Vendor Manager - FMCG/Retail

What will you do :

- 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 promotions.

- 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 topline and bottom-line metrics and risk factors.

- Vendor Management - manage all the input and output metrics for your respective set of brands/ vendors. Work closely with the vendors to ideate, finalize and execute the joint business plans with the brands/ vendors.

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

What will you need :

- Master's degree in business management

- 2-6 years of relevant experience in sales manager/vendor manager/category manager/account manager role

- Demonstrated ability to take ownership and drive results

- Strong business judgement, with a track record of successful negotiations and overall relationship management.

- Ability to think strategically and tactically, with excellent attention to detail

- Tenacity to develop ideas independently and thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment

- Proven analytical thinking, project management skills, attention to detail and exceptional organisational skills are essential

- A track record of success in past roles

- Excellent communication skills