Amazon - Senior Category Manager

Senior Category Manager

The IN Private Brands team is looking for a customer-obsessed Category Manager to help drive one of the most exciting growth engines for Private Brands at Amazon.in.

In this role, you will lead 1-2 categories end to end - owning the lead to launch cycle for new products/brands under Private Brands along with driving inputs to achieve the desired scale for the category on both Topline and Bottomline .

- Creating a data-driven long-term product and category roadmap for 1-2 categories under Private Brands Program.

- Identifying new product development opportunities to launch products under existing and new brands.

- Developing and bringing to market new products.

- Coordinating product development with vendors, cost negotiations, product packaging etc

- Managing an existing business which is growing exponentially.

- Driving various input metrics to drive business growth.

- Designing and implementing new processes to help scale our business.

- The ideal candidate should be passionate about products, have strong product development, vendor identification, sourcing and cost negotiation skills. S/he should excel in both strategic thinking and tactical execution, as responsibilities range from launching new products/brands to enabling growth of existing portfolio. The candidate should also feel comfortable dealing with ambiguity and working in a very entrepreneurial environment.

- Proven track record for cultivating strong relationships with key client and stakeholders that have resulted in high customer satisfaction.

- Proven experience in developing long-term relationships, and negotiating strategic agreements to ensure constant cost and quality improvements.

- Proven negotiation skills, influencing abilities

- Strong numerical and analytical aptitude

- Proven experience leading cross-functional projects

- Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast-paced environment

- Good organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines

- Detail-oriented

- Technical aptitude and agility to learn web-based tools

- Smart, enthusiastic, hard-working, and creative.

- Innovative, team oriented, and have a desire to participate in change and appreciate a dynamic environment with rapidly changing priorities.

- Experience in project ownership and using customer data to identify and prioritize opportunities. MBA/Master's degree is preferred.

- Experience of dealing with Consumer Durables (Large Appliances).