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JD – Assistant Category Manager – Fine Jewellery

Looking for a company that champions passion, courage and inventiveness, where you can be part of the team shaping the future of global commerce? Want to craft how millions of people buy, sell, engage, and give around the world? If you’re passionate about joining our purpose driven community, that is dedicated to building a forward-thinking and diverse environment, come to eBay – a company you will be proud to be a part of.

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About the team:

eBay India is a small team with a fast-paced work environment and entrepreneurial approach. We are setting up new business grounds up and reestablishing eBay in India

Job Description

eBay is looking for dynamic, customer focused, data driven, result oriented, people and business leader to grow one of the categories. The Assistant Category Manager, has end-to-end P&L responsibility for Fine Jewellery category and will be responsible for defining long-term strategic plans, driving day-to-day operational improvement, building and growing strategic relationships with sellers and external partners, and building a high performing team.

Ideal Assistant Category Manager ought to be passionate and obsessed about delivering enhanced, extraordinary experience for customers in their category.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Innovate and continuously raise the bar on the experience.
• Focus on understanding needs, solving for problem areas, behaviours and preferences of customers in allocated category, and inventing new delightful experiences on their behalf.
• Deep dive and analyse and reflect on customer behaviour data, diligently read daily customer feedback, ratings and defect rates.
• Continuously improve the value eBay provides to its seller base.
• You shall work on diverse initiatives ranging from website feature improvements, driving adoption of seller services, selection acquisition planning, channel mix planning, catalog quality improvement, seller performance management, and more.
• You shall evangelise the strategic vision across these teams, defining shared goals, enabling mechanisms to drive cross-functional initiatives, and delivering strong and consistent results.
• You shall be monitoring and reporting on the performance and growth of their categories on a weekly and monthly basis with all important stakeholders.
• You shall review growth plans, progress and any changes in strategic direction with senior leadership at a regular interval.

Assistant Category Manager shall work along with Category Manager and charter growth plans for the category. You should have committed data driven decision-making, excellent business judgment, the ability to plan and prioritise, ability to encourage and lead cross-functional initiatives and teams, extraordinary verbal and written communication skills, and strong first principles (common sense).

What we Offer

• A great atmosphere and open company culture
• The complete autonomy to own your role
• The ability to feel that you are working in a startup environment but having the benefits of a MNC

Basic Qualifications

• Post-Graduation required, Top tier MBA preferred
• 3+ years of experience, experience in Jewellery industry, category management preferred
• Proficient in Excel and Access, or similar database
• Consistent track record of taking ownership and driving results
• Strong Analytical skills and highly comfortable with numbers
• Extraordinary social and interpersonal skills, including strong writing and speaking skills
• Excellent relationship builder with strong positive attitude
• Ability to both plan and execute
• Challenge and negotiate with partners where required while maintaining positive relationships
• Work within a dynamic environment and balance multiple priorities.
• Capable of excelling in a changing environment

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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