Reliance Brands - Category Manager

Company Information:

A pioneer of quality furniture in India, Urban Ladder was founded in 2012 with a simple mission - to make a million homes beautiful. Since 2020, we have been a part of Reliance Retail and today, we are a one stop shop for all furniture and dcor products in India with over 30,000 products from 150 brands delivering across 3000+ pin codes. With an omni-channel presence in all major cities in India, we make exceptional furniture more accessible to people and continue to thrive, helping people create inspiring homes.

We are there to help our customers discover the joy of creating and build spaces that mirror who they are.

The UL Workplace: Magical Careers begin with great work that doesn't come with boundaries. Our people prefer to blaze a trail, instead of keeping the lights on. That's because whether it's sourcing, engineering, design, marketing, customer service or any of our teams; our work is always new, challenging and up-to-the-minute.

About the role:

Urban Ladder has distinguished itself based on design and impeccable service delivery experience. The vision is to continue to differentiate our design promise from the market and prove to be an exciting destination for the customers' home decor aspirations.

As a Category Manager, you will be primarily custodian of range excellence and product performance of our catalog. The role will include driving excellence in product category and subcategory assortment groups by partnering with sundry vendors, ensuring supreme GTM and product availability, and owning product success metrics of Revenue and Margin.

Primary performance indicators.

- Revenue and Margin overall and per category and subcategory

- Assortment in the category across all key price points / sub categories/designs.

- Maximize, Minimize, Optimize, Build

Role will include:

- Hold accountability for category success in both revenue and profitability

- Identity gaps in the category and work with the sourcing team to ensure complete assortment in your category

- Maintain and hold right pricing for each product in your category

- Periodically analyse and derive actionable from historic sales for your category

- Tracking performance of each product in catalogue & derive actionable to improve GMV & $GM.

- Tracking competition continuously & derive any actionable basis any learning.

- Ideate and implement impactful GTM strategy for any new products

- Liaison with marketing team to generate demand for your category

- Build data visibility and dashboards for tracking relevant trends and number

Desired Skills and Functional Experience:

- Experience in category management in top E-commerce companies; Preferred in Furniture category.

- Consumer backed thinking

- Structured thinking

- High Levels of Ownership and Drive

- Proven skills in working with varied stakeholders across functions

- Proven skills in critically analyzing large volumes of data - a keen eye for identifying trends in data

- Willingness to learn rapidly + Ability to consistently make things better

- Clear and articulate communication akin to a person with clarity of thought

- Bias for action and hunger for getting things done while holding deadlines as a non-negotiable

- Extremely hard-working and committed to the cause / values / vision of UL

- Love for beautiful homes, and all things beautiful; a love for aesthetics

- Collaboration and Team Management skills