Assistant Manager - Product, Van Heusen

Aditya Birla Insulators; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Aditya Birla Insulators in Bengaluru seeks a dynamic product and category specialist to drive growth across channels. You will manage season merchandise ranges, coordinate from design to order release, and push innovations to stay ahead of competition.

The role emphasizes cost-effective product re-engineering, category performance analytics, and lifecycle management, including selling through charts, market benchmarking, and supplier visits to ensure quality and timely delivery.

Responsibilities

• KRA: Tradeshow Management - Creation of season merchandise range and capsule collections for various channels as per requirements identified. From Design to Order release complete stakeholder management.
• KRA2: Product re-engineering - Pure product cost improvement of L2L through product re-engineering measures, clearly demonstrating the impact -Infusing freshness into the line through product innovation
• KRA3: Category performance - Season range primary performance, category volume growth, category performance in wholesale trade; Season range secondary performance, Core line secondary performance
• KRA4: Product Lifecycle Management - Product grids, TS Analysis, Sell Through charts, Market Benchmarking
• KRA5: Quality Improvement - Actions to be taken on PPMH scores for the category, Analysis of cause of defects and quality issues
• KRA6: Partner visits - Vendor, Market and Factory visits

Job description

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Job Purpose

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Key Challenges

• Ensure Category Growth and Maintaining PC:MRP/Category Margins of the category within the budget.
• Stay always ahead than Competition Brands in terms of Product Innovation/Fashionability.

Key Result Areas (KRA) / Accountabilities

• KRA1 Tradeshow Management -Creation of season merchandise range and capsule collections for various channels as per requirements identified. From Design to Order release complete stake holder management.
• KRA2 Product Re-engineering -Pure Product cost improvement of L2L through product re-engineering measures, clearly demonstrating the impact
  -Infusing freshness into the line through product innovation
• KRA3 Category performance -Season range primary performance
  - category volume growth
  -category performance in wholesale trade
  -Season range secondary performance
  -Core line secondary performance
• KRA4 Product Lifecycle Management - Product grids
  - TS Analysis
  - Sell Through charts
  - Market Benchmarking
• KRA5 Quality Improvement - Actions to be taken on PPMH scores for the category
  - Analysis of cause of defects and quality issues
• KRA6 Partner visits - Vendor, Market and Factory visits