Head Category Merchandising

As the Category/Merchandising Head at AEL or Group Companies, your role involves creating a category plan aligned with the organization's requirements and implementing it in coordination with the Business Unit (BU) strategy and teams. You will be responsible for maintaining key account management, brand alliances, and seller relationship management. Your key responsibilities will include: - Developing and implementing a category plan in alignment with the BU. - Managing key account relationships, brand alliances, and seller management. - Onboarding and maintaining new sellers and brands to enhance customer experience. - Building assortment, monitoring pricing and inventory according to sales and margin plans. - Identifying trends and onboarding new assortments per seasonal planning. - Leading consumer experience through product quality parameters. - Overseeing buying, merchandising, quality benchmarking, and market intelligence. - Managing vendor relationships, ensuring quality, availability, and negotiating prices. - Balancing product pricing and availability based on demand and seasonality. - Achieving targets related to sales, margin, promo negotiations, and stock planning. - Researching competitors for market understanding and suggesting pricing strategies. - Controlling inventory and ensuring timely product availability. - Developing pricing strategies to provide value to business units. Your work experience and skills should include: - Good communication skills. - Understanding of business dynamics. - Experience in Category Management and merchandising. - Subject Matter Expertise in specific product categories. - Experience in the Building material manufacturing sector. - Product marketing expertise including competitive analysis and trend forecasting. - Product life cycle management and catalog quality management. - Market analysis and achieving volume and profit goals. For this role, a Master's degree, preferably an MBA, is required. The salary range will be as per the company's policy, and the age limit is below 45 years.,