eBay - Category Manager - Business & Industrial Segment

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About the team :

eBay India is a small team with a fast-paced work environment and entrepreneurial approach. We are setting up new business grounds up and re-establishing eBay in India

Objective :

eBay is looking for dynamic, customer focused, data driven, result oriented, people and business leader to grow one of the key growth categories. The Category Manager has end-to-end P&L responsibility for category and will be responsible for defining long-term strategic plans, driving day-to-day operational improvement, building and growing strategic relationships with sellers and external partners, and building a high performing team.

The ideal candidate ought to be passionate and obsessed about delivering enhanced, extraordinary experience for customers in their category.

This is a multi-dimensional role for which the candidate should have demonstrated ability to make data driven decisions, excellent business judgment, the ability to plan and prioritize, ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and teams, strong communication skills as well as an ability to use first principles.

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Focus on understanding needs, solving for problem areas, behaviours and preferences of customers in allocated category, and inventing new delightful experiences on their behalf.

- Deep dive and analyse and reflect on customer behaviour data, diligently read daily customer feedback, ratings and defect rates.

- Continuously improve the value eBay provides to its seller base.

- You shall work on diverse initiatives ranging from website feature improvements, driving adoption of seller services, selection acquisition planning, channel mix planning, catalog quality improvement, seller performance management, and more.

- You shall evangelize the strategic vision across these teams, defining shared goals, enabling mechanisms to drive cross-functional initiatives, and delivering strong and consistent results.

- You shall be monitoring and reporting on the performance and growth of their categories on a weekly and monthly basis with all important stakeholders.

- You shall review growth plans, progress and any changes in strategic direction with senior leadership at a regular interval.

Basic Qualifications

- Post-Graduation required, Top tier MBA preferred

- 6+ years of work experience with experience in Online consumer products industries, experience in Electronics (or) Industrial categories preferred

- Ideally pre-existing relationship's and networks in some of the categories

- Consistent track record of taking ownership and driving results

- Demonstrated ability to use quantitative data and qualitative information to develop a business

- Extraordinary social and interpersonal skills, including strong writing and speaking skills

- Excellent relationship builder with strong positive attitude

- Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint

What we Offer :

- A great atmosphere and open company culture

- The complete autonomy to own your role

- The ability to feel that you are working in a startup environment but having the benefits of a MNC