Category Manager - eCommerce

JD for Category Manager

- The person would be the business owner for his/ her categories and brands. The role entails building the business and running the P&L, leveraging know-how of internal and external variables to deliver sales and outreach of categories.

- Onboarding new brands, managing brand relationships, building these brands revenue through various channels, inventory management of all channels, Day to day management of the teams and building marketing strategy and execution.

- The role also entails forecasting, monitoring, understanding and reporting for each brand in the categories. The role also requires the incumbent to drive strategic projects and promotions to achieve business objectives.

- Category Growth : Driving marketplace growth of the relevant category keeping in mind the consumer and competition.

- P&L : Owning P&L for the relevant category in alignment with business goals. Responsible for the revenue targets as well as the gross margins.

- Selection : Responsible for merchandising, assortment planning, option plans pre-season as well as in season to ensure that the Category is well represented.

- Trend Spotting : Should be able to identify broader trends and fill category gaps.

Cross Functional Capabilities : Should be able to fruitfully coordinate with marketing, supply chain, cataloguing, finance / commercial and other functions of the organization.

- Supervision and Monitoring of Operations : Should have prior experience or enough knowledge & confidence to manage merchandising operations, inbound planning, cataloguing monitoring & discount monitoring.

- Marketing promotions : Should drive visibility plans, promotion plans and coordinate the same between marketing team & category team.