Job Description

Category Manager-(Private Label)Responsible for Overall Own Label Business(optional)- Understand the available market opportunity for new and existing categories.- Stock availability, stock turnover, Category Assortment Expansion.- New Product development by identifying new Vendors.- Drive the Sales, Margin, and Inventory.- Managing overall operations including Buying & Merchandising, Vendor Management, Demand Planning, Inventory Management, etc.- Steering merchandising efforts in harmony with the business objectives.- Provide support and guidance for fulfilling statutory requirement related to new Products.- Should be strong at National Sourcing & TOT Negotiation.- Participates in development of strategic direction and annual strategic plans for category. Prepares Business plan and ensures sales, gross margin, and contribution targets are achieved.- Understands the consumer, customer, and competitive environment and utilizes that insight to initiate recommendations in marketing mix (product, price, place, and promotion) and new business/new products.- Lead projects comprised of cross-functional teams to achieve key initiative deliverables.- Works directly with digital, content, creative departments, and agency to develop, branding, Artwork, and advertising strategies.- Performs qualitative and quantitative market research on New products and innovation, packaging concepts, positioning, pricing, and promotion.Key Skills Required :- Stakeholder management : Work with internal and external stakeholders to drive the project forward.- Business acumen and decision making : Strong orientation for learning and quickly grasp- Business nuances. Ability to take decisions based on sound data analysis and business understanding.- Customer Centricity : Puts the customer experience paramount to all other considerations- Problem solving : Deal with complexity and unstandardized processes to come up with quick scalable solutions to problems- Data orientation: Should be able to build an approach to solving problems through data first category management, assortment planning, p&l management, vendor management- Candidate must have experience with similar products that co. has to offer and must be willing to work in grocery/any other category- Should be from retail/e-commerce background (ref:updazz.com)

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