Assistant Manager - Category

Tumbledry Solutions; Dadri; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

duckduckbaby is seeking a Category Strategy & Growth professional to shape growth across maternity and baby care categories. You will drive category strategy, analyze market trends, and lead cross-channel initiatives spanning online and physical stores.

The role focuses on assortment management, inventory coordination, and performance optimization, requiring strong analytical skills and 1+ year in analytics or e-commerce roles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering from a Tier 1 institute (IITs, NITs, or equivalent preferred).
• Academic grades must be 80% or above throughout.
• Minimum 1 year of experience in analytics, consulting, product, e-commerce, or category/marketing roles.
• Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving ability.
• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of e-commerce business dynamics (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute category growth strategies aligned with overall business objectives.
• Analyse market trends, consumer behaviour, and competitor activities to identify growth opportunities.
• Drive revenue, margin, and market share growth for assigned categories.
• Monitor category KPIs including Sales, GMV, Revenue, Margin, Conversion Rate, AOV, Traffic, and Inventory Turnover.
• Take corrective actions to improve underperforming products or categories.
• Manage product assortment, launches, discontinuations, and category expansion.
• Identify gaps in the assortment and recommend new products or brands.
• Ensure product listings are optimized with accurate content, images, and specifications.
• Work closely with supply chain and operations teams to maintain healthy inventory levels.
• Forecast demand and plan stock requirements to minimize stock-outs and excess inventory.
• Monitor inventory aging and implement liquidation strategies where necessary.
• Own performance and execution of offline retail stores along with online channels.
• Ensure strong alignment between store assortment and overall category strategy.
• Work closely with retail operations teams to optimize store productivity and profitability.

Job description

About Company

duckduckbaby, an omnichannel retail platform operating seamlessly across app, web, and physical retail stores, delivering high-quality maternity and baby care essentials through a unified and elevated shopping experience.

Role & responsibilities

Category Strategy & Growth

• Develop and execute category growth strategies aligned with overall business objectives.
• Analyse market trends, consumer behaviour, and competitor activities to identify growth opportunities.
• Drive revenue, margin, and market share growth for assigned categories.

Sales & Performance Management

• Monitor category KPIs including Sales, GMV, Revenue, Margin, Conversion Rate, AOV, Traffic, and Inventory Turnover.
• Take corrective actions to improve underperforming products or categories.

Assortment & Product Management

• Manage product assortment, launches, discontinuations, and category expansion.
• Identify gaps in the assortment and recommend new products or brands.
• Ensure product listings are optimized with accurate content, images, and specifications.

Inventory & Supply Chain Coordination

• Work closely with supply chain and operations teams to maintain healthy inventory levels.
• Forecast demand and plan stock requirements to minimize stock-outs and excess inventory.
• Monitor inventory aging and implement liquidation strategies where necessary.

Cross-Channel Retail & Store Management

• Own performance and execution of offline retail stores along with online channels.
• Ensure strong alignment between store assortment and overall category strategy.
• Work closely with retail operations teams to optimize store productivity and profitability.

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors degree in engineering from a Tier 1 institute (IITs, NITs, or equivalent preferred).
• Academic grades must be 80% or above throughout
• Minimum 1 year of experience in analytics, consulting, product, e-commerce, or category/marketing roles.
• Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving ability.
• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of e-commerce business dynamics (preferred).