Category Manager- Quick Commerce

Srimandir · AppsForBharat — We're Hiring AppsForBharat runs Srimandir, India's largest devotional platform — ~40M+ downloads across three verticals: e-Pooja, e-Chadhava and e-Commerce. We're building India's most-recognised devotional brand, and we're now launching our commerce category on quick commerce (Blinkit, Zepto, Instamart) to take our reach from X to 100X households. These two roles own the two levers that decide whether we win that shelf: Visibility and Availability. Category Manager — Quick Commerce VISIBILITY Own how we get seen and convert on the quick-commerce shelf — pricing, ads, and platform relationships. Experience: 4–6 years · quick-commerce category experience strongly preferred The role You own visibility for the devotional category on quick commerce — winning the shelf and the conversion that follows. Your job is to make Srimandir the product people see, trust and buy: the right price on every lane, the right media behind the right SKUs, and the right relationships with each platform's team. You run the category like a P&L and grow it from launch. What you'll own - Pricing & margin architecture per sub-category — mass / mass-premium / premium — balancing reach (breakeven anchors) against margin (premium lanes). - Quick-commerce retail media / ads across Blinkit, Zepto and Instamart — search, visibility placements, and daily ROAS / ACOS management. - Platform relationships (KAM) — own the relationship and joint business plans (JBP) with each platform's category / account managers. - Assortment & listing performance — catalogue health, content and images, SKU-level conversion, and availability coordination with Ops. - Category P&L, GMV and market share — own the number; plan the BAU and festive visibility calendar. - Market & competitive intelligence — track sub-category trends, private labels and share shifts; feed assortment and pricing decisions. What success looks like (first 6–12 months) - Share of voice / visibility and SKU-level conversion at or above target on each platform. - Ad efficiency (ROAS / ACOS) within the agreed guardrail while scaling spend. - Category GMV and market-share growth versus launch baseline. - Clean, complete, high-converting listings and a live JBP with each platform. What you bring - 4–5 years in category management, brand, or e-commerce growth — hands-on quick-commerce experience (having run a category on Blinkit / Zepto / Instamart) strongly preferred. - Pricing and P&L fluency — comfortable owning a category number. - Retail-media / performance-ads capability (running and optimising platform ad consoles). - Strong platform KAM relationships and commercial-negotiation instinct. - Data-driven — strong Excel / analytics; makes decisions from SKU×city data. Nice to have - FMCG or D2C category background; exposure to festive / seasonal demand planning. - Affinity for the devotional / cultural space and Indian consumer nuance..