Category Lead - D2C Lifestyle

Category Lead- D2C Lifestyle

Responsibilities:

- Driving the category business levers like New Season launches, Product life cycles, optimizing the assortment, consumer insights for Sub-cats, Inventory health, channel sub-cat health, Market share.

- Making and managing annual budgets (P&L) to deliver top-line and bottom-line targets of category,

- Collaborate with key teams and key stakeholders

- Developing strategies specific for online channel through assortment planning, pricing, product gap analysis, and merchandise promotion

- Develop and execute effective pricing strategies that align with the growth goals and objectives of channels and organization.

- Implementing health metrics (STR - Full season/Fresh, ROS per day, Stock Cover, Core inventory Share%, Etc) and work with Demand Planning and build accurate forecasts, to minimize Loss of sale due to stock outs.

- Identify customer needs/wants through product, consumer, and brand researches and gather feedback from customers & internal stake holders.

Requirements:

- 5-10 years of experience in buying and planning, with a focus on D2C/Ecommerce/Retail.

- Proven track record of successfully managing product assortment, procurement, and inventory planning.

- Strong knowledge of D2C, Ecommerce, and Retail industry trends.

- Strong negotiation skills with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers.

- Analytical mindset, adept at interpreting data to drive informed buying decisions.

- Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives.