Category Manager

QUICK COMMERCE / CATEGORY MANAGER

Function: Ecommerce / Category | Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Chennai | Experience: 3–6 years

ABOUT WENOVA BRANDS

Wenova Brands is a Chennai-based consumer company building science-backed, purpose-driven food brands across D2C, digital, retail and international markets.

Our portfolio includes:

· Kiddikind - Doctor-developed, clean-label pediatric nutrition.

· Chewboo - Better-for-you snacking that brings together health, taste and convenience, without making healthy eating boring.

We're building brands that people don't just buy, but trust, choose and grow with.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Quick commerce is changing how consumers discover and buy food.

We're looking for a Quick Commerce / Category Manager to own our growth across platforms such as Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart and other relevant channels.

You'll sit at the intersection of category, sales, platform relationships, inventory and growth.

The goal is simple:

Make our products easier to find, easier to choose and harder to run out of.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

1. Category Growth

· Own category performance and growth across quick-commerce platforms.

· Develop platform-specific growth plans for Wenova's brands and products.

· Identify category trends, consumer behaviour and whitespace opportunities.

· Track competitors, pricing, assortment and visibility.

2. Platform Management

· Manage relationships with quick-commerce platforms and category teams.

· Drive listings, assortment, visibility, promotions and platform activations.

· Negotiate and execute commercial opportunities with platform partners.

· Ensure products are positioned effectively across platforms.

3. Sales & Performance

· Own GMV, sales, contribution and relevant category metrics.

· Analyse platform performance and identify opportunities for growth.

· Build promotional and pricing strategies that balance growth and profitability.

· Track campaign and promotion effectiveness.

4. Inventory & Availability

· Work closely with supply chain and operations teams to maintain availability.

· Monitor stock levels, fill rates, OOS and inventory movement.

· Identify fast-moving and slow-moving SKUs and take corrective action.

· Coordinate launches and new product onboarding across platforms.

5. Visibility & Merchandising

· Improve product discoverability through search, content, images, offers and placements.

· Work with brand and marketing teams on platform-specific content and campaigns.

· Identify opportunities for banners, collections, sponsored placements and other visibility levers.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

· 3–6 years of experience in Ecommerce, Quick Commerce, Category Management, Marketplace or Consumer businesses.

· Experience working with platforms such as Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy Instamart or similar.

· Strong understanding of category growth, marketplace metrics, pricing and promotions.

· Commercially sharp with strong analytical skills.

· Comfortable working with platform partners and internal teams.

· Strong ownership and negotiation skills.

Someone who sees a sales dip and thinks let's figure out why, not let's make a report about it.

Most importantly, we're looking for someone who wants to build categories, not just manage listings.

WHY WENOVA

1. Ownership - Own a growing category and directly influence sales and distribution.

2. Speed - Quick commerce moves fast. So do we.

3. Access - Work closely with leadership, brand, marketing, sales and supply chain teams.

4. Scale - Wenova already has 13 products, 40,000+ monthly orders and presence across major marketplaces and Apollo Pharmacy, with plenty more room to grow.

ONE LAST THING

We're building consumer brands, but we're also building the distribution engine behind them.

If you enjoy numbers, negotiations, platforms, growth and the occasional why are we out of stock again, you'll fit right in.