Job Description :

- Establishing and executing product strategy, and identify, on board and partner with vendors to drive business growth.

- Analyse data or insights to determine industry and consumer trends

- Devise long-term development strategies for product categories.

- Develop exit strategies for unsuccessful products.

- Foster trust relationships with vendors to achieve better pricing and quality of services

- Collaborate with buyers and merchandisers to expand product categories

- Assume responsibility of budget development and revenue for category

- Make forecasts for product demand to ensure the sustainability of inventory

- Managing multiple vendors such as developing and evaluating them on certain parameters & Carrying out optimization of vendors

- Closely studying past sales data to determine trends in productivity

- Suggesting adjustments and revisions to promotional strategies to take sales and profitability to the next level.

- Helping new vendors to meet impossibilities and building relationships with them.

- Delivering a world-class customer experience and exceptional sales and margin growth for assigned categories.

- Strategic planning across category for short-term as well as long-term horizons.

- Determining customer market needs, growing selection across sub-categories, brands and use cases, managing vendor, negotiating and optimizing vendor terms and getting support for marketing campaigns.

- Build strong relationships with existing vendors and execute negotiations to secure best pricing, sales programs, promotional support, exclusivity, bundling etc.

- Developing with Pricing team overall pricing strategy and promotional calendar across categories to drive sales and profit goals, by conducting relevant market research on competitors and products.

- Responsible for ensuring the latest assortments is available on the portal and keep identifying opportunities to bring on new product lines for assigned category/ ies.

- Identify and develop new market opportunities and create a road-map for category to improve on all key points like returns, cancellations etc.

- Creating MIS reports, weekly/monthly dashboard on vendor and category performance.

- Coordinating with cross-functional teams for smooth execution of all online backend operations 

- Inventory, Sourcing, CMT, Shipping, Finance, listing, sales etc. and suggest and simplify processes for smooth functioning of operations

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