Category Manager - Streetwear
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Department: Streetwear
Working Hours & Time: 11 AM - 8 PM // Mon - Sat
Location: New Delhi
About the Role:
By 2028, Indian streetwear is global news. Homegrown brands are scaling fast, marketplace volumes are exploding — and this role sits right at the center of that growth.
We’re building one of India’s most vibrant streetwear marketplaces, and we’re looking for a Category Manager - Streetwear (Menswear) to design and drive the commerce engine behind it.
This is a hands-on, ownership-heavy role where strategy meets execution. You’ll turn brand hype into real revenue, build long-term partnerships, and create systems that scale across online, offline, and collaborations.
Key Responsibility Areas:
- Own the end-to-end P&L, revenue, margins, and growth of the Streetwear (Apparel) category across marketplace and retail.
- Identify high-potential streetwear and fashion brands onto CDC’s marketplace.
- Manage the complete brand onboarding lifecycle, from prospecting and commercial negotiations to listing, go-live, and performance management.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with brand founders, business heads, and commercial teams.
- Lead negotiations on commissions, margins, pricing, payment terms, exclusivity, launches, and promotional structures.
- Develop and manage CDC’s brand portfolio, ensuring the right mix of established, emerging, and high-growth brands.
- Drive brand-level and category-level growth through assortment planning, new launches, collaborations, and commercial initiatives.
- Track brand and category performance across revenue, gross margins, sell-through, inventory turns, and profitability.
- Identify underperforming brands and products, and drive corrective actions including markdowns, promotions, replenishment, or rationalisation.
- Collaborate with Marketing, Content, Retail, and Operations teams to drive brand visibility, launches, and sales.
- Build scalable brand onboarding, management, reporting, and performance frameworks.
- Stay connected to streetwear, fashion, and emerging brands to identify new opportunities for CDC’s growth.
Who's this role for:
- 6–10 years of experience in Category Management, Buying, Merchandising, Business Development, Brand Partnerships, or Commercial roles.
- Strong experience in P&L ownership, revenue growth, margins, and category management.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience in brand/vendor management and negotiations.
- Good to have: Experience in brand onboarding, marketplace onboarding, and marketplace commercial negotiations.
- Good to have: Existing relationships with streetwear, fashion, D2C, lifestyle, and emerging Indian brands.
- Strong understanding of assortment, pricing, inventory, sell-through, and category performance.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with strong ownership and execution skills.