Category Manager

Category Manager - Beauty and Personal Care

In this role, you will be facilitating the function of Business Development and aiding in specific strides of sustenance, growth and expansion.

You will be required to identify potential high-end brands or premium service providers to partner with Smitten and build a pipeline of opportunities based on existing/new contacts.

You will also be responsible for structuring the right proposals including commercials, business targets, requirements incentive structure, legal and operational implications for every partnership deal.

You will also lead the implementation of various initiatives cross-functionally (marketing, category management, engineering) to identify roadblocks and work on strategic client development efforts.

Responsibilities:

- Be the key point of contact for a selected set of brands, plan their roadmap on Smytten to achieve specific targets execute the same

- Manage complete promotion planning and execution

- Work closely with cross-functional teams within Smytten to grow partnerships

- Track Key Performance Indicators agreed with the brand and study the impact of the same on the sales

- Represent the company at industry events, which will include any kind of activation, consumer engagement, and partner interaction, speaker sessions, etc.

- Research new brands/categories that can be onboarded.

Requirements:

- Should have strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

- Should be a self-starter, with out-of-the-box and strategic thinking abilities.

- Excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills.

- Good interpersonal skills and a good team player. Negotiating skills.

- Proficiency in MS Excel.

- 1-2 years experience in e-commerce/sales/marketing/business development in the luxury, hospitality or FMCG industry Read more