Senior Category Manager - Brand & Category Management

Amazon India Limited; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon India Limited is seeking a Senior Category Manager to lead selection, demand generation, catalogue quality, business advice and availability for key brands. You will partner with internal teams and external vendors, owning planning cycles, data-driven decisions and rapid execution in a fast-paced environment.

You will build cross-functional relationships, forecast demand, optimize catalogue content, and drive measurable growth across categories.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Excel experience
• 5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
• Master's degree, or 5+ years of professional or military experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Access or SQL
• Experience using data to influence business decisions
• Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
• Experience with business analysis and P&L management

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.

Skills

Excel

Data-driven decisions

Cross-functional collaboration

SQL

Education

Master's degree or 5+ years of professional or military experience

Tools

Microsoft Access

SQL

Job description

Senior Category Manager, Amazon

As a Senior 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.

About the team

Here is an opportunity to work in a very dynamic category, evolving fast with changing customer preferences and behavior. Do you have 5+ years of experience in Category Management / Project or Program management?

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of with Excel experience
• 5+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
• Master's degree, or 5+ years of professional or military experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Access or SQL
• Experience using data to influence business decisions
• Experience driving internal cross-team collaboration
• Experience with business analysis and P&L management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience driving direction and alignment with cross-functional teams

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Experience Level Senior Level