Manager - Category Merchandising

Role Overview:

Support in managing a world class quality product portfolio, drive topline and 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 and retail feedback.

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

Product Portfolio:

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

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

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

- Identification of product gaps and need for refreshers to grow sales using analytics, retail feedback and 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 and incentives for retail team.

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

- Monitor the planogram effectiveness for Sales and Buyers.

Key Deliverables:

- Support Category Manager in achieving the topline and 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.

Candidate Profile:

- MBA or graduated from reputed design institutes with 3 - 6 years of work experience.

- 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.