Category Manager

Ninjacart; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ninjacart, Chennai-based leading agri-tech company, seeks an Associate Manager - Category to own margins across fresh subcategories and partner with procurement to build a dependable vendor base.

You will define product specifications, manage seasonality shifts, and lead value realization from unsold inventory while keeping the team updated on quality changes and market arrivals, focusing on delivering for farmers, traders, and retailers.

Qualifications

• Tier 3 Bachelor's/MBA with 3–5 years of relevant work experience.
• Strong understanding of F&V, Grocery, B2B/B2C, or Ecommerce categories.
• Proficiency in Excel, data-driven decision making.
• Customer-centric mindset and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Own margins for select/ all fresh subcategories (fruits and vegetables) for a city.
• Own the recovery of unsold inventory (Grade A/ dump) - ensure appropriate value realisation.
• Work closely with the procurement team to build a reliable vendor base in certain categories.
• Provide inputs on quality and product specifications - take the lead in defining product specifications and make changes based on seasonality or change of source.
• Keep self the Ninjacart team updated on quality spec changes and market arrivals.

Skills

Excel

Data analysis

Problem solving

Customer focus

Vendor management

B2B sales

Category management

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Associate Manager - Category Ninjacart - Pioneer. Challenge Yourself. Create Better Lives. Ninjacart is India's largest agri tech company that's revolutionising the agri ecosystem. By harnessing technology, innovation, and ideas, we are building commerce, finance, and fulfilment solutions that help build better lives for agri citizens. Our role in the agri ecosystem is not to replace, but to uplift its farmers, traders, and retailers, and ultimately, the end consumer. By leveraging our strengths and resources, we innovate for new product categories and customer segments and also solve complex supply chain problems in the soil to sales journey. So far, we have built products that cater to each segment and their unique needs - Ninjacart for retailers, Ninja Mandi for traders, Ninja Global for importers and exporters, Ninja Kirana for retailers, and Ninja Kisaan for farmers. We are committed to our ultimate mission to build the most trusted, efficient and inclusive AgriTrade Network. Since Ninjacart’s inception in 2015, we have garnered support from visionaries and leaders across the globe who have put their faith in our vision. Our investors include Accel US, Syngenta Ventures, Neoplux, HR Capital, Trifecta Capital, Jo Hirao, Founder of ZIGExN, Accel India, Nandan Nilekani, Mistletoe, Qualcomm Ventures, Tiger Global, Flipkart, and Walmart. To know more, please visit: www.ninjacart.com Read More: #BetterLives For Every Agri Citizen https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7120720715909115905/ How Ninjacart has evolved in the last 8 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Kts-O7tv4 Ninjacart Blog : https://www.ninjacart.com/blog/ Nandan Nilekani on Ninjacart https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ninja-cart_tech-pioneersatwork-ninjacart-activity-7027281166 617505792-pciW Ninjacart Culture CODE: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ninja-cart_ninja-code-our-values-activity-70768214025483 8 40-KuL1.

Location: Chennai

Responsibilities

• Own up margins for select/ all fresh subcategories (fruits and vegetables) for a city.
• Own up the recovery of unsold inventory (Grade A/ dump) - ensure appropriate value realisation.
• Work closely with the procurement team to build a reliable vendor base in certain categories.
• Provide inputs on quality and product specifications - take the lead in defining product specifications and make changes based on seasonality or change of source.
• Keep self the Ninjacart team updated on quality spec changes and market arrivals.

A Ninja is resilient, smart, and ambitious.

What you will need to have to join the Ninja Clan

• Tier 3 Bachelors/MBA with 3-5 years of relevant work experience as a Category Manager/Pricing Manager/Customer Campaign Manager in F&V/Grocery/B2B/B2C/Ecommerce.
• Sound understanding of the customer segment, their behavior, products in the category, Category Pricing, B2B Sales, Vendor Management
• Sound understanding of Excel, customer obsession, problem solving skills and good with data.
• Drive and proactiveness to dive into numbers to identify, analyze and solve business problems

Additional Information At Ninjacart, we are creating a workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees, communities and the business.

Experience Level Mid Level