Category Leader/Manager/Senior Manager - Home Appliances Business - IIM/ISB/MDI/FMS

Roles & Responsibilities Role:

- Category P&L, Brand Range & Portfolio Selection, Inventory & Vendor management.

- Looking after the operations metrics of the category & driving the same

- Manage Stakeholders across - Supply chain, finance, Category - Buy Side & MP, Marketing Teams, Sales, Growth, etc.

Responsibilities :

- Driving the topline, Profitability and all business related key metrics

- Be the owner for the operational metrics & consumer metrics for the category as well

- Assortment rationalization: Effective assortment management of the category keeping in mind the product & price mix across different locations / zones. Oversee new and existing product line assortment and modular planning for the category.

- Benchmarking National & Regional competitors to maintain competitive pricing on the platform

- Drive the brand alignment charter for the category; Align with all relevant brands & negotiate best TOT with them.

- Designing & Implementing campaigns for the category to drive growth. Owning the display and campaigns of the category on the website. Strategize positioning of a product based on various factors like promotions, brand commitments etc.

- Working with a team of KAMs, Business development managers and category managers to ensure best inputs for the category.

- Creating the best in class team for the category, which raises the bar for the organisation in all aspects.

Experience and Education:

- Postgraduate from premier B-School, with over 6-10 plus years work experience.

- Proven experience in building and scaling categories in an online marketplace. Experience in scaling consumer electronics category is a plus.

- Demonstrated experience and exposure to growing teams in startups that have scaled significantly.

- Should have strong analytic and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data

- and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.

- Hands-on, self-motivated and detail oriented.

- Ability to work in fast-pace start-up environment.

- Should be results oriented, proactive and showing overall leadership quality.

Behavioral skills:

- Strategic thinker balanced with being detail oriented. Must possess the ability to switch between execution and strategy mode most effortlessly.

- High energy with strong and charismatic communication skills.

- Ability to prioritize and cope with competing demands. Must possess a sense of urgency and excellent execution and project management skills.

- Inquisitive and analytical mind; out-of-the-box thinking; bring a creative perspective to business problems applying functional expertise, business understanding and common sense.

- Thrive in fast-changing environments and ambiguity while being execution-oriented, hands-on, pragmatic and focused on results.

- Collaborative and able to build a work environment that promotes teamwork, partnership, recognition and mutual respect.

- Highest level of integrity and exceptional professionalism.