Grandiose — one of Dubai’s well-established premium FMCG retail brands — is seeking a commercially sharp and analytically driven Assortment, Pricing & Analytics Manager to join its Commercial team in Dubai. This is a senior commercial analytics role responsible for leading the development of the company’s assortment planning, pricing strategy, and retail analytics to support data-driven decision-making and profitability enhancement across the retail portfolio. The role requires a minimum of 4+ years in the FMCG retail industry and 5+ years specifically in pricing, assortment, or retail analytics roles, strong Power BI or Tableau proficiency, excellent data modeling and presentation skills, and the commercial intelligence to connect analytical insights directly to category growth, SKU performance improvement, and margin optimization outcomes.
About Grandiose — Premium FMCG Retail | Dubai UAE
Company: Grandiose — Premium FMCG Retail Brand | Dubai, UAE | Serving quality-conscious UAE consumers with a curated assortment of food, grocery, and lifestyle products
Department: Commercial team — responsible for assortment strategy, pricing, category management, promotions, and data-driven commercial decision-making
Analytics Culture: Data-driven approach to retail decision-making — Power BI, Tableau, and advanced analytics tools actively used to optimize assortment, pricing, and category performance
Market Position: Premium UAE retail market — competing on product quality, assortment intelligence, pricing precision, and customer experience rather than price alone
Team: Cross-functional collaboration with buying, category, supply chain, operations, and marketing teams across the Grandiose retail organization
Why This Grandiose Assortment Pricing Analytics Manager Role Is a Career-Advancing Opportunity in Dubai 2026
Rare Tri-Function Scope: The combination of assortment management, pricing strategy, and retail analytics responsibility in a single senior role provides an extraordinarily broad commercial intelligence remit — the kind of end-to-end retail commercial analytics ownership that develops the most commercially rounded and most marketable FMCG retail leadership profiles in the industry
Dubai FMCG Market: Dubai’s premium FMCG retail sector is one of the most commercially dynamic, analytically sophisticated, and professionally stimulating retail environments in the MENA region — where consumer sophistication, product category diversity, and competitive intensity create genuinely complex and intellectually rewarding commercial analytics challenges
P&L Impact: Directly influencing assortment decisions, pricing strategy, and promotional effectiveness at Grandiose means the analytics work produced in this role has visible, measurable P&L impact — the kind of commercial accountability that accelerates career advancement in FMCG retail
Tax-Free Dubai: Competitive senior FMCG retail analytics management compensation — zero personal income tax in Dubai, UAE
Position Overview
This Assortment, Pricing & Analytics Manager role at Grandiose in Dubai is a full-time, senior commercial management position within the Commercial team, responsible for leading three interconnected functions that together form the commercial intelligence spine of the retail business — assortment planning, pricing strategy, and retail analytics. You will develop and manage assortment plans aligned with customer insights and market trends, establish pricing strategies that balance competitiveness and profitability, utilize data analytics to optimize SKU performance and inventory management, work with cross-functional teams to support promotions and category growth plans, and monitor competitor pricing and assortment strategies. The role demands a commercially minded analytics professional who combines deep FMCG retail domain knowledge with strong data interpretation and modeling capability, Power BI or Tableau proficiency, and the strategic thinking and presentation skills to translate analytical findings into clear, actionable commercial recommendations that Grandiose’s commercial leadership team can confidently act on.
Why This Grandiose Assortment Pricing Analytics Manager Role Is the FMCG Retail Career of 2026 in Dubai: Commercial analytics professionals with 4+ years of FMCG retail experience and 5+ years specifically in pricing, assortment, or retail analytics roles — who combine strong Power BI or Tableau data visualization capability, advanced data modeling and interpretation skills, pricing strategy expertise that balances competitive positioning with profitability management, assortment planning methodology grounded in customer insight and category trends, and the cross-functional collaboration skills to translate analytics into actionable category growth plans — represent one of the most commercially valuable and actively recruited talent profiles in Dubai’s premium FMCG retail market. Grandiose’s premium positioning and data-driven commercial culture make this one of the most professionally stimulating and career-defining FMCG retail analytics management opportunities available in the UAE in 2026.
Key Responsibilities
Assortment Planning & SKU Optimization
- Develop and manage assortment plans aligned with customer insights and market trends — conducting the systematic analysis of customer purchase behavior data, market trend intelligence, competitive assortment benchmarking, and category performance analytics that provides the evidence-based foundation for assortment decisions, ensuring that Grandiose’s product range accurately reflects the purchasing preferences, lifestyle aspirations, and value expectations of its core and target customer segments rather than historical listing inertia
- Optimize SKU performance across the Grandiose portfolio — applying retail analytics methodology to systematically evaluate each SKU’s contribution to category sales, gross margin, shelf space productivity, and customer basket value, identifying underperforming SKUs that should be rationalized, space-efficient SKUs that deserve greater prominence, and market gaps where new SKU additions would create incremental category value without cannibalizing existing performers
- Utilize data analytics to optimize inventory management — developing the analytical models and reporting frameworks that connect assortment decisions with inventory investment implications, helping the buying and supply chain teams understand the inventory cost, days-of-supply, and working capital impact of assortment changes before they are implemented, ensuring that assortment optimization translates into improved inventory efficiency rather than increased stockholding complexity
- Support promotions and category growth plans with assortment intelligence — providing the specific assortment analytics, product performance benchmarks, and category growth opportunity analyses that make promotional planning more targeted, category development conversations with suppliers more evidence-based, and range review decisions more commercially grounded than intuition and relationship history alone could support
Pricing Strategy Development & Competitive Monitoring
- Establish pricing strategies that balance competitiveness and profitability across Grandiose’s product portfolio — developing the pricing architecture and strategy framework that positions Grandiose’s product range at price points that attract and retain the right customer segments while protecting the gross margin levels that the business’s profitability requirements demand, applying price elasticity analysis, customer price sensitivity research, and competitor pricing data to calibrate pricing decisions with the analytical rigor that premium retail pricing strategy requires
- Monitor competitor pricing and assortment strategies systematically — maintaining current, accurate, and actionable competitor intelligence on pricing levels, promotional mechanics, assortment composition, and private label development across Grandiose’s key competitive set, translating competitor monitoring findings into specific pricing and assortment recommendations that help Grandiose respond intelligently to competitive pricing moves without simply matching every competitor discount
- Develop promotional pricing evaluation frameworks — designing the pre-promotion ROI modeling and post-promotion effectiveness analysis methodology that enables Grandiose’s commercial team to assess promotional pricing proposals objectively against both sales volume impact and gross margin outcome, building the evidence base for a more disciplined, profit-protective approach to promotional planning than volume-optimized promotional investment alone
- Analyze price architecture across categories for strategic opportunities — evaluating the distribution of products across price tiers within each category to identify specific pricing architecture gaps, premium trade-up opportunities, value entry-point weaknesses, and private label positioning opportunities that could improve Grandiose’s competitive positioning and margin mix within
categories
Retail Analytics, BI Tools & Data-Driven Decision Support
- Build and maintain retail analytics dashboards in Power BI or Tableau — developing the self-serve retail analytics infrastructure that gives Grandiose’s commercial leadership, buying team, and category managers real-time visibility into sales performance, margin trends, SKU productivity, price compliance, and competitive positioning across the product portfolio, reducing dependence on manual spreadsheet reporting and enabling faster, more confident commercial decision-making
- Conduct advanced data modeling and interpretation for commercial decision support — applying statistical analysis, regression modeling, basket analysis, cohort analysis, and other quantitative retail analytics techniques to extract meaningful commercial insights from Grandiose’s transaction, customer, and market data, translating complex analytical findings into clear, concise, and visually compelling presentations that communicate the commercial implications and recommended actions in terms that both analytical and non-analytical decision-makers can act on
- Support data-driven SKU review and ranging decisions — producing the category performance review analyses, supplier scorecard analytics, and new line evaluation models that give Grandiose’s buying and commercial teams the objective, data-grounded commercial evidence they need to make listing, delisting, and range change decisions confidently rather than relying solely on supplier relationships or historical ranging practices
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
- Work with cross-functional teams including buying, category management, supply chain, marketing, and operations to support promotions and category growth plans — maintaining the collaborative working relationships and clear analytical communication that ensures the assortment, pricing, and analytics function’s insights are actively used by the commercial, buying, and operational teams that have the decision-making authority to act on them
- Present analytical findings and strategic recommendations to senior commercial leadership — communicating complex retail analytics insights in the structured, visually compelling, and commercially framed presentation format that enables Grandiose’s commercial leadership team to make confident, evidence-based assortment, pricing, and category strategy decisions based on genuine analytical understanding rather than compelling anecdotes or supplier advocacy
Qualifications & Requirements
Educational Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Economics, Business Administration, Statistics, or a closely related quantitative business or analytical discipline — providing the commercial, economic, and quantitative analytical foundations for pricing strategy, assortment planning, and retail data analytics at senior management level
Experience Requirements
- At least 4+ years of experience in the FMCG Retail industry — with sufficient depth of retail sector knowledge to understand category dynamics, consumer behavior, supplier relationships, and retail operations in the UAE or GCC FMCG market context
- 5+ years specifically in pricing, assortment, or retail analytics roles — demonstrating the focused analytical and commercial expertise in these specific functions that the Assortment, Pricing & Analytics Manager title requires
- Strong data interpretation, modeling, and presentation skills — with demonstrated ability to produce rigorous analytical outputs and translate complex findings into actionable commercial recommendations for senior decision-makers
- Proficiency in Power BI or Tableau — with demonstrated ability to build retail analytics dashboards and commercial reporting infrastructure that meets the self-serve analytics needs of a cross-functional commercial team
About Grandiose & FMCG Retail Analytics in Dubai 2026
Grandiose operates in one of the most dynamic, analytically demanding, and commercially competitive premium FMCG retail markets in the world — Dubai’s grocery and lifestyle retail sector, where well-travelled, quality-conscious, and value-aware consumers interact with an extraordinary range of international and regional product choices across every category. In this environment, the analytical quality of assortment decisions, the strategic precision of pricing, and the commercial intelligence embedded in retail analytics are not peripheral support functions — they are the core commercial levers that determine whether a premium retailer grows its market share and protects its margins or loses ground to competitors who make better-informed decisions faster. The Assortment, Pricing & Analytics Manager at Grandiose is the person who owns these analytical capabilities and translates them into competitive advantage — and the combination of Grandiose’s premium positioning, data-driven commercial culture, and Dubai’s exceptionally active and sophisticated FMCG retail market makes this one of the most professionally stimulating and commercially consequential retail analytics management roles available in the UAE market in 2026.
Your Career Growth Path: Assortment, Pricing & Analytics Manager → Head of Commercial Analytics → Director of Category & Pricing → VP Commercial → Chief Commercial Officer — a commercially consequential, analytically distinguished, and professionally recognized FMCG retail leadership career trajectory built at the data-driven commercial center of Dubai’s most active and sophisticated premium grocery retail environment.
Who Should Apply?
- FMCG Retail Analytics Managers (5+ Years): With dedicated pricing, assortment, or retail analytics experience in UAE or GCC FMCG retail environments, strong Power BI or Tableau capability, and the commercial intelligence to connect analytical outputs to category P&L outcomes
- Category Management Professionals — Analytical Focus: With category management, assortment planning, and retail analytics backgrounds in FMCG retail who want a senior commercial analytics role combining assortment, pricing, and analytics strategy at Grandiose
- Pricing Strategy Analysts — Retail Sector: With retail pricing strategy experience, price elasticity modeling capability, and competitive pricing monitoring expertise who want to expand their scope to include assortment planning and full retail analytics management responsibility
- BI Analysts — FMCG/Retail: With strong Power BI or Tableau retail analytics infrastructure development capability combined with FMCG domain knowledge who want to advance into a commercial analytics management role with full pricing and assortment strategy ownership
- Commercial Managers — Data-Driven FMCG: With FMCG commercial management backgrounds and strong analytical skills who want to specialize in the data-driven assortment, pricing, and analytics function that drives retail profitability in the UAE’s competitive premium grocery market
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