Category Manager - eCommerce Startup

An excellent opportunity for enterprising professionals to join India's largest B2B e-commerce platform, leading the way and influencing the next generation of offline retail!

Our client is a disruptive startup in the offline retail market that is creating an enterprising platform to bridge retailers and manufacturers across India. Founded by a dynamic duo of IITians with decades of rich experience in companies like Intel, Flipkart, Myntra BCG and Apple, the company is on its journey to make manufactured products more accessible and thereby build some serious competitiveness in the offline retail segment.

As the Category Manager, you will manage relationships and take accountability of the end to end delivery of projects to lead category growth.

What you will do:

- Owning P&L for the category(-ies), including GMV and profitability targets

- Identifying market trends in non-branded fashion in target regions, gaps within category(-ies) and ensure that they are addressed.

- Identifying, launching and growing categories and sub-categories (hero-products, new entrants)

- Defining winning attributes of selection, measure selection performance; taking responsibility for merchandising and assortment planning

- Using deep understanding of customer needs to evolve the company product offering in cooperation with the Product team

- Working closely with various internal teams across Product, Central Operations, Sales, Sourcing, Marketing, etc.

- Ensuring the right selection of suppliers, helping the Sourcing team to maintain relationships with key suppliers and ensuring that the company is the preferred partner

- Measuring and reporting performance to internal and external stakeholders.

Candidate Profile:

What you need to have:

- 4-8years of experience in category management or adjacent functions (merchandising, partnerships, etc)

- 2+ years of work experience in category management

- Knowledge of apparel industry - 2+ years of work in fashion/apparel

- Experience with apparel retail distribution

- Effective communication skills

- Appreciation of dynamic environment with rapidly changing priorities

- History of successful project ownership using data to identify and prioritize deliverables

- Analytical skills

Experience: 4 to 8 years