Myntra Hiring for Manager – Buying & Merchandising (Foot Wear) at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

House of Brands (HOB) is a cluster of Myntra & FK owned brands along with few national & international

brands in its kitty.

Role

Roles & Responsibilities

 Building & Executing category strategy to Build Private Label brands, working closely with

internal cross-functional stakeholders across Category, Marketing, Site merchandising,

Operations, Analytics, Product & Design teams as well as building & maintaining excellent

relationships with the relevant brands/sellers/ MP Vendors.

 Own top line, as well as the bottom line for the accessories categories, drive revenue and

margins.

 Determine ever-evolving customer needs, monitor local and global trends & grow selection

to cater to those via onboarding necessary brands & Market place sellers.

 Work with marketing teams and MP partners to come up with innovative promotions as well

as to get support for marketing campaigns.

 Ownership to drive necessary initiatives end-to-end and ability to manage multiple,

competing priorities simultaneously

Skills

 Advanced proficiency with MS PowerPoint, MS Excel (SQL preferred)

 Strong analytical skills with proven ability to interpret data and link category management

data to business scenarios.

 Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

 Category and brand specific growth plan.

 P&L planning at category, brand level. P&L Metric tracking

 Inventory planning and management aligned with sales and marketing plan, focusing on top-

sellers, to improve inventory turn and optimized discounting, DOH for entire category.

 Ensuring our top-sellers are in category/ sub-category sales ranks with good visibility and

discoverability.

 Assortment Planning – Data Analysis, Insights Generation, Options Planning (Width,Depth)

 Competition / Market Analysis.

 Category Health Management – STRs, DOH, Ageing, Portfolio Mix of Core / Fashion.

 Monthly Sales planning and execution – coordination with sales and marketing teams

 Team / Stakeholder Management – Working closely with buying, sourcing, brand, sales and

planning teams for delivery of business plans

 Projects– Driving key initiatives / projects for category growth and profitability improvement

across supply chain, planning, sales, etc.; Process Improvement across the value chain

Qualifications & Experience

 MBA from a reputed institute

 Over all 8 to 10 yrs of Experience. Minimum 5 years of Ecommerce category management

Experience

 Experience in the Non Apparel category is preferred.

 Educational background or courses with Fashion Institutes will be added advantage