Category Manager - eCommerce - IIM/ISB/FMS/MDI

Career opportunity with India's largest eCommerce Company

Role: Category Manager

Education: Tier 1 B School

Industry: FMCG/ Retail/ eCommerce

Experience: 3+ years after Post Graduate (Only Female Candidate)

Roles & Responsibilities:

This person will have responsibility for:

- Building selection: Will be responsible for determining customer market needs, growing selection across sub-categories, brands and use cases, managing brand partners and getting support for marketing campaigns.

- Demand generation: Responsible for demand generation. This includes working with other members on the category management team to come up with innovative promotions and site features to improve customer experience.

- Business planning: Develop a short-term and long-term plan for business growth and work with senior management stakeholders on a regular basis on the state of key business metrics and initiatives to achieve category vision.

- Innovation: Invent and drive continuous process improvement and automation across our systems to allow us to scale a fast growing business. This will include liaising with the global our client's community to drive innovation and share best practice.

Skills & Experience:

Basic Qualifications

- Demonstrated ability to take ownership and drive results

- Strong business judgment with a track record of successful negotiations and overall relationship management.

- Ability to think strategically and tactically, with excellent attention to detail

- Tenacity to develop ideas independently and thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment

- Proven analytical thinking, project management skills, attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills are essential

- A track record of success in past roles

- Candidate must be fluent in English

- Bachelor's degree is required

Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree is preferred

- Experience in consumer-facing sectors such as Retail, FMCG is preferred

- Understanding of fashion products (apparel, shoes, accessories) and experience in buying them is preferred

- Experience in fashion import in either online or offline retail