Assistant Category Manager - Footwear Luxury

Tata CLiQ Fashion; Mumbai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata CLiQ Fashion is seeking an Assistant Category Manager for Footwear (Luxury) based in Mumbai. You will co-own growth, P&L and customer experience for the category, working closely with Category Managers and Heads across marketing, merchandising, operations, analytics and product.

The role requires 2+ years in category management, an MBA or Fashion Retail Management degree, and familiarity with apparel. You will build strategies, analyze data, and drive brand partnerships to delight customers.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant category management experience.
• MBA Or Fashion Retail Management.
• Experience in the apparel category is preferred.
• NIFT / Fashion School (MFM preferred).

Responsibilities

• Assist in building and executing category and brand strategy, including 1-year/3-year growth plans and cross-functional execution.
• Foster brand relationships and plan marketing campaigns with brand support.
• Understand ecommerce funnel and suggest timely interventions to improve traffic, conversions and order value.
• Gather actionable customer insights from feedback, including NPS, returns and size-chart data.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Collaboration

Education

MBA or Fashion Retail Management

NIFT / Fashion School (MFM preferred)

Tools

MS PowerPoint

MS Excel (SQL preferred)

Job description

Assistant Category Manager - Footwear Luxury Empire Plaza 2, Vikhroli ( West ), Mumbai, Maharashtra, India 2 - 5 Years On Roll

Job Description

“ Assistant Category Manager for Footwear (Luxury) ” at TATA CLiQ will work very closely with Category Managers and Heads and co‑own the responsibility with the growth, P&L and customer experience of the category they have been assigned to. Key roles and responsibilities include:

• · Assist in building & executing the Category and Brand Strategy: Develop 1-Year/3-Year growth, efficiency, profitability & customer experience strategy along with weekly/monthly execution plans. This would necessitate working closely with internal cross-functional stakeholders across Marketing, Site merchandising, Operations, Analytics and Product teams as well as building & maintaining excellent relationships with the relevant brands/sellers.
  
• Fostering Brand relationships through ensuring business plans, performance reviews, creating marketing plans with marketing teams, customer journey enhancement with brand support like offer planning.
• Understanding of ecommerce funnel in terms of traffic, cart additions, conversions etc. so that timely interventions could be suggested.
• Demand generation: Work with marketing teams (TATA CLiQ and brand) to come up with innovative promotions as well as to get support for marketing campaigns from brands.
• Keeping up to date with the latest trends of the category, sub categories and top brands as per in-market trends, global trends, social events and seasonality. Candidate should have a good sense of picking out trends and well versed with fashion communication to demonstrate the trend reports to the internal stakeholders.
• Listening to the voice of customer: Gather actionable insights from various sources where customers share feedback (quantitative and qualitative), e.g.: NPS surveys, customer service calls, return reasons, size chart recommendations with the eventual objective of delighting customers during each step of the order journey.

Skillsets

• Strong bias for action alongside strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Trend spotting and Fashion communication.
• Ownership to drive necessary initiatives end-to-end and ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously.
• Advanced proficiency with MS PowerPoint, MS Excel (SQL preferred)
• Strong analytical skills with proven ability to interpret data and link category management data to retailer/business scenarios
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant category management experience
• MBA Or Fashion Retail Management
• Experience in the apparel category is preferred
• NIFT / Fashion School (MFM preferred)

Job Snapshot

Updated Date

29-10-2026

Job ID

Job-554

Department

Commercial