Category Head - FMCG/Retail

Head Category

You are responsible for:

Planning:

- To build a bottom-up short term and the long term demand & supply plan factoring in the inputs from central planning and category teams.

- Work with the team members within the category and in external support functions to execute on strategic objectives.

- Translates the strategy into day-to-day decisions and opportunity identification.

- Closely monitors the business metrics and alters the plan as required.

- Works closely with stakeholders like category managers, IPC, Supply and Demand planning team to come with an in-stock/Inbound plan for a particular category.

Strategy & Design:

- Build the strategic roadmap for the business and drive execution with categories, product teams and various other stakeholders

- Own the fulfillment design/strategy for the BU - Identify the right fulfillment type for each business cohort and operationalize it in a sustainable manner.

Growth:

- Drive growth of the business through horizontal customer initiatives such as acquisition, retention, cross-sell and increasing the wallet-share

- Work with product teams to launch unique initiatives for the BU needs

Category Marketing:

- Own the customer & brand value proposition for the BU

- Work with the marketing team to launch & scale digital brand & performance marketing campaigns.

Customer Experience:

- Drive initiatives with the product & merchandising teams to improve the buying experience of the customer right from pre-purchase decision making to delivery.

Business Operations:

- Drives in stock, inventory turns, and supply chain improvements. Translates data analysis into decision recommendation.

- Ensure asset availability, sellers readiness and right inventory metrics to enable the business to meet its demand numbers.

- Drive the strategic initiatives around operations and sellers to ensure right seller experience and deliver the right customer speed.

- Responsible for capacity planning & utilization, instock & regional utilization & overall inventory health.

People:

- Manage a team

- Build a culture of innovation, self motivation & organization first mindset

- Mentor and groom the team

- Be an inspirational leader

You should have:

- Strong program management skills, multi-tasking ability & interpersonal communication - ability to work with multiple cross-functional teams on fragmented workstreams

- Strong analytical orientation and customer understanding

- Strong product & technical orientation

- Strong Bias for Action.

- Ability to translate strategies into execution plans and take them to completion

- Must be willing to learn & develop ecommerce way of thinking

- Work experience of 12+ years

- Prior experience in supply chain is preferred