Experience: 2-3 Years
Location: Karachi, Pakistan
Seeking a results-driven Category Manager to lead Fashion & Lifestyle category strategy. Responsibilities include building innovation networks with brands/resellers, ensuring business agenda success through collaboration with project management and marketing, driving growth, enhancing the consumer experience, and optimizing efficiency. Collaborate on the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for e-commerce sales in alignment with company goals. If you're a dynamic leader with a track record of results, apply now.
Description
Key Responsibilities
- Identify new business opportunities and evaluate potential partnerships
- Create the selection based on consumer preference, and customer profitability and partner with the project management and marketing to create new items or remove those no longer relevant
- Own the relationship end-to-end with brands and customers
- Partner internally with key parties such as supply chain and marketing management to contribute to the definition of priorities and operational goals according to the brands' needs
- Define joint business plans and assist in delivering impact for the brands you support directly
- Regularly audit metrics to continually drive the quality of the vendor experience and deliver targets
- Business Advice and Reporting: Providing business advice based on deep financial analysis and reporting, to identify areas of opportunities to grow their business
- Selection: Helping grow the selection of products by managing the launch of new brands/products and improving product discoverability.
- Availability: Support driving process improvement and operational excellence within our vendor community by reducing costs, defects, and lead times, while increasing innovation.
- Marketing & Branding: Create strategic quarterly marketing plans with marketing managers, manage onsite placement and campaigns.
- Content: Support the creation of 100% quality website content (product descriptions, videos).
- Customer Satisfaction: Drive customer satisfaction by monitoring customer returns and evaluating how to reduce customer returns.
Qualifications:
- A bachelor's degree in any discipline is preferred; a business or technical background is considered an advantage;
- Work experience or background in data-driven business operations processes is considered an advantage.
- Preferable experience in e-commerce Fashion & Lifestyle category with track records
- Strong organizational and project management skills, including prioritizing, scheduling, and time management.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, ability to build relationships, and influence others without authority.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to communicate effectively at all levels of an organization
- Advanced proficiency in Excel
Please note this is urgent hiring, interested candidates may submit their updated resume to hr@naheed.pk with the subject line “Category Specialist - Fashion & Lifestyle” as soon as possible.