GlowRoad - Senior Category Manager - Fashion

About GlowRoad

Glowroad is building India's most profitable social e-commerce platform where resellers share the catalog of products through their network on Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, etc and convert them to sales. Glowroad is on a mission to create micro-entrepreneurs (resellers) who can set up their web-store, market their products and track all transactions through its platform. Glowroad app has ~5M downloads and 1 lakhs DAU's.

Glowroad has been funded by Accel Partners and recently raised series B+ funding for a total of 24.5 million USD. We are scaling our operations across India.

Glowroad is looking for team members passionate about building platforms for next billion users and reimagine the e-commerce for mobile-first users. A great environment, a fun, open, energetic and creative environment. Approachable leadership, filled with passionate people, Open communication and provides high growth for employees.

Position: (Senior) Category Manager

As a Category Manager, you will focus on delivering a world-class customer experience and exceptional sales and margin growth for the categories that you are responsible for as we rapidly expand and grow our selection from around the world.

Job Responsibilities

- Category Growth: Driving marketplace growth of the relevant category keeping in mind the consumer and competition.

- 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, cataloging, 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, Cataloging monitoring & Discount monitoring, etc should be managed.

- 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.

- Marketing promotions: Should drive visibility plans, promotion plans and coordinate the same between the internal marketing teams and that of the sellers

Required Qualification

- 3 - 8 yrs of relevant work experience

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

- He/She should be good at multitasking, critical thinking and comfortable with leading a team.

- Extremely strong analytical problem-solving attitude

- Proven track record of finding innovative solutions to business problems

Location: Whitefield, Bangalore