Category Manager - eCommerce (5-10 yrs)

Responsibilities :

- Category Growth Profitability : Responsible for the overall strategy of the product category, driving business growth and achieving revenue and profitability targets for the category.

- Product Development : A key part of the role is owning the product roadmap for your category.

- Work through a structured approach to understand customer needs and market dynamics to identify product selection gaps in assigned categories and create differentiated products.

- Execute the product roadmap for new launches and meet all product launch timelines at the desired specifications and quality.

- Customer Experience : Lifelong is focused on creating exceptional customer experience.

- Category/Product managers are responsible for ensuring super customer experience by

focusing on customer needs and solving for paint points across the product and channel value chain.

- Responsible for value creation based on the category by strong market/customer and understanding competitive dynamics.

- Use a data-driven approach by conducting detailed spend analysis and benchmarking, and

evaluate market and competitive dynamics to create compelling customer value propositions in the product

category.

- Marketing Promotions : Should drive visibility plans, and promotion plans and coordinate the same between the

internal marketing teams. Oversee communication development and the creation and execution of marketing,

promotion and merchandising plans.

- Cross-Functional Capabilities : Effectively work with sales, marketing, supply chain, import, finance/commercial and

other functions of the organization. Drive key vendor relationships for the category, identifying strategic partners and negotiating better terms of trade and deals for customers.

- Management : Inventory health metrics (STR -Full season/Fresh, ROS per day, Stock Cover, Core inventory share, Etc).