Relaxo Footwear - Deputy Manager- Category & Portfolio Management

Company :

- Relaxo Footwears Ltd is one of the fastest growing Footwear company in India. The current Annual Turnover of the company is Rs. 1700+ crores with 10 manufacturing plants in Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttrakhand. At Present more than 13,500 plus employees are working in the company. The company has presence in more than 30 countries such as USA, Australia, New Zealand, UAE and many more. Relaxo is a household name for its brands like Sparx, Hawaii, Flite, Elena, Casuals and School Mate.

- A strong Customer focused approach and the constant quest for top class quality, with continuous introduction of new products has enabled the company to attain and sustain leadership position for the last several years. We are a professionally managed Organization with high growth potential aiming at expanding our manufacturing base further to cater the growing demands.

- Relaxo offers exciting careers and provides opportunities for significant professional development of its employees which includes career growth across India. The company operates on advanced IT platform SAP.

Job description :

Position Title :Deputy Manager- Category & Portfolio Management

Department : Retail-SCM

Work Location : Delhi (HO)

Grade : Deputy Manager

Travel Required : Yes (25%)

Reporting to : AGM - Category & Portfolio

Reported by : Sr. Category In charge / Planning In charge / ASMs

Minimum Job Requirements :

Educational Qualification : MBA / PG Diploma - Footwear Technology

Experience : 5 7 yrs. of Sales experience in Footwear/FMCG

Any additional requirement:

Purpose of the Position (Job Summary) :

- To Lead SCM Merchandising Team comprising of ASMs / Sr. Category In charge / Planning In charge.

- To implement planned Supply Chain Management (SCM) Operations by assuring timely and accurate supply of goods and materials from our plants and outside vendors as per the request of the Retail Stores.

- To provide direction and leadership to the merchandising and planning staff to maintain perfect balance between sales, Overall inventory and forecast accuracy.

Key Roles and Responsibilities :

Financial :

- Responsible for rotating inventory to minimize percentage of old stock in overall inventory.

- Regular monitoring of article in terms of sale through and to liquidate slow moving.

- Responsible for minimizing Costs of lost sales and stocks outs.

- Increase Net Realization by improving product mix and price increase.

Customer Oriented :

- Responsible for maintaining perfect product mix and product design.

- Regular monitoring of Stock outs and seasonality wise revision on inventory norms.

- Location wise product mix segregation in terms of geographical conditions & purchasing power of end customer.

- Improve Product visibility by regular monitoring of visual merchandising.

People Oriented :

- Lead the ASMs / Sr. Category In charge / Planning In charge monitor their performance and undertake coaching, hiring and career development.

Internal Business Process

- Material planning and stock availability, new store opening.

Competencies :

Technical/Functional :

- Strategic Thinking.

- Operations/Logistics Strategy Development.

- Geographical Distribution Knowledge.

- Product Evaluation knowledge.

- Warehouse Management knowledge.

- Sale and order/production forecasting knowledge.

- Communication skills.

Behavioral :

- Proven leadership skills

- Strong interpersonal skills

- Man management skill

Key Responsibility Areas :

Quantitative :

- 100% Availability of stock

- Daily stock requirement monitoring.

- Daily overall inventory monitoring.

- Involvement in NPD.

- Regular Portfolio monitoring.

Qualitative :

- Mystery shopping analysis to come up with Competitor policy, Product range, Available price points and Method of treatment.

- Customer Service

Key Stakeholder Management :

Internal :

- Retail sales Team

- SCM-Logistics

- Wholesale SCM Team

- Company factory

- Import Team

- Institutional/online Sales

- Marketing

- HR

External :

- Retail franchise

- Outsource Vendor

Industry : Retail

Employment type : Full-time

Experience : Associate

Job function : Product Management