Manager/Senior Manager - Category - P&L Management - Footwear - IIM/ISB/FMS/MDI

Job Title : Senior Category Manager / Category Manager

Vertical : Footwear Business

Location : Gurgaon

Candidate Profile :

- 5+ years of relevant experience in Category P&L Management

- Excellent Communication skills

- Negotiation Skills

Broad KRA :

- Handling the Category P&L management and assume responsibility for the growth of respective category.

- Create an assortment of products which is in line with the company's Sales and Margin Plan

- Improvement of Margins

- Planning the brand assortment.

- Keeping stocks in control / ample pipeline / request for refills.

- Liaison with merchandising team to ensure that business goals are aligned across functions.

- To ensure 100% customer satisfaction through Seller/brand level monitoring of the NPS score vis-a-vis- Delivery Time, Product Quality, Wrong SKU delivered, etc.

- Identifying opportunities for growth.

- Initiating activities like negotiations for pricing, propositions and margins for the products for Web, TV and other special promotions

- Managing, training and supervising team members across merchandising and buying.

- Responsible for the top line and bottom line for their respective category.

Skills & Qualification :

- Management Graduates from Tier 1 Colleges

- Prior experience in Buying, Planning and category Management

- Comfort with numbers and rapid on-going analysis

- Understanding of the user over internet

- Hands on ability to execute independently