Category Growth - eCommerce - IIT/BITS/IIM

About the Role :

- Category Growth : Driving marketplace growth of the relevant category keeping in mind the consumer and competition.

- PnL : Owning P&L for the relevant category in alignment with business goals. The Category manager would be responsible for the revenue targets as well as the gross margins.

- Selection : Responsible for merchandising, assortment planning, option plans preseason as well as in season to ensure that the Category is well represented

- Trend Spotting : Should be able to identify broader trends and fill category gaps

- Cross-Functional Capabilities : Should be able to fruitfully coordinate with marketing, supply chain, cataloging, finance/commercial and other functions of the organization.

- Supervision and Monitoring of Operations : Should have prior experience or enough knowledge & confidence to mentor / supervise merchandising operations. Inbound planning, Cataloguing monitoring & Discount monitoring etc should be managed.

- Marketing promotions : Should drive visibility plans, promotion plans and coordinate the same between the internal marketing teams and that of the sellers

What we look for :

- Graduate from a Tier-1 College (IIT/IIM/BITS)

- 3+ yrs of work experience

- Startup Cultural Fit : willingness to learn, to innovate, to take initiative, to think beyond conventional dogma, ability to work in a flat organization

- Strong analytical aptitude in problem solving

- Should be good at multitasking, critical thinking, and comfortable with tactical execution

- Proven track record of finding innovative solutions to business problems