Category Head/Manager - Fashion/Women's Western Wear Products - eCommerce

Category Head - Fashion/ Clothing/ Ladies western wear, leading eCommerce company

Looking forward to hiring for the profile of Category manager/ head for the ladies fashion/ accessories/ wester wear for one of our leading eCommerce clients, based out of Delhi NCR.

Job Location : Delhi NCR

Key relationships :

Internal : Key Account Managers, Marketing Teams, Sales Planner, Sales Development

External : Key Accounts Chains, Creative/Design/manpower agencies

Key Responsibilities :

- A strategic alignment with retailers. A superior understanding of shopper needs and behaviors.

- Develop a triple win (Client, Retailer and shopper) strategy, adequate mix activation plan and P&L of the category.

- Build a trusting relationship with counterparts with vendors, e-tailers, key retail chains, gain category captaincies, monitor category projects roll-out.

- Act as the referent and single point of contact for category questions.

- Deliver vision of online and in store excellence for our categories and brands.

- Support the commercial team in their business plan alignment with retailers, with the right shopper and category insights, market and category reviews, and during retailer presentation.

- Help in internal arbitration between brands when required

Key Deliverables :

- Growth of Client's brands and where we have category captaincy, delivering target growth for the category.

- In control of building brand saliency, imagery and awareness of our categories and brands across the paradigm.

Education : Graduate with MBA preferred

Professional Experience :

- 4-8 years in competitive Category Management role, Shopper Marketing, Key Accounts Management or retail (Fashion/ accessories/ women's wear/ western wear)

Industry Source : Preferably from eCommerce, FMCG industry or Retail background

- In case of eCommerce, the candidate is expected to be from a relevant eCommerce firm in this category like Myntra, Snapdeal, Jabong, Flipkart, Amazon etc.

- Should the aspirant be from the retail side of the business, the candidate should have experience of working in prominent retail chains like Future Group, Reliance Retail, Walmart etc.

Should you match our requirements, please apply asap.