Lifelong Online - Sourcing Manager - Healthcare Segment - IIT/NIT/IIM/ISB/FMS/MDI

Sourcing Manager - Health Care

About Lifelong

Lifelong Online is a leading, digital first, consumer durable brand. We design home and wellness appliances with a vision to create durable, quality and long lasting products for the modern Indian household. Started in 2015, with just the Mixer Grinders' category, we have grown to now include more than 160 products in five categories. Our products are sold through multiple online and offline partners. Our presence on online retail platforms include Amazon, Flipkart, Tata Cliq, Nykaa, PayTM, Snapdeal and 1Mg.With innovation at the core of everything we do, we have embraced a customer centric approach from the very start. We conduct extensive research to understand the evolving needs of the Indian consumer, before we enter a new category or launch a new product.

Role : Associate Sourcing Manager

Location : Gurgaon

Responsibilities :

- Responsible for the sourcing of products from Indian and China factories

- Negotiating best prices and favorable payment terms to the company

- Driving end to end process from sampling, production follow-up, shipments

- Working with cross-functional teams like Design team on developing artworks for packaging boxes, Engineering team for quality checks of product, training customer support on new launches etc.

- Driving top line and bottom line for their respective category

- Drives Business growth, and Market Share of the Specific Category with strong product, competition and consumer analytics.

- Delivering Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Annual -Revenue, Margin, Markdown targets

- Implementation of plans for category in areas of price, promotion & assortment.

- Dealing with various vendors-merchandising activities like calculating trims / raw material, costing of product.

- Monitoring product lifecycle of every product in the category and take early calls for opportunity maximization

- Accurately forecasting trends, planning stock and monitoring performance.

Skills & Qualification :

- Tier 1 Business School with 2+ years' experience post MBA or Tier 1 Engineering Graduates

- Prior experience in Planning and Category Management, B2B sales / marketing role with team management capability preferred

- Self-starter, problem solver to identify process gaps and trouble shoot them

- Ability to execute in rapid growth and fast paced environment -ability to work with ambiguity in a start-up environment