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About the Role 

What you’ll do: 

1. New Product Launches: Product Development & Launch

• Defining Product Requirements (Specs & Target Costs that meet customer needs, competitive product popularity, and affordable pricing) that the Sourcing Team would use for Product Development with Global Suppliers
• Structuring the Annual product launch pipeline plans based on Sales AOPs, Category & Customer needs, and product trends
• Collaborating with the Sourcing, Quality & Finance teams to ensure timely Product development, Quality testing, Production, and Logistics delivery to Flipkart Warehouses for new product launches

2. Product Portfolio Management: Sales, P&L, Marketing, and Inventory Replenishment

• Developing the Portfolio Sales AOPs across Categories based on overall Flipkart sales projections, planned target share of category sales, and new product launch plans
• Managing Sales, P&L, Visibility, Marketing, Category Share, Inventory Availability and New Product Development across a large portfolio of Categories

3. Team Management

• Managing a cross-functional team of individuals from various teams such as Marketing, Sourcing, Quality, Operations and aftersales, etc. that own product launches from their respective functional areas.

What you’ll need:

• Prior experience in Brand Management would be an added advantage 
• Strong project management/organizational skills 
• Strong analytical orientation/bent of mind and customer understanding 
• Ability to translate strategies into execution plans and take them to completion 
• Must be willing to learn & develop an eCommerce way of thinking 
• Strong program management skills, multi-tasking ability & interpersonal communication - ability to work with multiple cross-functional teams on fragmented workstreams 
• Strong bias for Action - Flipkart works at a very rapid pace
• Product Portfolio Management experience on Sales, P&L, and Inventory Availability
• Project Management experience
• Understanding of customer segmentation and customer needs
• Marketing Experience would be required