Instock Manager

Cocoblu is looking for a professional responsible for responsible for driving inventory decisions and key supply chain initiatives for CB’s fast-growing business. The role will be responsible for developing and executing best practices in managing inventory to maximize sales, margin, and inventory turns.

About Cocoblu:

We exist to help brands soar online.

With the whole world going online, it’s never been more critical to get any business’ e-commerce plan right. We have expertise in helping brands navigate complex categories and crowded marketplaces and come out on top. We’ve spent years delivering success and customer delight online for hundreds of brands.

With years of experience, cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes, a robust infrastructure, and a dedicated team, we're ready to welcome you to join us in shaping the future of online excellence.

Join the Cococrew and be a part of our success story!"

The ingredients for this role:

Instock Manager will be responsible for driving inventory decisions and key supply chain initiatives for CocoBlu’s fast-growing business. S/he will be responsible for developing and executing best practices in managing inventory to maximize sales margin, and inventory turns. S/he will have the responsibility of ensuring all inventory systems and processes are meeting the needs of the business and implementing controls around these processes.

Your day-today tasks will include:

Demand Planning–

• Determining the order quantities by considering forecasts, historical trends and inventory targets.

Inventory Management–

• Manage inventory availability and inventory health including improved in-stock, turns, vendor operational improvement (efficiency, fill rates, lead time) and forecasting.

Define Operational strategy-

• Responsible for defining Operational strategy & Manage day-to-day operational relationships with vendors and distributors partners, including product lifecycle management, expanding selection and optimize sourcing recommendations / decisions.

Drive Efficiency–

• Drive metrics to improve efficiency including inventory replenishment, managing overstock inventory, and operational processes.

Manage Brands–

• Maintain vendor relationship and work on vendor performance improvement through daily communication, training session, tracking purchase orders, investigating late deliveries, resolving order rejections, working with vendors on PO automation, etc.

What will help you succeed in the role:

Knowledge you need:

• Be an Automation Champion by advocating for better buying tools.
• Experience working with high preforming teams.
• Good organizational skills including prioritizing, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines.
• Building mechanisms that help navigate teams in a demanding and often ambiguous environment.

Required Skills:

• Professional experience in operations, inventory planning, demand forecasting, and/or product life cycles
• Self-starter with a high level of flexibility and commitment.
• Proactive attitude and willingness to roll up sleeves and dig deep to achieve goals.
• Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast-paced environment.
• Detail orientation with the ability to crunch large data volumes.

Education & Work Experience:

• Full-Time MBA from Tier 1 institutions.
• 3+years of experience and proven track record of managing and executing large projects from start to finish, including project management, data gathering and modeling, problem solving, and communicating recommendations.
• Ideal candidate has worked in Softlines in Ecommerce/Retail background.

Abilities that will help you shine:

• To walk in our customers shoes and grow our vendor partners business by anticipating their unexpressed needs
• To anticipate roadblocks and seek out solutions before they occur
• To keep experimenting and running pilot programs to evaluate what works best
• To make decisions based on data combined with judgement and intuition
• To strive for continuous improvement
• To be action oriented
• To be vocally self-critical to arrive at better solutions.

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Business Finance Partner:

A passionate customer and category advocate who excels at with driving business growth and profitability.

About Cocoblu:

We exist to help brands soar online.

With the whole world going online, it’s never been more critical to get any business’ e-commerce plan right. We have expertise in helping brands navigate complex categories and crowded marketplaces and come out on top. We’ve spent years delivering success and customer delight online for hundreds of brands.

With years of experience, cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes, a robust infrastructure, and a dedicated team, we're ready to welcome you to join us in shaping the future of online excellence.

Join the Cococrew and be a part of our success story!"

The ingredients for this role:

The Business Finance Partner will collaborate closely with various departments to deliver financial analysis, strategic planning, and support for business decisions. This role involves interpreting financial data, forecasting, budgeting, and providing actionable recommendations to optimize financial performance and achieve business objectives.

Your day-today tasks will include:

Financial Analysis and Planning–

• Conduct detailed financial analysis and interpret financial results.
• Prepare and present financial reports, including variance analysis, KPIs, and performance metrics.
• Monitor and analyse financial trends, identifying risks and opportunities.

Budgeting and forecasting–

• Lead the budgeting process, working with departmental heads to develop annual budgets.
• Create financial forecasts and models to predict future financial performance.
• Track and report on actual vs. budget performance, providing insights and recommendations.

Strategic Support-

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organization.
• Act as a trusted advisor to department heads, providing financial expertise and guidance.
• Facilitate effective communication between finance and other business units.

Project Management-

• Support financial aspects of key projects and initiatives.
• Ensure financial considerations are integrated into project planning and execution.
• Track project costs, benefits, and financial outcomes.

Compliance and Risk Management-

• Ensure compliance with financial regulations, standards, and internal policies
• Identify and mitigate financial risks, developing strategies to address them
• Conduct financial audits and ensure accurate financial reporting

What will help you succeed in the role:

Knowledge you need:

• Be an Automation Champion.
• Strong knowledge of financial principles, practices, and reporting standards.

Required Skills:

• Prior experience in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning.
• Manage the budgeting process in collaboration with departmental leaders to formulate yearly budgets.
• Support the assessment of investment prospects, initiatives to reduce costs, and enhancements in profitability.

Education & Work Experience:

• Completed CA with 4+ years of experience
• Proven experience in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic planning.
• Strong knowledge of financial principles, practices, and reporting standards.
• Conduct financial audits and ensure accurate financial reporting

Abilities that will help you shine:

• To walk in our customers shoes and grow our vendor partners business by anticipating their unexpressed needs
• To anticipate roadblocks and seek out solutions before they occur
• To keep experimenting and running pilot programs to evaluate what works best
• To make decisions based on data combined with judgement and intuition
• To strive for continuous improvement
• To be action oriented
• To be vocally self-critical in order to arrive at better solutions.

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Marketing Manager

Cocoblu is looking for Performance Marketing Manager for Bangalore location. Professionals experienced in digital and performance marketing including paid search, paid display, SEO, content and paid social with sharp analytical skills, ability to develop mechanisms for success and the ability to build relationships with external and internal stakeholders to drive initiatives that require cross functional inputs.

About Cocoblu:

We exist to help brands soar online.

With the whole world going online, it’s never been more critical to get any business’ e-commerce plan right. We have expertise in helping brands navigate complex categories and crowded marketplaces and come out on top. We’ve spent years delivering success and customer delight online for hundreds of brands.

With years of experience, cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes, a robust infrastructure, and a dedicated team, we're ready to welcome you to join us in shaping the future of online excellence.

Join the Cococrew and be a part of our success story!"

The ingredients for this role:

A Marketing Manager at Cocoblu will focus on enhancing the online presence of our brands via thought through & robust performance marketing strategies. Your scope will include handling performance marketing management for Softline Private Brand (SPB) and newly launched in-house labels selling via Cocoblu. During the course of the role, you will be given responsibilities to own large scale & complex projects which will exert a considerable impact on customer experience and our business.

Your day-today tasks will include:

Marketplace advertisements

• Ownership of conceptualizing, executing, and optimizing advertising campaigns.
• Aligning ad spends with business goals, seasonal trends, and optimizing spending based on performance.
• Coordinating with CM/VMs and external partners for specific initiatives such as new product launches and driving product visibility.
• Regularly tracking and sharing campaign performance with the team.
• Daily monitoring of balance, spending, sales, and ACOS at a brand level, with course correction if necessary.
• Serving as a single point of contact for liaison with agency partners for daily operations and execution.

Ads Performance Reporting –

• Leveraging data to improve efficiency and providing business insights on performance.
• Tracking performance through a consolidated scorecard using key metrics such as CTR, CVR CPC, ROAS, ACOS etc

Ads Performance Reporting

• Leveraging data to improve efficiency and provide business insights on performance.
• Tracking performance through a consolidated scorecard using key metrics such as CTR, CVR CPC, ROAS, ACOS etc.

Off Market Place Advertisements

• Driving ads on platforms outside of Amazon, including Google, Meta, external app properties etc.
• Drive new initiatives across other channels and partners to help grow the brands.
• Drive new initiatives across other channels and partners to help grow the brands.

Knowledge you need

• Experience in digital and performance marketing including paid search, paid display, SEO, content and paid social

Innovate-

• Invent and drive continuous process improvement and automation across our systems to allow us to scale a fast-growing business.

What will help you succeed in the role:

Knowledge you need:

• Experience in digital and performance marketing including paid search, paid display, SEO, content and paid social.

Required Skills:

• Sharp analytical skills
• Ability to develop mechanisms for success
• Ability to build relationships with external and internal stakeholders to drive initiatives that require cross functional inputs

Education & Work Experience:

• Full-Time MBA with 4+ years of experience.
• Minimum of at least 1 year in brand marketing/product management within E-commerce/FMCG/retail/D2CLaunched new brands on platforms.
• Ideal candidate worked in Ecommerce/Retail/FMCG background.

Abilities that will help you shine:

• To walk in our customers shoes and grow our vendor partners business by anticipating their unexpressed needs
• To anticipate roadblocks and seek out solutions before they occur
• To keep experimenting and running pilot programs to evaluate what works best
• To make decisions based on data combined with judgement and intuition
• To strive for continuous improvement 
• To be action oriented 
• To be vocally self critical in order to arrive at better solutions.

Apply Now

Vendor Operations Associate

We are looking for a smart, enthusiastic, hard-working, and creative candidate to join our team as a Vendor Operations Associate.

About Cocoblu:

We exist to help brands soar online.

With the whole world going online, it’s never been more critical to get any business’ e-commerce plan right. We have expertise in helping brands navigate complex categories and crowded marketplaces and come out on top.

We’ve spent years delivering success and customer delight online for hundreds of brands.

With years of experience, cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes, a robust infrastructure, and a dedicated team, we're ready to welcome you to join us in shaping the future of online excellence.

Join the Cococrew and be a part of our success story!"

The ingredients for this role:

A Vendor Operations Associate at Cocoblu will focus on inventory management, solving vendor queries, process owner for executing removal workflows for multiple categories, own responsibility for driving reduction in unhealthy and unsellable inventory through “Return to vendor”, “Refurbishment” and “Liquidation” based workflows encompassing multiple vendors and ensuring smooth vendor experience.

Your day-today tasks will include:

• Assisting Seller teams with various processes like forecast utilization, scheduling appointments, reducing NCNS.
• Preparing and sharing daily reports such as forecast utilization, NCNS (No Call No Show), Completed and Cancelled, Minutes of Meeting for daily connects conducted with Seller teams and sharing weekly reports such as Standing appt, ISA dump (for ISA utilization confirmation).
• Working on Rejection cases which are side-lined due to multiple issues and act as a bridge between Seller teams, FC and NOC to resolve the issue.
• Working on Vendor Escalations like side-lining of goods due to various issues at FC. Sorting the same, by acting as a bridge between Amazon Team, FC, and Vendor to resolve the issue.
• Compiling and preparing the reports such as Open PO Report, Inventory report, NCNS Report (No Call No Show – Where Vendors book appointment, but do not deliver) and other reports on ad-hoc basis.
• Facilitating the Vendors with appointment requests, appointment prepone / postpone.
• Helping the Vendors with ad-hoc requests such as PO flips, PO Cancellation / Cancellations, PO extensions, Cost updates

What will help you succeed in the role:

Knowledge you need:

• Numerical and analytical aptitude.
• MS-Office.
• Database management.
• Ecommerce / Retail knowledge.

Required Skills:

• Efficient Negotiation Skills.
• Excel – Basic formulas, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, Pivot Table, Toggling between sheets and workbooks, etc.
• Preparing reports and analyzing large set of data.
• Prioritizing tasks, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines.
• Experience in supply chain and inventory management.
• Coordinated with multiple stakeholders within and outside the organization.

Education & Work Experience:

• Full-Time Graduate / Masters’ with 2+ years of experience.
• Experience in data analysis and graphical projection of data.
• Managing the Returns and Refunds Process.
• Modification of appointments taken by vendor for supply goods.
• Solve the vendor query with effective suggestions related to the process.
• Inventory management with internal team of amazon.
• Using tools like selection central for updating the size, color brand name as per requirement.
• Collective data report and chart presentation for daily work traffic.

Abilities that will help you shine:

• To walk in our customers shoes and grow our vendor partners business by anticipating their unexpressed needs
• To anticipate roadblocks and seek out solutions before they occur
• To keep experimenting and running pilot programs to evaluate what works best
• To make decisions based on data combined with judgement and intuition
• To strive for continuous improvement 
• To be action oriented 
• To be vocally self-critical in order to arrive at better solutions.

Apply Now

Account Manager

A vendor's advocate who works with internal departments to ensure that Cocoblu's partners needs are understood and satisfied.

About Cocoblu:

We exist to help brands soar online.

With the whole world going online, it’s never been more critical to get any business’ e-commerce plan right. We have expertise in helping brands navigate complex categories and crowded marketplaces and come out on top.

We’ve spent years delivering success and customer delight online for hundreds of brands.

With years of experience, cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes, a robust infrastructure, and a dedicated team, we're ready to welcome you to join us in shaping the future of online excellence.

Join the Cococrew and be a part of our success story!"

The ingredients for this role:

As an Account Manager, we are seeking a highly motivated individual who would be responsible for signing the right mix of sellers, building relationships with top brands and vendors, adding unique local selection, identifying, and executing initiatives to boost growth, driving margin improvements and delivering top notch customer experience.

Your day-today tasks will include:

• He/she must be an effective leader and communicator working with our most important partners and vendors, as well as with internal colleagues and groups. He or she will have strong business judgment with a track record of strong ownership values.
• Success will be measured by the performance on input metrics and impact of vendors on creating a great customer experience for buying consumers.
• The individual is expected to take on larger responsibilities such as initiating and owning process improvement projects, participating actively in stakeholder calls/meetings etc.
• Lead a team of account managers to onboard vendors to build and lead campaigns on selection, drive Instock management, pricing, to optimize vendor terms and to get support for marketing campaigns.
• Own the input business metrics through tracking mechanisms thereby driving the vendors to create a great customer experience.
• Drive new product and feature launches on vendor central and enable vendors move towards self-serviceability.
• Ensure the right selection is listed with all vendors which would drive output metrics.
• Drive the team of associates to deep dive and analyze the issues for the vendors and publish recommendations and action plans based on data to improve vendor experience.
• Inventing and driving continuous process improvement and automation across our systems to allow us to scale a fast-growing business.
• Champion the vendor needs and manage long term vendor relationships with key partners by building strong communication channels at all levels. Set proper expectations, provide clear status communications, and enable vendors to achieve growth.
• Work with various internal teams (e.g., supply chain, fulfillment center) to resolve vendor issues and manage escalations

What will help you succeed in the role:

Although you'll receive comprehensive training for job success, the following will expedite your growth

Knowledge you need:

• Ecommerce / Retail knowledge.
• Motivating sellers to enhance the customer experience.
• Initiate new product and feature introductions on Vendor Central.

Required Skills:

• Experience as Sales manager / vendor manager / category manager / account manager role.
• Sourcing and onboarding sellers.
• Be an Excel Champion - Pivot, VLOOKUP/H-Lookup, Formulae.
• Initiating and owning process improvement projects and guide sellers by overseeing inventory management, setting prices, optimizing vendor agreements, and securing support for marketing initiatives.

Education & Work Experience:

• Full-Time Graduate / Masters’ with 2+ years of experience.
• Experience as a Sales Manager / Key Account Manager/Account Manager / Vendor Manager / Business Development Manager role.
• Generating leads, sourcing potential sellers from the industry and onboarding them to the platform.
• Experience in ensuring that the appropriate selection is available with all vendors to enhance output metrics and boost vendor growth in the marketplace.
• Prefer candidates worked in Ecommerce/Retail/FMCG background.

Abilities that will help you shine:

• To walk in our customers shoes and grow our vendor partners business by anticipating their unexpressed needs
• To anticipate roadblocks and seek out solutions before they occur
• To keep experimenting and running pilot programs to evaluate what works best
• To make decisions based on data combined with judgement and intuition
• To strive for continuous improvement 
• To be action oriented 
• To be vocally self-critical in order to arrive at better solutions.

Apply Now

About the Role

The In-stock Manager (ISM) will oversee the attainment of inventory plans from the supply side and will work closely with our Planning and Sourcing teams to manage smooth flow of inventory from our source base all the way to the Fulfilment Centres. The ability to work in a demanding but collegial, team-oriented environment is necessary, and management experience is required.

What will you do

• Analyse, create demand, capacity and supply plans to support the development of production placement strategies
• Develop new tools/solutions and enhancements to existing tools to support merchandise planning analytics and overall inventory management
• Understand customer demand and vendor performance patterns to inform purchasing and shipment decisions
• Serve as a subject-matter expert for business process improvements, inventory flow-forecasting activities
• Project and report supply pipeline status to the relevant stakeholders and maintain Purchase Order issuance hygiene

What will you need –

• MBA or a relevant Master’s degree in Supply chain operations or its equivalent
• 2-6years’ experience in logistics/operations/supply chain/project management/production/ procurement
• Experience in organising, analysing and presenting data
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
• Ability to evaluate factory WIPs and plan the necessary interventions.
• Proficient in use of analytical tools including Microsoft Excel, SQL and statistical software
• Proven track record of managing and executing large projects from start to finish, including project management, data gathering and modelling.
• Exceptional attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Must possess excellent business judgement, and strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to build strong internal and external relationship

Vendor Manager

A passionate customer and category advocate who excels at with driving business growth and profitability.

About Cocoblu:

We exist to help brands soar online.

With the whole world going online, it’s never been more critical to get any business’ e-commerce plan right. We have expertise in helping brands navigate complex categories and crowded marketplaces and come out on top.

We’ve spent years delivering success and customer delight online for hundreds of brands.

With years of experience, cutting-edge technology, streamlined processes, a robust infrastructure, and a dedicated team, we're ready to welcome you to join us in shaping the future of online excellence.

Join the Cococrew and be a part of our success story!"

The ingredients for this role:

A Vendor Manager at Cocoblu will focus on delivering exceptional sales and margin growth for a category that you will be responsible for. You will also be responsible for signing the right mix of vendors, smart pricing, driving growth and margin improvements while operating within inventory guardrails.

Your day-today tasks will include:

• Build selection and terms negotiation –
  • Will be responsible for determining customer market needs, growing selection across the category, brands and use cases, managing vendor partners, optimizing vendor terms, and getting support for promotions.

• Drive efficiency –
• Inventory turns / OTB Management: Will be responsible for operating on industry benchmark inventory turns for the category and generating a positive/self-sustaining business by efficient OTB management.

• Strategize Pricing-
• Responsible for pricing strategy for the category so that we can offer the customers the best value, value being a combination of price and any convenience. Also, be responsible for using pricing as a lever to ensure efficient cash flow management against the profitability goal.

• Build Business plan and communicate to senior management-
• Develop a short-term and long-term plan for growth and report to Senior Management on a regular basis on the state of key topline and bottom-line metrics and risk factors.

• Manage Brands-
• Manage all the input and output metrics for your respective set of brands/ vendors. Work closely with the vendors to ideate, finalize, and execute the joint business plans with the brands/vendors.

• Innovate-
• Invent and drive continuous process improvement and automation across our systems to allow us to scale a fast-growing business.

What will help you succeed in the role:

Knowledge you need:

• Launching new brands on platform.
• Risk assessment.
• Proactively manage and nurture vendor relationships.
• Measure vendor performance.
• Managing P&L, terms of business and models, buying cost, price and quality benchmarking and portfolio management for the brands.

Required Skills:

• Efficient Negotiation Skills.
• Vendor/Brands onboarding and choosing the right vendors for your business.
• Building selection, Pricing and Terms negotiation.
• P&L and OTB Management.

Education & Work Experience:

• Full-Time MBA with 3+ years of experience.
• Experience as a Sales Manager / Vendor Manager / Category Manager / Account Manager role.
• Launched new brands on platforms.
• Ideal candidate worked in Ecommerce/Retail/FMCG background.

Abilities that will help you shine:

• To walk in our customers shoes and grow our vendor partners business by anticipating their unexpressed needs
• To anticipate roadblocks and seek out solutions before they occur
• To keep experimenting and running pilot programs to evaluate what works best
• To make decisions based on data combined with judgement and intuition
• To strive for continuous improvement 
• To be action oriented 
• To be vocally self-critical in order to arrive at better solutions.

Apply Now