Assistant General Manager (Site Merchandiser/Online Merchandsier - Fashion)

Role Overview We are seeking a data-driven Assistant General Manager with over 15 years of experience to lead product strategy, inventory optimization, and sales growth in a fast-paced retail and e-commerce environment. The ideal candidate will seamlessly integrate fashion merchandising expertise with IT and e-commerce platforms to maximize profitability, enhance operational efficiency, and drive customer satisfaction. Key Responsibilities Merchandising & Sales Strategy * Design and execute comprehensive sales and promotional strategies, utilizing market segmentation to capitalize on e-commerce and retail business opportunities. * Analyze periodical sales trends, identify inventory gaps, and implement corrective actions to sustain revenue performance. * Apply data mining, statistical modeling, and sales analytics to identify cross-selling and upselling opportunities that maximize customer revenue. * Responsible to ensuring the top and middle funnel of ecommerce in terms of providing visibility and discoveribility of the right products at right time, place and price * Implement strategic inventory management systems to reduce product aging, minimize obsolescence, and maintain optimal stock levels. * Supervise visual merchandising, website content, and system UI improvements to enhance user accessibility and SEO. * KPIs like CTR, Conversions, growth in visibility and revenue, reduction in aged inventory * Spearhead automation, system enhancements and workflow optimizations to reduce manual intervention, improve efficiency, and ensure data integrity. Quick Commerce - Fashion: Merchandising & Sales Strategy * Monitor real-time sales metrics, sell-through rates, and stock availability to optimize item movement and revenue velocity. * Monitor inventory allocation, balancing stock levels across regional fulfillment hubs and local dark stores based on demand forecasting. * Analyze micro-market customer buying patterns and seasonal trends to tailor product assortments for localized quick commerce nodes * Devise Automated Replenishment System framework to automate and integrate entire forward as well as reverse inventory allocation to the darkstore basis sales trends, turn over rates, TAT timing etc * Strategically designing and maintaining Fashion sections within the QWIK business page on the app considering business requirement, events and festivals, sales and inventory and other conversion matrices Content / Catalogue - Leadership & Operations * Monitor the overall productivity across various key functions like product go live output, Out QC, product reviews etc * Lead catalog automation initiatives to increase product listing speed and improve overall data accuracy and quality assurance. Team Leadership & Operations * Manage and mentor a team of 10-12 Fashion merchandisers - set goals for individual team members and aligning them with the organizational objectives, led team development programs focusing on leadership skills and performance optimization * Manage and mentor a team core team members of the content team and aligning individual performance of the entire team with organizational objectives. * Spearhead system enhancements and workflow optimizations to reduce manual intervention, improve efficiency, and ensure data integrity.