Our client is a startup in Social Commerce and looking for a category manager
Qualification/Job Descrption:
- 3-7 Years Work Ex
- Should be presently managing a category in Ecommerce
- Analytical Mindset, Number Driven and Problem Solving Skills
- Process Driven (Structured approach in driving day to day operations in category)
- Customer Interaction (Understanding root problems of a Reseller) and Supplier Communication (Negotiating Discounts, Exclusive Listings)
-- Should be able to coordinate with marketing, supply chain, catalog team, finance / commercial and other functions of the organization.
- Ecommerce Knowledge (Basic understanding of Ecommerce Industry)
- Excel (Google Sheets), PPT Skills (Proficient), SQL (Basic)
- Driving marketplace growth of the category,
- Should be able to identify broader trends and fill category gaps,
- Supplier Relationship building
- Responsible for merchandising
- Assortment planning,
- Should have prior experience or enough knowledge & confidence to manage merchandising operations
- Inbound planning
- Catalogue monitoring
- Discount monitoring
- Discount monitoring etc should be managed.
- 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.
- Category Growth: Driving marketplace growth of the relevant category keeping in mind the consumer and competition.
- 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)
- 3-7 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 organisation
- Should be good at multitasking, critical thinking and comfortable with tactical execution
- Extremely strong analytical problem solving attitude
- Proven track record of finding innovative solutions to business problems
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