Deputy Director - Category Management

Deputy Director - Category Management

Roles and Responsibilities

Roles:

• Responsible to manage the buying portfolio for Womens Apparel 
• A comprehensive role which involves all aspects of business including Analytics, financial planning, range planning and managing direct and functional teams
• Responsible for Business Growth & Profitability (topline, bottomline) for the portfolio including Inventory Planning, Assortment and directly managing the Buying function while working functionally with Sourcing, Design, Planning, Business Finance & Marketing teams.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to optimize sales for the portfolio including

• Revenue
• Margins
• Growth of categories

• Range Planning (Assortment)

• Product-Brand mapping
• Product range planning for the category Planning / Identifying best sellers and planning for the replenishments
• Effectively planning and forecasting to maximize profitability
• Trend forecasts and implement sale plans
• Financial analysis - Sales, Margin, Discount and Inventory related analysis

• Option planning

• OTB working along with the central planning team

• Inventory Management

• Planning for the inventory flow for entire category

• Team and stakeholder Management - Co-ordinating with all functional teams to ensure and deliver Business Growth & margins
• Enabling & building an optimal supply chain

Qualifications & Experience

• 10+ years of experience with Apparel Buying Background
• Experience as a mix of online & offline would be a plus
• Product Category experience  for Women's wear categories
• Excellent with numbers and in collecting, analysing and interpreting data.
• Strong communication skills to be able to communicate effectively with Senior stakeholders, peers & juniors
• Strong team building & team management skills

Regards,

Chaitra K N

Chaitra.c@myntra.com