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Category Team Lead at Meesho | E-commerce & Category Management | Footwear | Assortment Planning | Vendor Management | Pricing Strategy | Marketplace Growth

About

I am a Category Management and E-commerce professional with 7+ years of experience across business development, key account management and marketplace operations at Meesho, Flipkart, Prione and Flowbook. At Meesho, I lead a team of 10 Key Account Managers supporting Men’s, Women’s and Kids’ Footwear. My work connects customer demand, assortment planning, supplier development, pricing competitiveness and product quality with category performance. My experience includes: • Category growth: Reviewing GMV, NMV, orders, conversion and search performance to identify business gaps and prioritise actions. • Assortment and pricing: Identifying selection gaps, supporting seasonal merchandising and working with suppliers on availability, affordable products and pricing. • Vendor and account management: Seller onboarding, supplier development, performance reviews and revival of underperforming accounts. • Customer experience: Combining customer feedback, product reviews and seller discussions to investigate low ratings, returns and product-quality issues. • Cross-functional execution: Working with search, demand, product-quality and operations teams on catalogue improvements, experiments and supplier programmes. • Team leadership: Setting priorities, coaching KAMs, tracking execution and presenting business insights to stakeholders. Earlier, I worked on seller acquisition and marketplace growth at Flipkart and supported Amazon marketplace seller onboarding through Prione. My strongest domain experience is in Footwear, Fashion and value-focused commerce, particularly customer needs in Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets. My professional interests include Category Management, E-commerce Growth, Brand Associate and Category Planning opportunities, including buying and merchandising roles that build on my assortment, pricing and supplier-management experience.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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notion

openai

ChatGPT

Work experience

Category Team Lead – Footwear at Meesho, Oct 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, On-site, Lead category performance and execution across Men’s, Women’s and Kids’ Footwear, managing a team of 10 Key Account Managers. • Set team priorities and review category performance across GMV, NMV, orders, conversion, search demand, customer ratings, returns and RTO. • Identify assortment gaps using customer demand, search performance and competitor analysis; coordinate selection expansion and supplier follow-ups. • Drive affordable-footwear sourcing through supplier discussions, product cost analysis and tracking of catalogue uploads, activation and restocking. • Conduct root cause analysis of product-quality and customer-experience issues using ratings, reviews, customer feedback and seller discussions. • Coordinate catalogue improvements, including product attributes, taxonomy, imagery and eligible catalogue reactivation. • Support seasonal merchandising, category landing pages, sale inputs, push-notification campaigns and search experiments with partner teams. • Coordinate supplier readiness for warehousing programmes and present business issues, progress and next actions in cross-functional reviews.

Senior Key Account Manager – Footwear at Meesho, Jun 2025 - Oct 2025 · 5 mos, Remote, Managed strategic Men’s Footwear supplier accounts, with a focus on account growth, pricing competitiveness, selection and catalogue quality. • Worked with suppliers on account plans, product availability, pricing and catalogue improvements. • Benchmarked competitor assortment and prices to identify opportunities for supplier action. • Supported seasonal merchandising and category landing-page improvements through product and selection inputs. • Mentored KAMs on supplier follow-ups, performance tracking and data-led execution. • Coordinated catalogue-quality, advertising and supplier-performance inputs with relevant teams.

Key Account Manager - Footwear at Meesho, May 2022 - Jun 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos, Remote, Managed Men’s Footwear supplier relationships across account growth, selection, pricing, catalogue quality and operational performance. • Developed supplier relationships and identified opportunities to expand assortment and improve product availability. • Tracked account performance, stockouts, catalogue imagery and pricing to prioritise supplier actions. • Supported major sale events through supplier preparation, product selection and stock-readiness follow-ups. • Worked on seller-revival initiatives to reactivate underperforming accounts. • Coordinated catalogue-accuracy and operational-compliance improvements. • Supported supplier onboarding into warehousing programmes and tracked readiness with partner teams.

Business Development Executive at Flipkart, Jun 2020 - May 2022 · 2 yrs, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Supported seller acquisition and marketplace growth across Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. • Identified and onboarded sellers from offline retail and wholesale networks to expand marketplace selection. • Guided sellers on platform tools, catalogue creation, onboarding requirements and operational processes. • Managed account relationships and identified growth opportunities through seller discussions and market analysis. • Monitored seller performance and coordinated follow-ups on activation, retention and operational issues.

Sales Associate at Prione Business Services Pvt. Ltd. (“Prione”), Nov 2019 - Jun 2020 · 8 mos, Greater Hyderabad Area, Supported seller onboarding and engagement for the Amazon marketplace through Prione. • Guided sellers through onboarding and initial marketplace processes. • Maintained CRM records and seller follow-ups to support engagement and platform adoption. • Contributed to market research and sales-planning activities.

Business Development Associate at Flowbook, Nov 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Greater Hyderabad Area, Worked on customer acquisition, client relationships and business development. • Identified prospects and supported product demonstrations and sales conversations. • Managed client follow-ups and supported engagement and retention initiatives.

Education

B.tech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Vagdevi College of Engineering