Reliance Retail - Manager - Category/Business Planning & Strategy - IIM/ISB/XLRI/FMS/MDI

Job Specification Form

Unique Job Role(UJR): Manager - Category Planning

Reporting to (Position): Head - Category Planning

Business Unit: Ecommerce

Function: Planning

Job Mandate

- Strong analytical skills and data driven approach to decision making

- Maturity to handle ambiguous business scenarios and arrive at logical business solutions with limited data / uncertainties

- Excellent communication and project management skills

- Proficiency in MS-Office is must. Knowledge of BI tools / statistics added advantage

Key Responsibilities

- Looking at mid to long term planning and buying directions/strategies

- Preparing merchandise plans and OTB plans aligned with AOP

- Driving data based decisions for key planning metrics like- Stock cover, GM%, Discounting, Ageing, Sell thru, Full price sell thru

- Take ownership to drive automation and proactive alerts/mechanism within respective functions

- Working with cross functional teams (Product, Finance, SCM, Marketing) to drive bigger strategic projects and initiatives

- Coordinate various project activities with different departments, follow-up on agreed upon milestones and maintain tracker for critical projects with weekly updates

- Conduct analysis for assigned business problem by collecting data from all internal and external sources and perform analysis to get answers to business questions.

- Help in putting together business proposal based on trends etc.

- Put together excel models for business scenario analysis

- Conduct Market research for an assigned topic to dig out relevant data and analytics

Educational Qualifications MBA - Preferably IIMs/ISB/Tier-1 Schools

Prior work experience in Retail / ecommerce / Management Consulting added advantage

Years of Experience 4 - 7 years