Flipkart - Senior Brand Manager

About Flipkart :

In 2007, we started the Flipkart journey by selling books online. But now, over a decade later, our story is quite different. Today, Flipkart is India's largest online marketplace and one of India's leading technology powerhouse that is disrupting the way India shops online.

What has got us here? The dynamic, passionate and talented folks we call Flipsters!

Our core values define our identity and form the basis of our actions and reflect in everything that we do at Flipkart. Values enable us to shape the desired organizational culture in which each Flipster can thrive and be at their best.

We believe in taking bold bets and changing the paradigm, having a sense of urgency to solve problems strategically and putting great ideas into action. We look at the world from our customer's point of view and keep customers at the heart of everything we do. We strive to do the right thing always and be committed to our customers and stakeholders.

About the team :

Flipkart's Private Label business is amongst the fastest growing Business Units across Flipkart with a portfolio of 10+ private label brands. The Flipkart Private Label philosophy is to launch high quality products that meet customer needs at very affordable prices. With this philosophy in mind, the Private Label team has launched 1000+ SKUs across 150 categories with high product ratings and superior customer experiences.

The team's endeavor to is continuously launch high quality products across categories at very affordable prices.

What you'll do :

1. New Product Launches :

- Product Development & Launch Network Management

- Defining Product Requirements (Specs & Target Costs that meet customer needs, competitive product popularity and affordable pricing) that the Sourcing Team would use for Product Development with Global Suppliers

- Structuring the Annual product launch pipeline plans based on Sales AOPs, Category & Customer needs and product trends

- Collaborating with the Sourcing, Quality & Finance teams to ensure timely Product development, Quality testing, Production and Logistics delivery to Flipkart Warehouses for new product launches

2. Product Portfolio Management :

- Sales, P&L, Marketing and Inventory Replenishment

- Developing the Portfolio & delivering AOPs across Categories Brands based on overall Flipkart sales projections, planned target share of category sales and new product launch plans

- Managing Sales, P&L, Visibility, Marketing, Category Share, Inventory Availability and New Product Development across a large portfolio of Categories & brands

3. Team Management :

- Managing a team of Brand managers that own product launches and sales for their respective categories

- Responsible for hiring, nurturing the right talent.

What you'll need :

- Prior experience in Brand Management would be an added advantage

- Strong project management/organizational skills

- Strong analytical orientation / bent of mind and customer understanding

- Ability to translate strategies into execution plans and take them to completion

- Must be willing to learn & develop ecommerce way of thinking

- Strong program management skills, multi-tasking ability & interpersonal communication

- Ability to work with multiple cross-functional teams on fragmented workstreams

- Strong bias for Action - Flipkart works at a very rapid pace

- Product Portfolio Management experience on Sales, P&L and Inventory Availability

- Project Management experience working with more than 5+ key partner teams

- Understanding of customer segmentation and customer needs

- Marketing Experience would be require