Assistant Manager/Deputy Manager - Category - Cement

Responsibilities:

- Support the Category Manager in managing the topline and bottom-line, inventory mix of the brands.

- Document processes & develop SOPs wherever required.

- Review & suggest SOP changes required if any to the team based on input from stakeholders

- Working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver on targets.

- Weekly and monthly tracking of business metrics to monitor goals and deep-dive where needed to drive continuous improvement.

- Research competitors and suggest appropriate pricing and promotional activities.

- Create and share various sets of daily, weekly and monthly business reports to provide data intelligence to the internal team.

- Contribute in annual budget decisions for assigned categories.

- Identify & execute strategies to achieve top-line & bottom line targets of assigned categories.

- Ensure material availability at competitive price points by working on vendor relationships to assist construction material sales through construction platforms.

- Act as POC to provide business inputs to lead cataloguing, technical platform development, facilitate platform transactions.

- Identify/ collaborate with buyers to expand product categories and category positioning for visibility & offtakes.

- Analyse data/ insights to determine industry & consumer trends.

- Demand forecast & order placement, ensuring product availability.

Skills Required:

- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English

- MS Excel proficiency - the ability to mine voluminous data for specific details

- Strong analytical skills and an eye for detail.