Meesho - Assistant Category Manager

Why join Meesho?

Meesho is building a disruptive distribution channel via social selling on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social channels. Meesho has so far enabled 15,000 suppliers and 2,000,000 resellers to start and grow their online business without any investment, providing tools around sourcing, logistics and payments. These social sellers are small retailers, housewives, students, retired citizens and many other aspiring entrepreneurs across India.

Want to know how Meesho is impacting the lives of resellers across the country? Then hear it from our entrepreneurs here and about Meesho's four year journey here! Plus, we have an awesome work culture at Meesho. Have a look here.

Meesho is Series D funded with a new investment round led by South African company Naspers Ventures along with participation from Facebook and existing investors such as SAIF, Sequoia, Shunwei Capital, RPS and Venture Highway. Meesho is headquartered in Bengaluru, India and was one of the three Indian companies to be selected for Y Combinator in 2016. It was also a part of the first batch of Google Launchpad - Solve for India programme.

What will your role be at Meesho?

- Scaling gold suppliers for the category in terms of right selection, planning, and inventory management

- Analysing top selling products and trends and applying insights to sourcing better

- Devising the best marketing strategy for the category to attract resellers using the platform

- Problem solving for category specific problems on quality, retention, growth and operations and setting up effective tracking for these

Following are key domains where ACM work :

- Driving marketplace growth of the category

- Should be able to identify broader trends and fill category gaps

- Team & account management skills.

- Strong analytical & negotiation skills.

- Assortment planning

- Should be able to coordinate with marketing, supply chain, cataloging team, finance /commercial and other functions of the organization.

- Should have prior experience or enough knowledge & confidence to manage merchandising operations

- Supply Inflow Monitoring

- Planning for sale events

Who are we looking for?

- B.Tech / MBA (Preferably Premium Institute)

- 2-4 Years of experience post qualification

- Should be proficient in Excel Skills

- Good to Have Skills - SQL, Prior Ecommerce Experience, Prior Startup experience