Category Manager, Personal Computing and IOT

Amazon Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Bengaluru is seeking a Category Manager for Personal Computing and IoT to lead cross-functional work in selection, demand generation, and catalogue quality.

The role focuses on building brand relationships, forecasting, and driving online sales while leveraging data-driven decisions. The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, experience in planning product cycles, and a track record of ownership and fast-paced execution.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of with Excel experience.
• 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience.
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership.
• Bachelor's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing.

Responsibilities

• Building selection: Identify selection gaps and track brand’s offline catalogue to ensure presence on Amazon.
• Demand generation: create a marketing calendar with the category management team based on vendor objectives.
• Business Advice: Support participation of brand in Amazon programs.
• Availability: Ensure continuous availability of products.
• Catalogue Quality on Amazon: Ensure input from brand is updated on Amazon detail pages with images and descriptions.

Skills

Excel

Analytical skills

Communication

Negotiations

Program management

Education

Bachelor's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing

Job description

Category Manager, Personal Computing and IOT

About the Role:

As a Category Manager, you will focus on delivering 5 core focus areas for the brand: Selection, demand generation, catalogue quality, business advice and availability.

The person who joins the leadership team in this position must share our passion and commitment for serving our customers. This ideal candidate should have experience in forging and building brand relationships. Some understanding of planning product cycles and selling online is preferred. The right candidate will be flexible, action and results oriented, self-starting and have strong analytical skills. He or she must have a proven track record in taking ownership, driving results and moving with speed to implement ideas in a fast-paced environment. He should be entrepreneurial with the confidence to make independent, data-driven decisions. The candidate must demonstrate the ability to succeed at: planning and forecasting, and driving an online business. The candidate must be an effective communicator in working with some of Amazon’s most important partners and vendors, as well as with internal colleagues and groups.

Key job responsibilities

• Building selection: Identify selection gaps. Track brand’s offline catalogue to ensure all relevant selection is present on Amazon.
• Demand generation: Responsible for demand generation. This includes working with other members on the category management team to create a marketing calendar based on vendor's objectives
• Business Advice: Support participation of brand in Amazon programs
• Availability: Ensuring continuous availability of products
• Catalogue Quality on Amazon: Ensuring the best input from brand is updated for customer interface on Amazon Detail Pages through perfect Images, Product descriptions, etc.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of with Excel experience
• 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership
• Bachelor's degree in management, business administration, economics, engineering, marketing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements
• Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development

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