Category Manager - Sell Side - Grocery & FMCG

Category Manager - Sell Side -NON Food and Beverages

Job Description:

- Understand customer needs and decision making criteria with respect to your category.

- Understand market trends and factors shaping customer demand.

- Understand competing options available to the customers across offline and online channels.

- Own the sales and margin targets for your category.

- Create and own category strategy.

- Create and execute monthly, quarterly annual sales plans by planning sales at single SKU level.

- Translate into detailed and actionable plans with clearly defined owners and checkpoints.

- Own pricing and price competency for all products in your category.

- Own creation and execution of targeted promotions & campaigns Track campaign performance daily and work with merchandising and marketing teams to improve ROI.

- Own the on-app experience - look and feel of the app; esp around your category pages.

- Analyze on-app behavior of customers (search, traffic, conversion funnel etc) and improve all key metrics.

- Improve discoverability of the right products.

Signs of a fit:

- First Principles Problem solver.

- Self driven: Ability to work independently with limited support in a fast-paced, high growth environment.

- Committed: Hunger to work, deliver, and grow in a rapidly growing organization.

- Experimentative mindset: Ideate, try, measure, learn, document and help improve our ways of working.

- Excellent collaboration skills.

- Willingness to getting your hands dirty : Learn from customers, manufacturers and on ground teams about their business and challenges.

- Strong analytical skills with advanced proficiency in Excel.

- Good communication and negotiation skills - Ability to influence a variety stakeholders without relying on positional authority.

- Interest in grocery and FMCG industry.