Assistant Manager - Category

Ways Of Working

Mandate 1 – Employees will come to the office twice or thrice a week at their base location and work remotely for the remaining days.

About Swiggy Instamart

Swiggy Instamart, is building the convenience grocery segment in India. We offer more than 30000 + assortments / products to our customers within 10-15 mins. We are striving to augment our consumer promise of enabling unparalleled convenience by making grocery delivery instant and delightful. Instamart has been operating in 90+ cities across India and plan to expand to a few more soon. We have seen immense love from the customers till now and are excited to redefine how India shops.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Business ownership & managing Business P&L for the region- Drive the regional business of grocery through a mix of assortment, pricing, promotions and vendor engagement initiatives to deliver overall growth of category
• Plan right product assortments, assortment benchmarking, assortment gaps fixation and review it every quarter for efficiency and productivity of each city to stay relevant for customers.
• In Depth Knowledge of commodities, regional variations, pricing, vendor sourcing, regional brands & MOP for key brand/items
• Develop & strengthen existing business relationship by engaging with brands, closing monthly business plan and overall business growth at brand level
• Plan, build & drive new categories/missing portfolio to gain maximum share in a division
• Ensuring 100% vendor fill, Wh availability and front end availability by working closely with brands for Delivery in full and on Time
• Delivering Visi investment targets from existing vendors to build strong platform presence and penetration of regional brands
• Ownership like an entrepreneur / Be a merchant / Build the category with a long-term view deliverable- Constantly benchmark on product range to ensure leadership position on the same every month.
• Drive PL category sales growth, share, profitability, availability and NPD push with PL regional repackers
  
  

Desired Skills

• Exp with 2-5 years of Grocery (or) Ecommerce/MT Retail experience (must)
• Demonstrated ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems
• Identifying customer needs and inventing new ways to meet those needs
• Tenacity to develop ideas independently and thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment
• Proven analytical thinking, project management skills, attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills are essential
• Excellent verbal and written communication with interpersonal skills
• Extreme attention to detail and willingness to roll up your sleeves.
  
  

"We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, colour, religion, sex, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by the law"