Category Manager, Personal Computing and IOT

Job description

About the Role

As a Category Manager, you will focus on delivering 5 core focus areas for the brand: Selection, demand generation, catalogue quality, business advice and availability.

The person who joins the leadership team in this position must share our passion and commitment for serving our customers. This ideal candidate should have experience in forging and building brand relationships. Some understanding of planning product cycles and selling online is preferred. The right candidate will be flexible, action and results oriented, self-starting and have strong analytical skills. He or she must have a proven track record in taking ownership, driving results and moving with speed to implement ideas in a fast-paced environment.

He should be entrepreneurial with the confidence to make independent, data-driven decisions. The candidate must demonstrate the ability to succeed at: planning and forecasting, and driving an online business. The candidate must be an effective communicator in working with some of Amazon’s most important partners and vendors, as well as with internal colleagues and groups.

Key job responsibilities

This person will have responsibility for:

Building selection

Identify selection gaps. Track brand’s offline catalogue to ensure all relevant selection is present on Amazon.

Demand generation

Responsible for demand generation. This includes working with other members on the category management team to create a marketing calendar based on vendor's objectives

Business Advice

Support participation of brand in Amazon programs

Availability

Ensuring continuous availability of products

Catalogue Quality on Amazon

Ensuring the best input from brand is updated for customer interface on Amazon Detail Pages through perfect Images, Product descriptions, etc.