Titan - Brand Manager - Girls Bags & Accessory - Fastrack

Scope of the role:

- Managing the Girls Bags category across product management, visual merchandising & communication.

Job Profile:

Product Management:

- Driving the New Product Development process as per the brand design calendar

- Managing the product range-width & developing it across different clusters for guys & girls.

- Product costing & pricing

- Cluster Management: Display of clusters, tracking retail sales and stocks of clusters

- Tracking consumer needs & changing consumer preferences and accordingly changing mix

- Product availability - supply at national level against plan & sales forecast - collaboratively with SCM team. Distribution strategy for new products

- Driving & Managing the Visual merchandising at stores for these categories

- Liasoning with internal (design, sourcing) & external agencies (vendor, CFAs, Supply chain) to deliver collections to the market

- Assisting the marketing head on brand level initiatives

Key Deliverables:

- Delivering product collections as per calendar

- Ensuring product gross margins for respective product clusters

- Retail sales figures as per target

- Aligning product, VM etc with brand identity

- Ensuring appropriate product mix availability to markets

The right person:

- Graduate in any discipline with MBA marketing

- 6-7 years experience in (sales & marketing) in the lifestyle or consumer goods industry.

- Must have prior experience of product management within the bags category - understanding of material, costs, design will be an added advantage

- An ideas person

- Should like to travel into markets & work closely with sales team / retailers in the field.

- Attitudinal fit with the youth category/brand & enthusiasm & drive - experience in this segment will an added advantage

- Good communication skills