuring they meet launch criteria (minimum margin, position vs. market index, credit price difference, supplier availability and lead time, approval limits) before launch, and monitor their performance post-launch.
• Monitor out-of-stock products, missing price offers, and deleted or unconverted orders to identify price as a root cause and estimate recoverable demand.
• Process category price lists and supplier offers, detect errors and anomalous values, and feed clean data into pricing systems.
• Build periodic reports for pricing and offer performance within the category.
• Support expansion studies into new brands and assortment decisions with pricing and demand evidence.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 2 to 5 years of experience in pricing, category management, commercial analysis, or merchandising analytics.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and working knowledge of SQL (specifically Metabase/PostgreSQL).
• Ability to translate analysis into pricing or offer decisions and support them with data.
• Fluency in both Arabic and English for effective communication with suppliers and internal teams.

Additional Advantages

• Knowledge of the OEM and aftermarket spare parts ecosystem, including part numbering and cross-referencing.
• Experience in e-commerce, platforms, distribution, or the automotive spare parts sector.
• Knowledge of Python.

Work Location

This position is based in Riyadh, Riyadh Province.