Assistant Vice President - Merchandising - Consumer Durable/Textile

Scope of the Role :

- Heading the Merchandise team and responsible for inventory turns and absolute margin targets of the business.

Key Deliverables :

- Own the inventory turns and absolute margins targets of the business

- Generate sales forecast for supply chain

- Be the champion for customer buying behavior and thereby define revenue growth through new product development plans & overall catalogue strategy

- Take pricing decisions

- Own promotions spend

- Define stock allocation plans

The Right Candidate Has :

- Experience of working on a diverse catalogue and margin structure

- Very strong commercial understanding of costing, pricing and promotions

- A very strong curiosity factor to understand new developments in the business from all the aspects: consumer attitudes, Omni channel customer buying behaviour, new product development, supply chain challenges and opportunities

- Working understanding of ERP 

- Analytical outlook to decision making