Senior Category Manager - Social Commerce Startup - IIT/IIM/BITS/MDI/XLRI

Our client is a startup in Social Commerce and looking for a category manager

Qualification/Job Description :

- 3-7 Years Work Ex

- Should be presently managing a category in Ecommerce

- Analytical Mindset, Number Driven and Problem Solving Skills

- Process Driven (Structured approach in driving day to day operations in category)

- Customer Interaction (Understanding root problems of a Reseller) and Supplier Communication (Negotiating Discounts, Exclusive Listings)

- Should be able to coordinate with marketing, supply chain, catalog team, finance / commercial and other functions of the organization.

- Ecommerce Knowledge (Basic understanding of Ecommerce Industry)

- Excel (Google Sheets), PPT Skills (Proficient), SQL (Basic)

- Driving marketplace growth of the category

- Should be able to identify broader trends and fill category gaps,

- Supplier Relationship building

- Responsible for merchandising

- Assortment planning,

- Should have prior experience or enough knowledge & confidence to manage merchandising operations

- Inbound planning

- Catalogue monitoring

- Discount monitoring

- Discount monitoring etc should be managed.

- PnL : Owning P&L for the relevant category in alignment with business goals. The Category manager would be responsible for the revenue targets as well as the gross margins.

- Category Growth : Driving marketplace growth of the relevant category keeping in mind the consumer and competition.

- Marketing Promotions : Should drive visibility plans, promotion plans and coordinate the same between the internal marketing teams and that of the sellers

What we look for :

- Graduate from a Tier-1 College (IIT/IIM/BITS/MDI/XLRI)

- 3-7 yrs of work experience

- Startup Cultural Fit : willingness to learn, to innovate, to take initiative, to think beyond conventional dogma, ability to work in a flat organisation

- Should be good at multitasking, critical thinking and comfortable with tactical execution

- Extremely strong analytical problem solving attitude

- Proven track record of finding innovative solutions to business problems