Category Manager - Buy Side (Regional Brands)

TalentXO


Date: 3 days ago
City: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Contract type: Full time
Role & Responsibilities

  • Vendor Management & Negotiation: Manage vendor relationships, negotiate local rates to meet cost-per-unit targets, and ensure timely delivery of products.
  • Inventory Monitoring: Track stock levels, share daily reports on low inventory, and ensure minimum order quantities (MOQ) are met.
  • Purchase Order Coordination: Map/unmap products, raise POs with desired vendors, and monitor negative margins at product level.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Meet regularly with the Business Operations and Growth teams to align on stock availability, sales plans, and product launches.
  • Payment & Delivery Follow-up: Coordinate with Finance on vendor payments to avoid delays, and ensure smooth vehicle offloading at Distribution Centers (DC).
  • Vendor Sourcing: Identify and onboard alternate vendors to maintain product availability and address supply gaps.
  • Stock Management: Monitor put-away status of inventory, manage slow-moving stock, and support sales strategies for excess inventory.
  • Reporting & Analysis: Provide regular performance updates, including benchmarking new products, sales plans, and launch strategies.

Ideal Candidate

  • First Principles Problem solver
  • Proven experience (3+ years) in category management, vendor management, or procurement, preferably in a retail, e-commerce environment, or fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry.
  • Strong analytical skills with advanced proficiency in Excel
  • Strong understanding of supply chain processes and inventory management best practices.
  • Ability to manage relationships with both local vendors.
  • Strong negotiation skills and a keen eye for cost optimization.
  • Ability to work independently with limited support in a fast-paced, high growth environment
  • Hunger to work, deliver, and grow in a rapidly growing organization
  • Experimentative mindset: Ideate, try, measure, learn, document and help improve our ways of working
  • Good collaboration skills – great at communication and negotiation - Ability to influence a variety stakeholders without relying on positional authority
  • Willingness to getting your hands dirty : Learn from customers, manufacturers and on ground teams about their business and challenges

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