Category Manager - FMCG/Online

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 pre-season 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, cataloguing, 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

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

- 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