Flipkart - Assistant Manager - Sell Side

Assistant Manager - Sell Side

About Flipkart :

Flipkart is India's largest e-commerce player with a valuation of over US $11 billion and sales of US $3 billion. Globally, it is among the top 5 most valued privately-funded technology-driven company (after Xiaomi, Uber and Airbnb).

Our goal is to re-invent how people shop and buy digitally. Flipkart is known for its path-breaking services such as Cash on Delivery, and a 30-day replacement policy. Flipkart is the only online player offering services like In-a-Day Guarantee (50 cities) and Same-Day-Guarantee (13 cities) at scale.

Flipkart's mobile app is one of the most downloaded and used app in the country.

Launched in October 2007, Flipkart has become the preferred online marketplace for leading Indian and international brands offering over 20 million products cross 70+ categories including Books, Media, Consumer Electronics and Lifestyle.

Flipkart, currently 33,000 people strong, has 30 million registered users clocking over 10 million daily visits. Flipkart's technology has enabled it to deliver 8 million shipments per month - and this number's only growing.

Position : Assistant Manager

Location : Bangalore

Role Summary : This is a Category Sales Manager Role pertaining to Furniture.

The incumbent will take care of the planning (inventory, promotions etc.), merchandising & drive customer focus and profitability initiatives.

Job Description :

Customer understanding :

- Be the voice of the customer internally

- Understand needs - even those that the customers themselves may not realize

- Stay on top of changing trends and strategic priorities through in-depth data analysis to predict customer behavior

Pricing :

- Develop the right pricing policy - identify opportunities for giving customers value through intelligent and limited discounting

- Use discounting to drive portfolio mix and achieve strategic goals

Merchandising :

- Develop and execute plans to showcase the right products

- Identify cross-selling and upselling opportunities

- Own the customer experience in the category - make navigation, discovery easier. Save the customer time

- Identify the parameters customers use to make decisions and ensure catalog richness

Marketing :

- Work with marketing to identify the best RoI initiatives to build awareness and encourage trial across channels - Push Notifications, E-mailers, Social Media Campaigns etc.

Promotions :

- Create promotions to drive revenue, margins, etc.

- Own both creation and execution of promotions calendar including special occasions (TBBD, BASD4 etc.)

- Work with buying and inventory planning teams to reduce inventory where needed

Desired Skills and Experience :

- Knowledge of Retail is a plus

- Desire and ability to think like the customer

- Ability to translate strategies into execution plans and take them to completion

- Highly analytical

- Willing to take calculated risks to grow the category

- Excellent verbal and written communication with interpersonal skills

- Strong understanding of technology and business

- Must be willing to learn

- Ability to connect with people across teams & levels

- Strong bias for Action - Flipkart works at a very rapid pace