Tumbledry Solutions - Category Manager

Company Name: Duckduckbaby

Company Website: https://duckduckbaby.in/

Company profile :

DuckDuckBaby is an omnichannel brand dedicated to maternity and baby care, offering a seamless shopping experience across mobile app, website, and brick-and-mortar stores. Our curated product range supports every stage from pregnancy to early childhood, blending convenience, trust, and expert-backed quality for modern parents.

Role Definition / Summary:

This role will be responsible for driving sales through ecommerce platform for the assigned categories under duckduckbaby.in platform. The person would be the business owner for his/ her categories. The role entails leveraging know how of internal and external variables to deliver sales and outreach of categories. The role entails forecasting, monitoring, understanding and reporting on the category. The role also requires the incumbent to drive strategic projects and promotions to achieve overall business objectives.

Responsibilities / Deliverables Driving Sales:

- Responsible for top-line revenue goals within the established investment budget to achieve P&L goals

- Responsible for developing, implementing, managing and reporting on plans to improve site metrics by increasing conversion, AOV, and other KPIs

- Manage website content to align with monthly promotions, seasonal promotions and overall marketing strategy

- Manage optimal inventory and right assortment for the category at any given time

- Develop and implement a comprehensive category strategy aligned with the company's overall business objectives. This involves understanding market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape to identify growth opportunities and define strategic initiatives

- Assortment Planning: Determine the range of products to be offered within the category along with collaborating with suppliers and internal stakeholders to select and negotiate the best assortment mix

Monitoring Brand performance:

- Negotiate budgets, set goals, monitor and report on performance

- Secure Margins in line with overall guidance with negotiations with the brands

- Plan and execute brand campaigns across various platforms and take corrective actions to stay on course of the plan

- Meet the plan for recognition and awareness of accountable brands

- Report performance against key metrics in approved formats

Improve customer experience and retention:

- Develop processes and procedures to drive customer retention

- Analyse user experience across channels and touch points through web analytics and determine potential improvements

Experience :

- Up to 2 years of Category or Brand management experience with any reputed e-commerce player.

Education:

- Must have a bachelor's degree in any stream.

- MBA will be strongly preferred.

Skills:

- Negotiation Skills

- Execution Management

- Client Relationship Management

- Analytical skills

- Business presentation skills

Competencies:

- Planning and Prioritizing

- Collaboration

- Extrovert

- Problem solving

- People Management