Category Manager - eCommerce

Category Manager

Roles & Responsibilities:

Planning:

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

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

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

Growth:

- Ability to analyse the online funnel for traffic and conversion.

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

- Design, Incubate and Scale new Organic / Inorganic new growth engines for the business.

Category Marketing:

- 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.

People:

- Manage a diverse team.

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

- Mentor and groom the team.

- Be an inspirational leader for the team & a thought leader for the BU.

You should have:

- Educational background - Graduation, MBA is preferred.

- Should have a strong understanding of the West market.

- Prior experience in Growth Marketing is preferred.

Experience/Skills required:

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

- Strong analytical orientation and customer understanding.

- Strong problem solving skills and highly data driven.

- Understanding of marketing and category planning is a must.

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

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

- Strong bias for Action - Flipkart works at a very rapid pace.

Why work with us is must:

- At Flipkart, we promise to maximize what you care about the most. You'll get an opportunity to leave a mark and create your own legacy, you'll have freedom to experiment, learn and grow, you'll get to work with the best in our inclusive teams and experience our culture of care to ensure that you can focus on doing your best work.

- Every Flipster is a Maximiser - Curious, Audacious, Entrepreneurial, Purpose-Driven, Excited By Big Challenges, A Team Player and Inclusive. If this is who you are, then Flipkart is the place where you can thrive.

- We understand that your own aspirations and journeys are unique. So you choose what you want to maximize, and we provide you the platform for it. Because when you maximize, we maximize.

- Visit our career site to know more about what it means to work at Flipkart.