Category Manager

JOB DESCRIPTION :

Roles & Responsibilities Role:

- Category P&L, Brand Range & Portfolio Selection, Inventory & Vendor management.

- Looking after the operations metrics of the category & driving the same

Responsibilities:

• Driving the topline, Profitability, and all business-related key metrics

• Be the owner for the operational metrics & consumer metrics for the category as well

• Assortment rationalization: Effective assortment management of the category keeping in mind the product & price mix across different locations/zones. Oversee new and existing product line assortment and modular planning for the category.

• Benchmarking National & Regional competitors to maintain competitive pricing on the platform

• Drive the brand alignment charter for the category; Align with all relevant brands & negotiate best TOT with them.

• Designing & Implementing campaigns for the category to drive growth. Owning the display and campaigns of the category on the website. Strategize positioning of a product based on various factors like promotions, brand commitments etc.

• Help the KAMs, Business development managers and category managers to ensure best inputs for the category.

Experience and Education:

• Postgraduate from premier B-School, with over 8 plus years of work experience.

• Proven experience in building and scaling categories in an online marketplace. Experience in scaling consumer electronics category is a plus.

• Demonstrated experience and exposure to growing teams in startups that have scaled significantly.

• Should have strong analytic and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.

• Hands-on, self-motivated, and detail oriented.

• Ability to work in fast-paced start-up environment.

• Should be results oriented, proactive and showing overall leadership quality.

Behavioral skills:

• Strategic thinker balanced with being detail oriented. Must possess the ability to switch between execution and strategy mode most effortlessly.

• High energy with strong and charismatic communication skills.

• Ability to prioritize and cope with competing demands. Must possess a sense of urgency and excellent execution and project management skills.

• Inquisitive and analytical mind; out-of-the-box thinking; bring a creative perspective to business problems applying functional expertise, business understanding and common sense.

• Thrive in fast-changing environments and ambiguity while being execution-oriented, hands-on, pragmatic and focused on results.

• Collaborative and able to build a work environment that promotes teamwork, partnership, recognition and mutual respect.

• Highest level of integrity and exceptional professionalism.

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