Manager - Category Management - eCommerce

As a Manager, Category Manager, you will focus on delivering a world-class customer experience and exceptional sales and margin growth for the sub-categories that you are responsible for as we rapidly expand and grow our selection from around the world. The candidate must demonstrate the ability to succeed at: managing and driving a full P&L, planning and forecasting, and driving an online business. He or she must be able to develop clear thinking and business rationale for new features & services to bring customers ease-of-use and innovation. The candidate must be an effective communicator in working with some our most important partners and vendors, as well as with internal colleagues and groups.

Responsibilities

This person will have responsibility for:

- Building selection: Will be responsible for determining customer market needs, growing selection across sub-categories, brands and use cases, managing brand partners and getting support for marketing campaigns.

- Demand generation: Responsible for demand generation. This includes working with other members on the category management team to come up with innovative promotions and site features to improve customer experience.

- Business planning: Develop a short-term and long-term plan for business growth and work with senior management stakeholders on a regular basis on the state of key business metrics and initiatives to achieve category vision.

- Innovation: Invent and drive continuous process improvement and automation across our systems to allow us to scale a fast growing business. This will include liaising with the global community to drive innovation and share best practice.

Basic Qualifications

Demonstrated ability to take ownership and drive results

Strong business judgment with a track record of successful negotiations and overall relationship management.

Ability to think strategically and tactically, with excellent attention to detail

Tenacity to develop ideas independently and thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment

Proven analytical thinking, project management skills, attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills are essential

A track record of success in past roles

Candidate must be fluent in English

Bachelor's degree is required

- Preferred Qualifications

- Master's degree is must

- Experience in consumer-facing sectors such as Retail, FMCG is preferred

- Understanding of fashion products (apparel, shoes, accessories) and experience in buying them is preferred

The position will be based in Bangalore.