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Category Manager - Skin Care Segment - FMCG (6-12 yrs)
Position: Category Manager - Skincare.
Role Objective: Execute Brand Vision, Purpose and Visual Identity, where to play - How to win strategies to deliver against business objectives, with a challenger in Beauty & Wellness mentality to win in a fast pace environment. Set and deliver short and long-term initiative masterplan in collaboration with Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Production and Marketing and lead initiatives in the masterplan to drive sales.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design & plan new product launches by regularly spotting market trends
- Develop the full scale new product launch project plan through a well-defined Stage & Gate process
- Align all key activities for product development as per market launch plans.
- Conduct timely reallocations for stores in order to increase business with right product mix.
- Plan the category, abiding by -sales target, stock target, and phasing Out, promotional Budget, Resource Planning
- Analyse category growth drivers.
- Identify and develop new manufacturer suppliers through filters like product quality, capacity, responsible sourcing, commercial negotiations, product & packaging specification as per benchmark.
- Work in close coordination with, procurement, finance, packaging, and operations team for on time availability of products.
- Prepare performance review and margin analysis MIS reports
- Ensure optimum product pricing, costing & margin analysis, sourcing and price negotiation.
- Identify opportunities for process and product improvements; through post launch reviews
- Develop and maintain project plans, communicate with the cross-functional category teams at regular intervals, and highlight the impact of key activities on project delivery and success
- Finalize and innovate the product packaging
- Ensure vendor support & engagement to achieve sales growth
- Working closely with the marketplace team to ensure visibility to our products
- Ensure every order follows SLA provided on website
- Regulate the pricing of products basis the market competition study and margin controls.
- Own key metrics like Category Contribution %, Gross Margin, Sell-through.
- Supervise and monitor the reorder levels for overall inventory.
- Outline quality check parameters and keep in line with Legal Metrology regulations.
- Structure New Products trainings.
Candidature :
- MBA in Marketing /Graduate from relevant subjects with minimum 6 years of experience with at least 3 years of experience leading the category independently.
- Strong product understanding Working knowledge of Cosmetics/beauty, fashion and social trends that are relevant to the continued evolution of the business, experience in Category Management and/or retailer or distributor/vendor collaboration.
- Capable of influencing and persuading a broad range of decision influencers and decision makers; particularly effective in sensitive or high-pressure situations.
- Must be able to analyzes and interpret internal sales data to inform business decisions.
- Ability to independently organize and prioritize workload within a fast-paced environment to meet deadlines
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