Category Lead - Decor

Role Overview

Category Lead - Decor at Land Mark. This role leads the decor category across buying, planning, data management, and business strategy to drive sales, profitability, and competitive positioning.

Role Purpose

Own the end-to-end decor category performance by aligning sourcing and sales strategy, managing inventory and buying budgets, maintaining financial and operational hygiene, and executing category management plans that maximize sales and profit while ensuring competitive market advantage.

Key Responsibilities

Sourcing & Sales Alignment

• Monitor latest trends in buying and reassess inventory and buying strategy accordingly.
• Identify and highlight opportunities to source products and ensure the company maintains competitive edge through constant data intelligence.
• Ensure effective communication, collation and follow-up on various product requirements and findings obtained from sales and store data.
• Gather information from market insights and global data.

Information Management

• Develop adequate data interface for buyers to arrange periodic discussion and actionable insights.
• Build and maintain relationships with interdepartmental communication based on data insights.
• Maintain contact with buyers and keep ready reckoner of category analysis based on customer journey.
• Identify, evaluate and help select appropriate vendors for long-term objectives based on data intelligence.

Buying Budget & Planning

• Determine buying requirements and formulate buying plan and budget for the company.
• Help meet profit targets by ensuring timely procurement and timeline analysis.
• Pursue cost reduction opportunities through indexing market cost.

Business Hygiene Management

• Demonstrate understanding of OTB and work closely with buying team providing insight to use OTB effectively.
• Monitor sales and movements of newly launched products and trigger reorders or task lists for buyers, ensuring gross profit health.
• Ensure financial hygiene checks and share findings with buyers for corrective actions.

Business Planning & Category Management

• Develop comprehensive business plans consistent with company's overall goals and strategies.
• Conduct category SWOT analysis versus competition and assess market opportunity for e-commerce and click & collect categories.
• Monitor and review performance of category business plans using appropriate scorecards.
• Oversee category management with objective of maximizing sales and profits.
• Plan and approve merchandising budget for the category.
• Discuss, decide and freeze merchandise plans including pricing, promotion and assortment, and ensure effective in-season management.