Associate Category Management

Role: Associate – Category Management

Team: Category – Women’s Western Wear

Base Location: Bengaluru

Type: Full Time

Roles & Responsibilities

? Business Development and New Vendor Onboarding: Identify whitespace in the portfolio and develop

potential brands to achieve business objectives

? Business Metrics Achievement: Achieve business metrics of Revenue, GM, and CM

Taking appropriate

action if any of the metric is being not achieved and highlighting the risk in advance

Improvement in

catalog & inventory health, profitability metrics, and visibility metrics through pricing guidelines, selection

improvement, portfolio rationalization, etc,

? Sourcing and Vendor Management: Must have knowledge of apparel sourcing to meet business demands

in terms of product costing, quality, aesthetic, and design requirement

Must closely work with vendors to

manage the execution and go-live timeline

? Operations: MIS and data reporting – daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly as per requirement

Bench-

marking of Competition and industry best practices

Overall execution of day-to-day operations and

resolution of vendor queries

Qualifications & Experience

? Candidate should have 2-4 years’ experience in fashion apparel/fabric sourcing or product development,

and a positive outlook towards work

? Candidate must have completed Graduation

NIFT and Pearl preferred but not mandatory

? Good communications skills and ability to manage multiple cross-functional stake holders

? Strong analytical skills and ability to adapt as per the situational requirement

? Ability to multi-task and meet project deadlines, taking complete end-to-end ownership

? Must work well in an unstructured work environment

? Active problem solver who can work with data effectively

? Great team player with demonstrated traits in previous work experience / projects

? Preferred (but not mandatory): E-com experience

? Willingness to travel 15 days a month to key apparel hubs such as Surat, Jaipur, Delhi, Tirupur, Kolkata,

Ludhiana, etc,