Netmeds - Category Manager/Senior Category Manager

Netmeds.com is rapidly growing. To continue to do so, we need to bring aboard a few amazing Category Heads to join our team here in Chennai

Title: Category Manager / Senior Manager

Categories: Beauty Care, Eye Care, AYUSH, Family Care (incl personal care, women care, men care, baby care, pet care, Senior Care, Homecare) and Ailments (Conditions like diabetes, pain etc. including tools & devices).

Role:

The Category Head requires to lead the category and drive the P&L, vendor management, pricing, marketing and inventory for the category.

Responsibilities:

- You will be the one responsible for the pricing and overall promotion of a product category to maximize consumer appeal. Relationships with vendors and product range management will also be part of your duties.

- Attain month on month category targets of sale, profitability, product assortment & hygiene and drive growth in all metrics

- Brand Management: Brand strategy through consumer offers, product placement,

- Product Development for Beauty category and Personal Care.

- Owns on-boarding of product catalogue, category merchandising, seller ads and category marketing

- To drive the pricing, shelving, marketing and promotions of the category's products in order to make them as visible, accessible, and appealing to customers.

- Vendor Relationship Management entailing vendor selection & Onboarding brands & importers, monitor their performance and solve grievances.

- Competition mapping and assortment benchmarking for local & imported products.

Skills Needed: P&L exposure, Category Development Strategies, Performance Evaluation, Portfolio Management, Pricing, Trends Identification, Pricing Surveys, Vendor & Product, Budgeting, Negotiating skills

Prefered Industry: E-commerce (preferably from beauty product & personal care segment), FMCG

Experience: Overall 8+ experience and at least 2+ in an E-commerce company

Job Location: Royapettah, Chennai (A candidate who can relocate or is currently in Chennai can only apply for this position)