2022 Assistant Category manager - Bangalore null

About the opportunity

Meesho is India’s fastest-growing e-commerce company. We started in 2015 with the idea of helping mom & pop stores to sell online. Today, 5% of Indian households shop with us on any given day. We’ve helped over 15 million individual entrepreneurs start online businesses with zero investment. We’re democratizing internet commerce by offering a 0% commission model for sellers on our platform — a first for India. We aim to become the e-commerce destination for Bharat.

We’re currently valued at $4.9 billion with marquee investors supporting our vision. Some of them include Sequoia Capital, Softbank, Fidelity, Proses Ventures, Facebook, and Elevation Capital. We were also featured in Y Combinator’s 2021 Top Companies List and were the only Indian startup to make it to Fast Company’s The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies in 2020. We ranked 6th in Linkedin’s Top Startups List 2021. Our strongest asset is our people. We have gender-neutral and inclusive policies to promote our people-first culture.

About the team

Did you know that grocery has the biggest share of the overall retail spend in India? Grocery is projected to be an $800B market in 2024 – of which, the majority contribution will come from non-metro cities. As Assistant Category Manager - FMV, you will lead Meesho towards becoming the preferred destination for groceries. Our Farmiso team at Meesho interacts closely with all stakeholders to develop the right strategies to penetrate the grocery sector in tier-2, tier-3 cities. Our tasks include tracking vendor profiles, assortment relevance, fulfillment rates, customer profiles, buying patterns, and marketing campaigns. 

Our team consists of highly energetic individuals who take complete ownership of their tasks and never shy away from going the extra mile. Plus, we are a family here and often find ways to spend quality time together. 

 About the role

As Assistant category manager - FMV, you will own the P&L be the single point of contact for the entire category. You will maintain end-to-end visibility of how the category is functioning. You will look at the category holistically and devise and implement strategies for growing the category. This includes interacting with various stakeholders to identify swift and scalable operation procedures and implement them. 

What you will do

• Drive marketplace growth of relevant categories, keeping in mind the consumer and the competition
• Understand our processes as well as implement market mapping 
• Plan assortment, prices, offers, promos, etc., to grow your respective category
• Understand consumer behavior, preferences, and strategies followed by competitors
• Own the P&L of the category Handle and all revenue-related processes along with cost centers to increase profits
• Spot broader trends to increase SKUs and customer basket size
• Identify consumer and competitor trends to come up with a plan of action at the right time

What you will need

• Graduate/Post Graduate degree in any discipline
• Min 1 year of relevant experience, preferably in a startup or e-commerce
• Strong Analytical skills, ability to use data to come up with solutions to problems
• Proven people management skills