Vendor Manager/Category Manager - Textile

- A Vendor Manager will focus on delivering exceptional sales and margin growth for a category that you will be responsible for.

- You will also be responsible for signing the right mix of vendors, smart pricing, driving growth and margin improvements while operating within inventory guardrails

Your day-today tasks will include:

Build selection and terms negotiation:

- Will be responsible for determining customer market needs, growing selection across the category, brands and use cases, managing vendor partners, optimizing vendor terms, and getting support for promotions.

Drive efficiency:

- Inventory turns / OTB Management: Will be responsible for operating on industry benchmark inventory turns for the category and generating a positive/self-sustaining business by efficient OTB management.

Strategize Pricing:

- Responsible for pricing strategy for the category so that we can offer the customers the best value, value being a combination of price and any convenience. Also, be responsible for using pricing as a lever to ensure efficient cash flow management against the profitability goal.

- Build Business plan and communicate to senior management-

- Develop a short-term and long-term plan for growth and report to Senior Management on a regular basis on the state of key topline and bottom-line metrics and risk factors.

Manage Brands:

- Manage all the input and output metrics for your respective set of brands/ vendors. Work closely with the vendors to ideate, finalize, and execute the joint business plans with the brands/vendors.

Innovate:

- Invent and drive continuous process improvement and automation across our systems to allow us to scale a fast-growing business.

Knowledge you need:

- Launching new brands on platform.

- Risk assessment.

- Proactively manage and nurture vendor relationships.

- Measure vendor performance.

- Managing P&L, terms of business and models, buying cost, price and quality benchmarking and portfolio management for the brands.

Education & Work Experience:

- 3 - 6 years of experience.

- Full-Time MBA Btech/ Bachelors in Textile

- Experience as a sales manager / vendor manager / category manager / account manager role.

- Launched new brands on platforms.

- Ideal candidate worked in Ecommerce/Retail/FMCG background in Apparels