DealShare - Category Manager/Senior Category Manager - eCommerce Jobs in Ahmedabad,India - 25114670

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About Dealshare

Dealshare is a fast growing social e-commerce startup, an online buying platform for multi-category consumer products, focused on the new WhatsApp first India Our mission is to target the new 500 Mn users in non-metro and rural markets who are active on mobile & social media yet dont shop online regularly as they are not comfortable with existing ecommerce platforms DealShare makes it extremely easy for these users to buy in a couple of clicks Further, it allows the users to buy and share deals with their friends

We drive demand aggregation (C2B) of mass market products using social virality, thereby significantly reducing operational costs, thus our customer benefits from promoting our offers to his social circle

DealShare is funded by Matrix, Falcon Capital, Omidyar and DST Global

We are hiring for Category Management - Commodity Sourcing (Staples,Oil and Ghee) Leadership roles at Bangalore, Jaipur, Mumbai and Ahmadabad to own and grow the category business growth across identified categories and geographies

Key Job Responsibilities

Growth Own Category P&L, Selection, Assortment to drive exponential revenue growth and margins

- Selection Responsible for Sourcing/ Buying (Staples, Oil & Ghee), merchandising, assortment planning to ensure that DealShare has leadership position in identified segments You should have an eye for identifying changing consumer trends and consequent business opportunity

- Marketing promotions Collaborate with the marketing and business teams to drive the marketing plans for the category including category and product promotion plans

- Strategy Own, define and drive growth strategy across category, products, consumer segments, geographies

Category Operations Manage merchandising operations, Inbound planning, Catalogue monitoring and margin

Insights New User, New Channels, New Products, Automation to beyond metro, beyond google, next 500 million users

Analytics Market Research, Consumer Insights, Competitive landscape, Business Intelligence

Stakeholder Management Drive growth through Marketing, Operations and CS

Special Projects Lead business critical special projects involving stakeholders across functions like marketing, operations, supply chain etc

Candidate Profile

- An Ideal candidate would be curious, creative, obsessive for consumer, eager to unlearn and learn with bias for results With demonstrated record of mentoring teams in fast growing and dynamic organizations, and should be willing to go that extra mile to work beyond the KPIs

- Deep domain expertise in the identified category (FMCG/Commodities/ Fashion / NonFood /Long Tail) and geographies, are essential for this role

- The ideal candidate will be a Graduate from Tier 1 Institution in the domain with 2 - 8 years of post-qualification work experience in Offline Retail/eComm businesses with focus on deep domain expertise in Buying/Sourcing

Preferences

- Startup Cultural Fit - willingness to learn, to innovate, to take initiative, to think out of the box, hustle, ability to execute

- Strong data driven problem solving skills, eye for extreme details and process led

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