Category Product Development Manager

2 days ago


Kottayam, Kerala, India beBeeProduct Full time ₹ 21,60,000 - ₹ 2,59,20,000
Job Description

The role holder will oversee the sourcing and management of vendors, including onboarding new suppliers, scheduling, buying/ordering, ensuring timely payments, debits to vendors as per process, product development, etc. Simultaneously, he/she will manage working relationships with existing vendors.

The responsibilities include:

  • Identifying products, offers, and negotiating the best rates
  • Analysis of consumption patterns across various geographies
  • Ensuring profitable growth for the categories
  • Inventory control, team management, conducting competition benchmarking, and market visits
  • Data analysis, planning, forecasting, sales growth, product enhancement, and product lifecycle management

Additionally, the role holder will be responsible for managing a team of officers/promoters and must be an excellent team manager. He/she will need to prepare and present reports and may be required to travel.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Must be a graduate/postgraduate/MBA with minimum 10 years of experience in FMCG (Sales GT background) or general merchandising product base industry (sales background) with good understanding of category.

Communication, negotiation, planning, delegation, coordination, follow-up, and team handling skills are essential. The ability to hand-hold and groom team members is also required.

Good interpersonal skills are necessary to maintain working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.

Proficiency in Excel is a must.



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