Category Manager - Private Label

What would you be doing?

• Responsible for Overall Own Brand FMCG/Gourmet Business. • New Product development by identifying new Vendors. • Understand the available market opportunity for new and existing categories. • Drive Pricing, Margin, and Inventory. • Stock availability, stock turnover, Category Assortment Expansion. • Managing overall operations including Buying & Merchandising, Vendor Management, Demand Planning, Inventory Management, etc. • Provide support and guidance for fulfilling statutory requirement related to new Products. • Participate 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. • 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

Who are we looking for?

5 years of relevant experience. Graduation / Postgraduate from any reputed institution. Strong problem-solving skills and the capacity to handle complex software challenges. Team player with excellent communication skills and a customer-oriented approach, with a focus on knowledge sharing and team collaboration. The person should have high enthusiasm and motivation. Willing to take additional responsibilities and should be a self-starter. Ability to work and manage stakeholders at a varied level. Strong Decision Making & Influencing Skills.