Deputy Director - Category Management
Roles and Responsibilities
Roles:
- Responsible to manage the buying portfolio for Womens Apparel
- A comprehensive role which involves all aspects of business including Analytics, financial planning, range planning and managing direct and functional teams
- Responsible for Business Growth & Profitability (topline, bottomline) for the portfolio including Inventory Planning, Assortment and directly managing the Buying function while working functionally with Sourcing, Design, Planning, Business Finance & Marketing teams.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible to optimize sales for the portfolio including
- Revenue
- Margins
- Growth of categories
- Range Planning (Assortment)
- Product-Brand mapping
- Product range planning for the category Planning / Identifying best sellers and planning for the replenishments
- Effectively planning and forecasting to maximize profitability
- Trend forecasts and implement sale plans
- Financial analysis - Sales, Margin, Discount and Inventory related analysis
- OTB working along with the central planning team
- Planning for the inventory flow for entire category
- Team and stakeholder Management - Co-ordinating with all functional teams to ensure and deliver Business Growth & margins
- Enabling & building an optimal supply chain
Qualifications & Experience
- 10+ years of experience with Apparel Buying Background
- Experience as a mix of online & offline would be a plus
- Product Category experience for Women's wear categories
- Excellent with numbers and in collecting, analysing and interpreting data.
- Strong communication skills to be able to communicate effectively with Senior stakeholders, peers & juniors
- Strong team building & team management skills
Regards,
Chaitra K N
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