Marketplace Manager - FMCG/Food

Focusing on the ever-growing demand in the food industry, our client acts as a neighborhood artisan bakery at a national scale. The main concept here is to provide freshly baked, high-on-quality, authentic European bakery products and breads. Their products include sourdough loaves, artisan breads, croissants & rolls, freshly baked cookies, cakes, premixes etc.

Headquartered in Mumbai, our client was co-founded in 2013 by a husband and wife duo, one of whom is an IIM-Ahmedabad graduate and the other is an internationally trained baker.

Starting with 4 bakers in 2013 and growing over time, today, our client prepares more than 10,000 loaves of bread a day and their creations are shared with all of India.

As a Marketplace Manager, you will be responsible for generating revenue in the Marketplace vertical across all E-commerce platforms as per the company's business plan.

What you will do:

- Devising a strategy unique to each E-commerce portal

- Developing a team under them responsible for different accounts and activities

- Developing relationships with the customers i.e Category Managers of E-commerce companies

- Finalizing and executing JBP (Joint Business Plans) on an annual basis with each marketplace and Category Manager

- Getting timely POs and ensuring quantities are in line with targets

- Ensuring expiry and return is capped or within the company's targeted limit

- Ensuring visibility of the brand and the product on all E-Comm/ Quick - Comm portals

- Designing and running marketing campaigns on these portals and reporting its ROI with analytics

- Ensuring timely payments

Candidate Profile:

What you need to have:

- Ability to establish a healthy working relationship with their counterparts in customer companies

- Strong communication, leadership and interpersonal skills

- Demonstrated creative and critical thinking skills

- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously

- Strong in Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets and PowerPoint etc

- Positive approach to problem solving