Manager - Buying - bengaluru

Role : Manager- Sell Side (Accessories)

A Sell side role entails category management based on deep customer centricity, strong analytics, sharp planning and story-telling coupled with product/tech understanding for an enhanced customer experience. 

Roles & Responsibilities

Customer understanding: 

• Be the voice of the customer internally 
• Understand needs - even those that the customers themselves may not realize 
• Stay on top of changing trends and strategic priorities through in-depth data analysis to predict customer behavior. 

Pricing: 

• Develop the right pricing policy - identify opportunities for giving customers value through intelligent and limited discounting. 
• Use discounting to drive portfolio mix and achieve strategic goals 

Merchandising: 

• Develop and execute plans to showcase the right products 
• Identify cross-selling and upselling opportunities 
• Own the customer experience in the category - make navigation, discovery easier. 
• Identify the parameters customers use to make decisions and ensure catalog richness 

Promotions: 

• Create promotions to drive revenue, margins, etc. 
• Own both creation and execution of promotions calendar including special occasions (Diwali, Valentine’s Day, etc.)

Operations: 

• Work with internal & external team to track key project milestones, ensure processes are followed for review & reporting of the same 
• Work with buying and sourcing teams to plan inventory inwarding as per requirement, ensure inventory sufficiency & reduce non-selling inventory 
• Develop plans for growth of sellers on Platform. 

Qualification: 

• 3 - 6 Years of experience 
• Educational background - MBA (Tier 1, Tier 2 B School) 
• Desire and ability to think like the customer 
• Ability to translate strategies into execution plans and take them to completion 
• Highly analytical 
• Willing to take calculated risks to grow the category 
• Excellent verbal and written communication with interpersonal skills 
• Strong understanding of technology and business Ability to connect with people across teams & levels
•  Strong bias for Action