What are the responsibilities and job description for the Category Specialist position at ektello?
Job Description
Category Specialist, DTC eCommerce - Home Appliances
Key Responsibilities/Requirements
Role and Responsibilities:
Skills
Category Specialist, DTC eCommerce - Home Appliances
Key Responsibilities/Requirements
Role and Responsibilities:
- Manage: The Category Specialist will support the general manager of the DTC business for these HE products. You will work with cross-functional teams on areas such as forecasting, demand generation, merchandising, marketing, customer experience, finance, fulfillment,
- Build: Help build a best-in-class digital experience focused on an end-to-end shopping journey focused on the customer, brand, and product. Build and execute GTM strategy working with stakeholders from product management and engineering.
- Optimize: Synthesize data into meaningful insights to 1- enable consistent and timely decisions to help grow the business. 2- Optimize for conversion from product discovery throughout the journey ending with delivery. 3- Identify areas of improvement opportunities and
Skills
- Execution. Passionate about process. Someone who can see the big picture and continually improve ways of working. You can flawlessly execute and have a relentless focus on driving towards objective goals.
- Results Oriented. Data-driven, customer-centric, story-teller who is passionate about leveraging insights to make recommendations and drive change. You always think about the customer first and are persistent in the pursuit of improving their engagement and experience.
- Digitally savvy and passionate about the intersection of technology and consumer products. You have a relentless focus on optimization and improvement, and always approach business challenges thinking- is there a better way?
- Collaborative, team builder with high organizational EQ who can work cross-functionally and can quickly develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- 3 years of experience in Business Management experience for Technology, Consumer Products, and/or Consumer Electronics.
- Extensive experience implementing category strategy in direct-to-consumer eCommerce.
- Knowledge and passion for direct-to-consumer eCommerce business practices and operations. Digital UI/UX enhancements experience a plus.
- Ability to facilitate cross-functional teams and navigate matrixed organizations in a global setting.
- Strong analytical, data-driven problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and deadlines on multiple initiatives with competing priorities, cutting through noise and focusing on the business impact.
- Entrepreneurial spirit and excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
- Experience with Tableau, Confluence, SQL preferred
- College degree required; MBA a plus.
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