Category and Product Growth Head

4 days ago


Gurugram, India People Hire Consulting Full time

Role: Head of Product & Category Growth

Owner of entire beauty portfolio mix. Lead product development, market entry, market share growth, channel mix & NPS for each category. Responsible for P&L, new customer acquisition & retention strategy for all categories to meet market share & revenue growth KPIs.


Collaborate with internal stakeholders (brand, channel sales/growth, creative) and external agencies and stakeholders. Build an innovation & insight led approach to win.


Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of annual operating plan for the business. Work closely with channel, brand & creative to deliver on the same.
  • Lead the portfolio mix planning to meet brand growth goals & ambitions
  • Lead the P&L for every category, particularly optimizing gross margins & marketing costs
  • Lead the innovation funnel. End to end management of all NPD / product development in collaboration with R&D.
  • Develop all aspects of each category: Product, Identity, Architecture, Positioning, Price, Channel Mix.
  • Initiate and drive category, competition, consumer and customer/ shopper research to drive actionable insights.
  • Build the new trial & customer retention strategy of each category.
  • Work closely with brand & creative teams to build effective communication for each category.
  • Work closely with brand & channel teams to evolve product/price/positioning in order to optimize growth & marketing costs.
  • Work with brand team for key categories in which you make use of full marketing mix.
  • Work on product & category experience to drive excellent NPS.


Qualifications & Skills

  • Bachelors of Engineering / Science / Math / Economics / Medicine + MBA from a premier institute.
  • 8-14 yrs of growth/sales/business experience.
  • Experience in consumer facing B2C industries and minimum of 5years in consumer product led brands.
  • Fair mix of experience in both digital-first businesses as well as legacy brand businesses.
  • Very strong analytical skills - Data forward decision. Clear fundamentals on reading/ implementing research (qual and quant) insights on category development & shopper behavior.
  • Clear framework led thinking.
  • Strong pulse of female consumer behavior & knack to understand consumer psychology.
  • Strong solutioning ability with a creative bent of mind towards business problems.
  • Consumer/ customer first approach and demonstrated experience.
  • Independent decision making ability.
  • Ability to sustain & enhance the strong collaborative culture of the organization.
  • Strong bias towards action & hustle.
  • Excited about building a long term brand.


Reporting Team

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