Senior Category Manager - eCommerce

Senior Category Manager

Opening for Senior Category Manager in one of the leading E-commerce company at Bangalore

About the Role :

- As a Senior Category Manager, you will focus on delivering exceptional sales and margin growth for the sub-categories that you are responsible for as we rapidly expand and grow our selection, keeping the customers always at the center of all decisions you take.

- He or she will be responsible for signing the right mix of vendors, smart pricing, driving margin improvements and operating within strict goals around inventory turns and OTB management

Responsibilities :

This person will have responsibility for :

Building selection and terms negotiation :

- Will be responsible for determining customer market needs, growing selection across sub-categories, brands and use cases, managing vendor partners, optimizing vendor terms and getting support for marketing campaigns.

Drive efficiency :

- Inventory turns / OTB Management: Will be responsible for operating on industry benchmark inventory turns for the category and generating a positive/self-sustaining business by efficient OTB management

Pricing :

- Responsible for pricing strategy for the category so that we can offer to the customers the best value, value being a combination of price and any convenience.

- Candidate will also be responsible for using pricing as a lever to ensure efficient cash flow management against the profitability goal.

Business planning and communication to senior management :

- Develop a short-term and long-term plan for growth and report to Senior Management on a regular basis on the state of key top line and bottom-line metrics and risk factors.

Joint Planning with Marketplace team :

- Work closely with the marketplace team to ensure sufficient visibility to our products and jointly participate in the marketing events conducted on the platform.

Innovation :

- Invent and drive continuous process improvement and automation across our systems to allow us to scale a fast growing business.