About Company:
In a world where digital-first (D2C) brands are thriving, our client is rewriting the rules of retail. Their mission is clear - democratize prime retail to empower digital-first brands with plug and play tools to seamlessly transition into the physical world. In the heart of innovation, brand emerges as a revolutionary retail space, an avant-garde fusion of shared economy, digital prowess, and tangible experiences
About the Role:
We are currently seeking a highly skilled and experienced Category Manager to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in category management roles within the e-commerce sector, with a focus on categories such as fashion, personal care, beauty, and health and wellness.
What You’ll Be Doing:
• Plan and implement effective marketing campaigns to promote category growth. Monitor and analyze campaign performance, making data-driven adjustments as needed.
• Curate and manage the product assortment within assigned categories. Work closely with vendors and internal teams to ensure a diverse and appealing product mix.
• Take ownership of the category's (P&L) statement. Develop and execute strategies to maximize revenue and profitability. Monitor and manage pricing, promotions, and discounts within the
category.
• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with both new and existing brands within the assigned categories. Negotiate terms, agreements, and promotional opportunities with brand partners.
• Utilize data analysis tools to gather insights into category performance. Make informed decisions based on data, identifying trends and opportunities & provide regular reports.
• Collaborate with various teams, including business, marketing, customer support, and data teams and ensure effective communication and alignment on category objectives and initiatives.
Requirements:
1. Bachelor's or Master’s degree in engineering, Business, Marketing, or a related field from a tier-1 institute.
2. 3-5 years of proven experience in e-commerce category management, preferably in fashion, personal care, beauty, or health and wellness.
3. Analytical mindset with proficiency in data analysis tools.
4. Strong understanding of retail trends, consumer behavior, and brand marketing.
5. Excellent negotiation and communication skills.
6. Experience in managing a team would be a plus.
7. Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
8. Experience in a VC-funded start-up is a plus.
If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for e-commerce and a proven track record in category management, we invite you to apply.
Subodh Popalwar
Software Engineer, Memorres
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Location: Bangalore
About The Role
• Own the P&L of the brand, right from pricing, discounts & marketing
activities
• Plan & deliver on growth, in alignment with the company’s strategies
• Conceptualize & execute plans across all marketing channels (Digital,
Outdoor, Social, 3rd party platforms, BTL etc).
• Identify & program manage new product development opportunities that
helps the brand stay relevant with the latest trends & consumer needs,
through market and consumer research.
• Identify brand's differentiation, positioning in the market, build a coherent
consumer language across all touch-points.
• Build newer channels of communication for the brand and help the brand
build channels previously unexplored.
• Work to drive discovery, traffic & conversion. Understand business
trajectory, capture data, analyze campaigns and documents. Create detailed
specifications for all e-commerce platforms and analyze site traffic
management.
• Work closely with operations & supply chain teams to ensure stock
availability by providing growth projections in advance & avoiding out of
stocks
• Complete ownership of campaigns which are rolled out on a weekly, monthly
and yearly basis.
Qualifications and experience
Looking for candidates with an MBA from a Tier 1 & 2 B-School with 1-3 years of post-MBA experience.
Skills required
- 1-3 years of experience in Brand/ Category Management in a consumer facing company
- An understanding of trends and an ability to respond to customers wishes.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Responsible for managing & driving the online business on E-commerce marketplaces.
- Responsible for uploading new collections on a weekly basis and ensuring catalogue hygiene of the uploaded catalogue.
- Handling the marketing budgets & the paid advertising campaigns/sponsored ads on the marketplaces.
- Responsible for handling product listings, promotions, deals, discounts & day-to-day operational issues related to the marketplace.
- Sole POC for communication with the category team.
- Strategizing & implementing the plan of action for the month on month growth in the sales from the existing online marketplace.
- Ensuring that all new products are uploaded and listed on websites/channels
- Repricing the products
- FBA Set up a pricing minimum to maximum for FBA listings
- Creating product listings and set minimum and maximum pricing
- Generating out of stock report, bestselling products report, runout stock report brand by brand on daily basis.
- Sort out pricing error issues and re-activate the listings. Inactivate listing to make active listing if required.
- Deleting discarded SKUs from all channels if required
- Optimizing listings with accurate product information, images, pricing and placement to increase sales and maximize revenue
- Optimize existing listings of current products to ensure we are exploring sales opportunities
- Keep up to date with industry techniques for SEO and content marketing
- To analyze product pricing vs our competitors on an ongoing basis and make pricing adjustments
- Support customer care emails and calls and also support social media campaigns.
- Ability to communicate effectively and to operate as part of a team
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Job Responsibilities
-Create and execute the brand strategy for the company. This involves developing a clear understanding of the company's mission, target audience, and brand positioning.
-Responsible for managing the visual identity of the brand, developing and maintaining brand guidelines, overseeing the design of marketing materials, and ensuring consistency across all communications.
-Responsible for conducting market research to understand consumer behavior and trends, as well as to identify opportunities to enhance the brand's reputation.
- Working closely with internal teams, including marketing, advertising, and product development teams, to ensure that the brand strategy is aligned with the company's overall goals.
-Developing marketing campaigns that effectively communicate the brand's message to the target audience.
-Tracking and analyzing the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and brand strategy through monitoring consumer engagement, tracking brand awareness, and measuring the return on investment of marketing initiatives
-Building relationships with key stakeholders, such as media outlets and influencers, to enhance the brand's reputation and increase brand visibility.
Requirements
-Creative mindset to come up with innovative ideas for branding and marketing campaigns.
- Ability to think strategically and develop comprehensive branding strategies that align with the company's overall goals and values.
- Strong understanding of marketing principles and techniques to develop effective marketing campaigns and measure their success.
- Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate with various stakeholders, including cross-functional teams, vendors, and customers.
-Analytical skills to analyze market data, consumer behavior, and marketing trends to develop effective branding strategies.
-Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.
-Detail orientation to ensure that the brand messaging and visuals are consistent across all marketing channels.
- Adaptable to changing market trends and consumer behavior to adjust branding strategies as needed.
-Knowledge of Event and exhibition handling.
The candidate must have at least 2 years of experience in managing ATL activities for renowned brands with thorough knowledge of all performance metrics. And would be required to craft and execute all the branding campaigns for our Apps.
The ideal candidate should have a strong analytical/business mindset, highly-focussed, self-motivated, and have prior experience in end-to-end managing brand campaigns. The candidate should be highly effective in cross-functional teams - working in collaboration with the agency, design team, business managers, and other stakeholders. We’re looking for someone with a “can-do” attitude who wants to work in a startup environment and always finds a way to make things work.
What is Must - ATL campaigns/ Offline Campaigns experience(especially Television) & media buying/planning experience
Joining: IMMEDIATELY
Responsibilities will include:
- Define the brand’s marketing strategy, deliver against app brand objectives
- Drive the development and execution of integrated marketing campaigns at national/regional levels
- Develop, manage, and analyzes branding campaigns across marketing channels - offline and online
- Coordinate with agency and internal design team to execute the campaign
- Analyze campaigns and provide strategic recommendations
Attributes we value:
- Strong analytical foundation with meticulous attention to detail
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong intellectual curiosity
- Extremely organized and detail-oriented
- Proficiency in Excel
Requirements:
- Graduation/Post-Graduation from a tier-1 institute
- Demonstrative experience in executing brand campaigns
- Work-ex: 4 - 8 years
Gathers the materials necessary to understand the project and competition in the area such as literature or previous marketing campaigns; analyzes these materials to determine the most effective communications technique.
Based on assessment, drafts and proposes communications campaigns, which may include social and online media, print media, direct mail, and other multimedia.
Presents design ideas and recommendations to marketing manager, committee, or sales team.
Creates and coordinates multimedia packages.
Composes draft speeches for senior management and assists with finalizing speeches.
Schedules and develops filming scripts and production.
Evaluates success of campaigns when completed.
Attends trade shows and community fairs and staffs the company booth.
Performs other duties as assigned
We are looking for an enthusiastic and visionary Brand Manager to join our team! If you love planning and implementing brand strategies, and if you are passionate about delivering a coherent and total brand experience to consumers, you will also love this job!
Job responsibilities:
- Analyse consumer insights
- Plan effective marketing campaigns and brand positioning strategies
- Manage existing and new product categories.
- Contribute to monthly/annual plans
- Assess how new brand concepts and strategies perform (ROI, KPIs)
- Have a long term brand vision and mission
- Plan, design and implement strategies to expand the brand’s impression, exposure and market share.
- Foster internal partnerships to expedite the development of new products/ideas.
- Analyse current and upcoming market trends
- Hire, train, lead and mentor subordinates
Qualifications and skills:
- 4 years of experience as a Brand Manager or similar role
- Creative thinking, good understanding of the market trends
- Outstanding leadership, communication, and analytical skills
- Ability to generate new concepts/ideas
- impact on company’s success
- Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
- Team player
- Good time-management skills
We are looking for a skilled and solutions-oriented Brand Strategist with a strong analytical mind to craft compelling brand stories and strategies that deliver results. The Brand Strategist's responsibilities include conducting extensive research, analyzing findings, making recommendations, presenting to clients and briefing creatives. You should be a strategic thinker with a knack for uncovering consumer insights that inform strategy development.
The ideal candidate should be open-minded and passionate about creating holistic brand experiences. Ultimately, the outstanding Brand Strategist should have strong research skills, an analytical mindset and be an excellent storyteller.
Brand Strategist Responsibilities:
- Conducting extensive primary and secondary research.
- Staying up-to-date on consumer research and market trends.
- Analyzing research, data and trends.
- Creating competitive reviews and situational analyses.
- Identifying insights, challenges and opportunities.
- Developing brand architecture, positioning and strategy.
- Writing compelling brand stories.
- Meeting and presenting to clients.
- Briefing and collaborating with creative teams.
- Leading ideation and brainstorming sessions.
Brand Strategist Requirements:
- Degree in business, marketing, branding, communication or related field required.
- Previous experience as a brand strategist or similar role.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Experience leading client meetings.
- Analytical and problem-solving mindset.
- Creative and compelling storyteller.
- Strong research skills.
- Strategic thinker.
- Excellent presentation skills.
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