DealShare - Associate Director - Category Management

Associate Director Category Management

Purpose of Role : The Associate Director Category Management will manage the company's sourcing portfolio, ensuring, and implementing efficient Sourcing and Category Management strategies.

Reporting and location : Incumbent will be reporting into the VP Commodities/FMCG and will be based out of Mumbai Location

Key Roles and Responsibilities :

- Growth : Own Category P&L, Selection, Assortment to drive exponential revenue growth and margins

- Selection : Responsible for Sourcing/ Buying, merchandising, assortment planning to ensure that DealShare has a leadership position in identified segments. You should have an eye for identifying changing consumer trends and consequent business opportunity

- Marketing promotions : Collaborate with the marketing and business teams to drive the marketing plans for the category including category and product promotion plans

- Strategy : Own, define and drive growth strategy across category, products, consumer segments, geographies

- Category Operations : Manage merchandising operations, Inbound planning, Catalogue monitoring and margin

- Insights : New User, New Channels, New Products, Automation to beyond metro, beyond google, next 500 million users

- Analytics : Market Research, Consumer Insights, Competitive landscape, Business Intelligence

- Stakeholder Management : Drive growth through Marketing, Operations and CS

- Negotiate and manage a strong relationship with vendors

- Conduct competition benchmarking

- Special Projects: Lead business critical special projects involving stakeholders across functions like marketing, operations, supply chain etc.

Skills & Competency :

- Deep domain expertise in the identified category and geographies, are essential for this role

- The role is required to work on deliver on daily numbers, short-term goals and long-term milestones set by business and efficacy. Meeting these milestones would be critical to create success.

- The role needs the individual to be able to solve for a given business problem in sometimes an ambiguous state and with multiple data streams impacting decision making

- Strong data driven problem-solving skills, eye for extreme details and process led.

- The role requires the incumbent to work closely and coordinate with the Internal and external teams to create success. She/he should be able to seamlessly navigate these relationship dynamics in a high growth, young, agile business environment.

- Startup Cultural Fit - willingness to learn, to innovate, to take initiative, to think out of the box, hustle, ability to execute

- Ability to lead a team

- Strong English Communication verbal and written skills

- Strong negotiation skills

Required :

- 10+ years of relevant experience in Sourcing

- Graduate

Good to Have : MBA from a reputed college is not necessary but will be considered a plus