AddressThe Senior ManagerGeneral Merchandising will manage Non-Food Category Management across Home, Electronics, Appliances, Apparel, Mobile, IT accessories & ensure category penetration, growth & buyer experience
- Growth: Own a Category P&L, Selection, Assortment to drive exponential revenue growth and margins
- Selection: Responsible for Sourcing/ Buying, merchandising, assortment planning to ensure that DealShare has leadership position in identified segments. You should have an eye for identifying products, offers and negotiating the best rates
- Category Operations: Oversee merchandising operations, Inbound planning, Catalogue monitoring and margin, Stakeholder Management: Drive growth through Marketing, Operations and CS
- Tracking inventory movement and systematically introducing promotions, sales, price changes, etc.
- Interpreting sales reports and providing guidance on how to improve figures and customer engagement. - Identifying trends and monitoring supply and demand.
Skills & Competency: - Deep domain expertise in the identified category and geographies, are essential for this role
- The role is required to work on deliver on daily numbers, short-term goals and long-term milestones set by business and efficacy. Meeting these milestones would be critical to create success.
- The role needs the individual to be able to solve for a given business problem in sometimes an ambiguous state and with multiple data streams impacting decision making - Strong data driven problem-solving skills, eye for extreme details and process led.
- The role requires the incumbent to work closely and coordinate with the Internal and external teams to create success. She/he should be able to seamlessly navigate these relationship dynamics in a high growth, young, agile business environment.
- Startup Cultural Fit - willingness to learn, to innovate, to take initiative, to think out of the box, hustle, ability to execute
- Ability to lead a team - Strong English Communication verbal and written skills Candidate Profile: The ideal candidate will have significant experience in Retail (Modern Trade / B2B / eComm) or FMCG businesses with focus on deep domain expertise in Buying/Sourcing.
Required: - 6 to 8 years of relevant experience in Sourcing Good to Have: - MBA from a reputed college is necessary
About Dealshare: A fast-growing e-commerce startup, DealShare is a hyperlocal online buying platform for multi-category consumer products focused on the new 'WhatsApp first' India. Our mission is to target the new 500Mn users from non-metro cities and rural market spaces who haven't shopped enough online and are uncomfortable on other platforms. These users are primarily on mobile & social media.
DealShare makes it extremely easy for these users to buy in a couple of clicks, supported by vernacular browsing. Further, it allows the users to share deals with their friends and avail discounts if their friends purchase the products via the share link. It is a new retail model in which customers get products at cheaper than wholesale rates. The idea is around demand aggregation (C2B) of mass-market products using social virality, thereby significantly reducing operational costs. Our product catalogue includes fruits & vegetables, grocery items, beauty & wellness, baby care, pet care, fashion accessories, electronics, home dcor etc.
We've made quite the impression by being one of India's quickest entrants to the Unicorn club. Setting king- sized goals, we are all set to expand to 200 cities across 20 states, welcoming 50 million new customers! We're also aiming at achieving a $3 Bn annual revenue run rate in 12 months. Currently valued at $1.63 Bn, we are gearing up to explore International markets. Come, build for Bharat, and challenge yourself in the process. Learn new skills, hone existing ones and grow with the company.
