Category Manager - Consumer Products

Category Manager Consumer Products

Department: Category Management

Location: Bangalore

Employment Type: Full Time | On Site

Reports To: Founder / Leadership Team

Experience: 4+ Years

About the Company:

We are a fast growing, design led consumer brand building thoughtfully crafted products for modern families. With a strong omnichannel presence across D2C, marketplaces and retail, we are on an ambitious growth journey and are looking for entrepreneurial individuals who enjoy building categories from the ground up.

The Role:

We are looking for a Category Manager to own one of our core product categories end to end. This role carries complete responsibility for category strategy, product development, commercial performance and cross functional execution. The ideal candidate combines strong commercial acumen with exceptional product instinct and enjoys working in a fast paced, founder led environment.

Key Responsibilities:

- Own the category P&L, including revenue, margins and profitability.

- Define the category roadmap, product portfolio, pricing architecture and customer segmentation.

- Build annual and seasonal category plans aligned to business priorities.

- Own the product strategy from customer insight through concept, development, sampling and commercial launch.

- Work closely with design, sourcing and manufacturing teams to deliver market leading products.

- Identify, evaluate and negotiate with manufacturing partners.

- Drive quality standards, cost optimization and vendor performance.

- Build assortment architecture across price tiers.

- Optimize pricing and SKU productivity across D2C, marketplaces and retail channels.

- Lead launch planning for new products in partnership with Brand, Growth and Marketing teams.

- Partner with Supply Chain and Operations on inventory planning and demand forecasting.

- Translate customer feedback and market insights into future product improvements.

Ideal Candidate:

- 4+ years of experience in Category Management, Buying, Product Management or Merchandising within consumer goods, D2C, retail or ecommerce.

- Demonstrated ownership of category performance, commercial metrics and preferably a category P&L.

- Strong product intuition combined with analytical and commercial thinking.

- Experience working closely with vendors, sourcing teams and cross functional stakeholders.

- Excellent communication, stakeholder management and execution capabilities.

- Comfortable working in a fast paced, founder led, high ownership environment.

What We're Looking For:

- Strong commercial mindset with an ownership mentality.

- High attention to detail and customer obsession.

- Ability to balance product quality, customer experience and profitability.

- Bias for action with the ability to build and scale categories from scratch.

Why Join Us:

- Direct exposure to the founding team and key business decisions.

- End to end ownership of a high impact consumer category.

- Opportunity to shape products used by thousands of consumers across India.

- A high growth environment with significant learning and long term leadership opportunities.