Assistant category manager

About the Customer

Company is Indias leading B2B marketplace and New Retail platform serving over 250000 mom & pop stores (Kiranas) across 50 cities in India.

About the Role

Designation : Asst. Category Manager

Were looking for a assistant category manager who can

Make Company the most preferred FMCG & Staples buying destination for Kirana retailers all across India. Drive aggressive and profitable growth in customer (Kirana retailer) base topline bottomline of the assigned categories.

In order to do this you will need to:

Key Responsibilities:

Understand the needs of the customer based on consumption pattern economic status and demographics

Analysis of onapp behavior of customers (search traffic conversion funnel etc)

Understand market trends and factors shaping customer demand and industry dynamics

Analysis of competing offerings available to the customers (across multiple offline and online channels)

Define the customer value proposition and the entire experience for the customer w.r.t. to the category

Create a category strategy and use this to develop annual category plans at overall category and city/regional levels based on topdown and bottomup inputs

Translate into detailed and actionable monthly category plans with clearly defined owners and checkpoints

Own execution of annual and monthly category plans to drive topline and bottomline goals

Define the selection/assortment required to serve the needs of the target customer and work with Category Buyers to list these products and drive their consistent availability on the platform

Improve discovery of the right products and drive higher conversion rates

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

Provide regular inputs to category buyers to help them drive high ROI investments

Work Location:

Bangalore

Work Experience:

12 Years of experience

Background and Requirements

Job Requirements

Mandatory:

High aptitude and thinking ability

Brilliant problem solving skills including problem identification drill down capabilities and ideate solutions

Excellent collaboration skills Work with high performing cross functional teams to achieve the organizational goals

Sound business judgment and an ability to evaluate and manage multiple

competing priorities using metrics and data

Strong analytical skills with advanced proficiency in Excel and analyzing data and ability to generate actionable insights from data

High attention to detail and willingness to dive deep in to the problem

Excellent communication and negotiation skills Ability to influence a variety stakeholders without relying on positional authority

Hunger to work deliver and grow in a rapidly growing organization

Ability to work independently with limited support in a fastpaced high growth environment

Interest in food & grocery industry

Also Preferred but not mandatory:

02 years of experience in a revenue generating team environment

B.Tech / MBA

We would like to hear from candidates who have the hunger to impact real lives and who can match our high bar on Core Values that we live by.

If you

can apply first principles thinking to solve problems

have the fire in your belly to get out of your cube and do something about your vision and passion

want to work with some really smart people and still raise the bar for all of us

can have fun and help your colleagues have fun doing all of the above..