Regional Category Director - Fashion
Lazada South East Asia Pte. Ltd.
Reporting to the Regional Head of Category Management you will be responsible for:
- Defining the strategy for the category, growing assortment, seller and sale revenue, adapting strategy to local specificities and sharing best practices across the six Lazada countries
- Identifying growth opportunities based on customer insights
- Ensuring implementation of the strategy, working through the country teams on the ground (defining KPIs, setting targets, following up with the teams)
- Driving implementation of marketing and merchandising
- Identifying and developing projects to enhance both customer and seller experience for respective category
- Enabling sellers
- Leading and developing category management capability in both the region and country teams
In order to succeed in the role, you should ideally:
- Be an industry expert with at least 7-10 years of progressive work experience in buying and / or e-commerce, ideally in Women and Men’s Apparel
- Be a seasoned people leader with a minimum of 3 years’ management experience.
- Have a deep understanding of category operations and how each part of the ecosystem work both separately and collectively
- Possess strong business acumen with sound knowledge of monetization in this business model.
- Come with a good understanding on past, current, and potential trends.
- Have insights and with the ability to define and execute the strategy for this category
- Have a deep understanding of enabling sellers
- Have a flexible, adaptive and versatile personality
- Proven ability in building relationships in complex environment
- Be able to analyze data and derive insights to optimize the performance of the category
