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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 andAvailability.\nCategory Manager - Quick Commerce VISIBILITY\nOwn how we get seen and convert on the quick-commerce shelf - pricing, ads, and platform relationships.\nExperience: 4-6 years · quick-commerce category experience strongly preferred\nThe role\nYou ownvisibility 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.\nWhat you'll own\nPricing & margin architecture per sub-category - mass / mass-premium / premium - balancing reach (breakeven anchors) against margin (premium lanes).\n\nQuick-commerce retail media / ads across Blinkit, Zepto and Instamart - search, visibility placements, and daily ROAS / ACOS management.\n\nPlatform relationships (KAM) - own the relationship and joint business plans (JBP) with each platform's category / account managers.\n\nAssortment & listing performance - catalogue health, content and images, SKU-level conversion, and availability coordination with Ops.\n\nCategory P&L, GMV and market share - own the number; plan the BAU and festive visibility calendar.\n\nMarket & competitive intelligence - track sub-category trends, private labels and share shifts; feed assortment and pricing decisions.\n\nWhat success looks like (first 6-12 months)\nShare of voice / visibility and SKU-level conversion at or above target on each platform.\n\nAd efficiency (ROAS / ACOS) within the agreed guardrail while scaling spend.\n\nCategory GMV and market-share growth versus launch baseline.\n\nClean, complete, high-converting listings and a live JBP with each platform.\n\nWhat you bring\n4-5 years in category management, brand, or e-commerce growth - hands-on quick-commerce experience (having run a category on Blinkit / Zepto / Instamart) strongly preferred.\n\nPricing and P&L fluency - comfortable owning a category number.\n\nRetail-media / performance-ads capability (running and optimising platform ad consoles).\n\nStrong platform KAM relationships and commercial-negotiation instinct.\n\nData-driven - strong Excel / analytics; 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