Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail - Associate Director - Category (8-12 yrs)

Associate Director - Category

- The major challenge of this role is to manage the life cycle of new launches and active management of business which accounts for >70 % of the business.

- Ensuring code-level discoverability, consideration, and conversion for the brand online by working closely with design, sourcing, marketing, marketplaces, product/ tech, and brand founders.

- Analyze ROS/aging/ DOC and implement the right inwards and right pricing to ensure the brand is rightly placed inventory-wise

- Support the creation of detailed bottom-up month/ qtr/ annual planning

- Support right execution on business metrics to ensure GMV, Inventory-DOC, and Bottomline targets for the brand are met.

- Plan style-level visibility with marketing counterparts to ensure STR is in line with the plan

- Work with design and marketplaces to finalize designs that can sell at healthy GMs.

- Study digital fashion trends and work with partners to create direction for relevant merchandise to be produced.

- Execute monthly merchandise day for the brand to diagnose good, and bad styles and design learnings

Key Skills:

- Strong data orientation

- Experience in inventory planning is a plus

- Experience in pricing is a plus

- Experience in high-width environment Beauty/ Fashion is helpful