Manager- Category Merchandising(Zoya)

Job Requirements

TITAN COMPANY LTD

Position

Asst Category Manager Zoya

Job Location

Bangalore

Reporting to

Scope of the role

Support in Managing world class quality product portfolio, drive topline & bottom line.

The profile involves work on Range Planning, Pricing, Promotions/Offers to deliver Sales growth and Profitability objectives using Analytics, Customer Research, Product Trends & retail feedback to deliver the objectives.

The role collaborates with Factory, Vendors, Retail, Marketing & production.

Drive Top line & Bottom line Growth & Target Achievement.

Job Profile

Product Portfolio

- Managing the universe of designs for sales growth & Gross contribution as per strategy defined by Category Manager

- Rationalization of the designs based on performance in terms of profitability or sales

- Track & Understand competition benchmarks & trends in the luxury jewelry segment in terms of the designs, pricing, range & policy

- Identification of product gaps & need for refreshers to grow sales using analytics, retail feedback & insights based on consumer research and early adoption of consumer trends.

- Product Life cycle management - Evaluate sales performance, margin profile, role of each design for the brand and in the portfolio to manage life cycle of the product.

Pricing

- Assist in the pricing of products in each category and price / weight band as per the profitability objective laid down by the category Manager.

Retail:

- Drive sell-thru activations, offers & incentives for retail team

- Review performance and maintain a library of store wise key data points and suggest action plans on Merchandising related improvements & alignments that would help objectives.

- Monitor the planogram effectiveness for Sales & Buyers

Key Deliverables

- Support Category Manager in achieving the topline & bottom line targets of the segments

- Ensure that the right product mix is available at all points of sale and at brand level

- Maintain a library of relevant data to facilitate decision making based on data points

The right person

- MBA or Graduated from reputed design institutes with minimum work experience of 5-8 years

- High degree of co-ordination abilities

- Assertiveness

- High order of communication skills

- High on learning capabilities

- Well versed with jewellery products, mfg techniques and certifications in gemology will be added advantage

Work Experience

The right person

- MBA or Graduated from reputed design institutes with minimum work experience of 1-3 years

- High degree of co-ordination abilities

- Assertiveness

- High order of communication skills

- High on learning capabilities

- Well versed with jewellery products, mfg techniques and certifications in gemology will be added advantage