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Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
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Prithvi Krishna

Category Manager
Bangalore

Summary

I have 5 + years experience in Ecommerce domain wherein I had the rare privilege to scale the E-commerce business from scratch for Brand side and , experience Category managers role in the Ecommerce platform side too. A man always with a Plan B, am some one who is extremely passionate and willing to go that extra mile to get things done. A Problem Solver and a Challenge Lover, my interests lie in building businesses through effective Category Management, understanding consumer behavior, business planning and forecasting, effective channel management.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
3
3
Languages

Work History

Business Development Manager/Category Manager

Jiomart
07.2022 - Current
  • Track and monitor key metrics for business growth and help in improving the overall consumer
    experience, in collaboration with other stakeholders.
  • Assortment Management: Responsible for curating and managing the product assortment within their category. This involves selecting which products to feature, determining what new products to introduce, and deciding which items to remove or discontinue
  • Onboarded Marquee brands like Lizol, Harpic and Himalaya and top brands like Active white Detergent Powder which contribute to a total of 20% of Category GMV for Health & Personal wellness + HomeCare Category.
  • Pricing : Maintain price competitiveness with top competitors such as Flipkart and Amazon.
  • Come up with pricing strategies based on consumer buying behavior
  • Merchandising: Ensuring visibility of right products based on latest trends (or seasonality).
  • Ensuring better product discoverability to end consumer.
  • Deliver best ROI on the merchandising properties (such as DOTD etc, Category Page Banners etc)
  • Marketing: Working closely with the Marketing and Ad teams and Merchandising teams to enhance Category visibility and traffic.
  • Established relationships with key decision-makers within customer's organization to promote growth and retention.
  • Achievements:
  • Highest contribution to Category GMV (18%) in the Dussehra Sale month (Jio Utsav sale) of October
  • Highest contribution to Category GMV coming from Reliance Fulfillment Centers (12% to Overall Category GMV)

Category Manager, Buying

Supr Daily
08.2021 - 07.2022
  • Scaled top line of key accounts by 15% month on month through Joint Business Plans, Marketing Plans and BTL activities for Customer Activations
  • Onboarded key brands such as Himalaya, HUL,MamaEarth basis on Market Trends, Selection gaps and Business Needs
  • Grew Retained Margin from Key accounts from 9% to 14% in span of 5 months

- Grew mix of Challenger brands from 5% to 12%

- Grew Consumer Promos from certain key accounts leading to higher retained margin

  • Optimized key performance metrics of Brands such as Monthly Growth, Fillrates, Promo Depth and Coverage, Availability

- Improved FillRate from 51% to 91% in a span of 3 months through detailed fillrate plans and deep relations with the Brands

- Signed 4 TOT's in span of 5 months

- Through deep relationship with Brands improved the Promo Depth(from 3.5% to 10%) and Coverage (from 74% to 94%)

  • Constantly refreshed the assortment basis the market trends and larger level consumer service

Ecommerce Consultant

Yoga Bar
01.2021 - 04.2021

Responsible for the scaling the business of newly launched categories of Yogabar through Amazon Advertisements along with managing the P&L of the already existing categories

Assistant Brand Manager

Keya Foods International Private Limited
06.2018 - 09.2020

Keya E-commerce Website:

  • Responsible for creating an E-commerce portal for KeyaFoods, developed strategy and managed market communications and digital campaigns that drove business on the website
  • Business touched 7 figure in sales in fourth month of website launch and tripled the business in next 2 months

Amazon Seller Central:

  • Made significant contribution to Topline growth. Increased the business by 10 fold in 1 year and acquired over 1.5 lakh consumers on Amazon marketplace alone
  • Brand Store and Catalog Development(Product Features, Description, A+ Content etc)
  • Managing Advertising Campaigns and communication on Amazon Platform to drive sales with optimum spends
  • Other Functionalities:
  • Category Management: Launched new Products specifically for E-commerce business.Handled marketing communication and Inventory for the same
  • Ensured that promotions are enabled on Pantry and Bigbasket
  • Monitored and Analyzed key metrics such as Advertising Costs, Customer Acquisition costs and came up with Product Bundle offerings and pricing strategy to increase the customer basket size
  • Built and strengthened partnerships with Category managers of multiple marketplaces to maximize effectiveness of marketing strategies
  • Increased customer satisfaction and repeat business through relentless pursuit of resolutions to problems arising from post purchase mishaps thereby protecting company reputation and loyal client base(Improved seller rating from 44% to 90% on Amazon)

Intern

RichMinds Infra Pvt Ltd
04.2017 - 05.2017
  • Converted clients like Pfizer and Seven Hills hospitals
  • Made presentations to the Prospective Clients such as Four Points, Novotel, Pfizer, HSBC, Apollo Hospitals and Seven Hills Hospitals
  • Negotiated on Product Pricing with the Prospective Clients
  • Initiated Customer Servicing by handling Customer Grievances at the time of Product delivery

Education

MBA/PGDM -

Xavier Institute Of Management
06.2016 - 04.2018

B.Tech -

GITAM Institute Of Technology, GITAM University
Visakhapatnam
06.2010 - 04.2014

All India Senior School Certificate Examination - Mathematics, Physics And Chemistry

Kakatiya Public School,
Visakhapatnam
06.2008 - 04.2010

Secondary School Examination -

Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar
Visakhapatnam
06.2007 - 04.2008

Skills

Advertising on Marketplaces

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Accomplishments

  • Received the employee of the month Award under "Mover of the Mountains" category for the month in Jiomart - Sept 2023
  • Received WOW card for Keya E-Commerce Success (For crossing the 0.5 Cr Milestone) - Dec 2019
  • Received Certificate of Achievement for Keya E-commerce Business growth - Dec 2019
  • Awarded "Individual Excellence Award", for 2nd Quarter in the Financial Year 2018-2019 at KeyaFoods.- Jan 2019
  • Received a WOW Card for "Great coordination with all the stakeholders to deliver results for E-commerce Website" at KEYA Foods - Nov 2018


Certification

Online course certification in Brand and Product Management by IE Business School on Coursera

Software

Amazon

BigBasket

Flipkart

Brand Owned E-Commerce Portal

Snapdeal

Timeline

Business Development Manager/Category Manager

Jiomart
07.2022 - Current

Category Manager, Buying

Supr Daily
08.2021 - 07.2022

Ecommerce Consultant

Yoga Bar
01.2021 - 04.2021

The Complete Digital Marketing Course on Udemy

12-2019

Assistant Brand Manager

Keya Foods International Private Limited
06.2018 - 09.2020

Online course certification in Brand and Product Management by IE Business School on Coursera

10-2017

Online course certification in Customer Analytics from Wharton ,University of Pennsylvania on Coursera

09-2017

Intern

RichMinds Infra Pvt Ltd
04.2017 - 05.2017

MBA/PGDM -

Xavier Institute Of Management
06.2016 - 04.2018

B.Tech -

GITAM Institute Of Technology, GITAM University
06.2010 - 04.2014

All India Senior School Certificate Examination - Mathematics, Physics And Chemistry

Kakatiya Public School,
06.2008 - 04.2010

Secondary School Examination -

Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar
06.2007 - 04.2008
Prithvi KrishnaCategory Manager