Category Planner

Company Overview

A1 BAZAAR is building a modern value-fashion and lifestyle retail format designed for families in India’s Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets. Its assortment includes clothing, beauty, luggage, toys, accessories, and everyday lifestyle products, all positioned at attractive price points. The brand’s mission is to make quality, trend-aware products widely accessible while creating a welcoming, family-oriented store experience. Beginning in Eastern India, the company is expanding quickly into new towns and communities with the goal of becoming a trusted value retail chain for a broad customer base.

Role Overview

This full-time, on-site position in Siliguri focuses on planning and managing product categories across fashion and lifestyle lines. The role is centered on ensuring the right product mix, pricing strategy, and stock availability to match customer demand and business goals. It requires close coordination with buying, merchandising, and store operations teams to improve assortment performance and deliver a strong in-store shopping experience.

Key Responsibilities

The Category Planner will analyze sales and inventory trends, build demand forecasts, and support replenishment planning to maintain healthy stock levels. The role includes monitoring how each category performs, identifying opportunities for growth, and helping shape markdown and promotional decisions. Seasonal planning and inventory turn optimization are also important parts of the job, along with collaboration across functions to keep products flowing efficiently through the business.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Hands-on experience in category planning or management, including assortment building, pricing, and promotional planning across several product groups.
• Solid capability in demand forecasting and inventory control, with a focus on replenishment planning and stock optimization.
• Strong analytical ability to work with sales, margin, and stock data and use insights to support commercial decisions.
• Good communication and coordination skills for working with buying, merchandising, finance, and store operations teams.
• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Retail Management, Statistics, or a related discipline is preferred; background in fashion or value retail is an added advantage.
• Advanced Excel proficiency and familiarity with retail planning tools or ERP systems, along with comfort handling large datasets.
• Commercial thinking, strong attention to detail, and the ability to perform well in a fast-moving growth environment.
• Willingness to work from the Siliguri location and regularly engage with store teams to understand local customer preferences.

Additional Information

This is a permanent full-time role based on site in Siliguri, West Bengal, India. No stipend or salary figure has been specified in the source information.