Reliance Retail - Category Manager - Footwear

- Driving sales for managed portfolio- understand business opportunities and create a growth plan in co-ordination with cluster teams

- Develop category level growth strategies by driving organizational agendas

- Actively participating in the planning for all merchandising and promotional campaigns

- Competitive analysis with respect to assortment and pricing to identify cluster-level selection gaps; expected to drive corrective actions

- Developing short term and long term business strategies with the sellers in collaboration cluster heads; required to travel frequently to clusters

- Demand and trend forecasting

- Monitor and strengthen marketplace operations for managed portfolio

- In-depth data analysis to evaluate customer behaviour and needs; expected to perform market visits on a regular basis to develop customer insights

- Should be able to coordinate effectively with marketing, supply chain, catalogue, commercial and other functions

- Coach and mentor new members of the team so they are effective team members and understand their work function and responsibilities