Licious Hiring for Category Manager at Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India Full Time

We are Licious and we are a Bengaluru based meat and seafood company founded in 2015 by Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta, our founders, foodies and friends. We pride ourselves on being India’s most successful D2C food-tech brand operating in 20 cities across the country delighting over 32 lac customers with our de-licious fresh meat and seafood! Think you have what it takes to be the magic ingredient in the recipe that is Licious? Read on…

Have you got an appetite for awesome?

As a A Category Manager at Licious, you will be expected to:-

Own the delivery of end to end category inputs including selection, pricing, availability, catalogue etc., while driving achievement of key outcomes top line revenue goals as well as bottom line gross margins goals.

• Selection: For every micro-market, the Category Manager will need to build the ideal assortment shelf to adequately showcase the width and depth of Licious selection, while balancing out constraints on discovery, wastage etc. This will need deep understanding of consumer behaviour and consumption at a regional level as well as competitive behaviour by way of both offline stores as well as online competition.
• Product Quality: Licious is a brand that obsesses about product quality in order to delight customers. To this extent, the Category Manager plays a key role in constantly improving / tweaking our product range basis both consumer as well as market feedback. This will also involve working closely with cross functional teams including NPD, Sourcing, Processing etc.
• Pricing: Pricing is a key input to customer conversion and the Category Manager plays a key role in defining and executing category pricing strategy for every micro market basis competitive pricing as well as profitability goals. This will also tie into the category’s assortment strategy and what role each part of the assortment plays to deliver overall objectives.
• Catalogue: Licious is the “Meat Expert” and dons this role to be able to engage and educate customers in their meat consumption journeys. To this extent, the catalogue needs to play a key role in providing the right information to consumers in an easily consumable fashion that will allow them to pick and choose the ideal products for their use case. This will involve several touch points including product images, title logic, tags etc.
• Profitability / Cost Management: The Category Manager firmly owns Gross Margin targets for their category and will hence need to influence all directly and indirectly controllable cost heads, to deliver gross margin goals. This will include all aspects of the PnL including buying price, selling price, discounts, wastage, packaging cost, processing cost etc.
• GTM / Channels: While the D2C channel is the primary distribution channel for Licious, there are other online and offline channels as well that need to be leveraged by the Category Manager to meet business objectives. The Category Manager will need to partner with Channel teams on developing and executing strategies around assortment, pricing, promotions etc. to deliver on channel objectives.
• Business Health: As the primary owner of the business, the Category Manager will need to define, track and review the right set of metrics / scorecards in order to manage the end to end health of the business and course correct as necessary to meet objectives.

Skill-sets:

• Customer obsession and a drive to keep improving the customer experience with Licious
• Being highly data oriented and analytical in order to solve complex business problems as well as take high quality decisions
• Being able to work with multiple stakeholders. The Category Manager role will work deeply with Sourcing, Processing, Packaging, QA, NPD, Growth, Marketing and so on to deliver category objectives.
• Thing Big – The ability to come up with large, disruptive ideas to change the way India shops and consumes meat

Preferred Experience :

• Category Management / PnL ownership roles in online / offline retail companies
• Exposure to digital first business models
• Tier I/II MBA with 0-3 years of post-MBA experience, preferably in category management roles
• Passionate about the Meat category. Previous experience in this category is a bonus, but not mandatory.
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