Responsibilities
About the Team The category strategist team aims to drive consumer traffic into our platform with an aim to convert them via the planning and executing the different levels of our annual campaign calendar for the marketplace, specific categories or brands. Responsibilities: In this role, you will be responsible for developing and executing strategic initiatives aimed at accelerating growth and achieving GMV targets within the FMCG categories. You will design tailored strategies for specific seller cohorts and initiatives, optimize resource allocation, and foster productive partnerships through joint business planning (JBP). Your role will also involve assessing platform channel prioritization, between the two key platforms TikTok Shop and Tokopedia, to maximize growth potential and ensure data-driven decision-making. The position requires a leader who can work autonomously in a fast paced, highly demanding and ambiguous environment. The successful candidate would possess great business judgment, with a track record of strong project delivery, commercial negotiations and relationship management along with deep analytical acumen. Additionally, this position involves working with multiple stakeholders. - Strategic Initiative Development: Design and implement initiatives that stimulate FMCG category growth aligned with GMV objectives. - Seller Cohort Prioritization: Identify and prioritize seller groups or cohorts for targeted initiatives that deliver the highest GMV impact. - Budget Proposal & Allocation: Recommend and allocate operational budgets to support high-impact initiatives. - Channel Strategy & Optimization: Analyze different sales channels and platforms to identify optimal channel distribution strategies across both TikTok Shop and Tokopedia platforms to accelerate category growth. - Stakeholder Management: Engage and influence cross-functional teams (including but not limited to category, product, campaign, and cross departmental teams) to ensure alignment, buy-in, and smooth execution of strategies. - Resource Management: Effectively prioritize and allocate internal resources (category headcount and financial resources) to emerging initiatives, ensuring maximum impact within constraints. - JBP Operations & Management: Lead joint business planning with key sellers, managing execution, tracking performance, and optimizing budget utilization.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications: - Proven track record in developing and executing strategic projects, consulting, or category management in fast-paced e-commerce or FMCG sectors - Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret large datasets and extract insights to support decision-making and problem-solving - Demonstrated ability to analyze complex business problems, develop actionable strategies, and prioritize high-impact initiatives - Experience working cross-functionally with operations, marketing, and commercial teams to ensure strategies are grounded in operational realities - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly present complex strategies to diverse internal and external stakeholders - Familiarity with key e-commerce platforms such as TikTok Shop, Tokopedia, Shopee, etc., and an understanding of the broader e-commerce landscape - Fluent in English and Bahasa Indonesia as the primary language of work. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with SQL, Python, Tableau, and other data analytics or visualization tools - Familiarity with major syndicated data sources (e.g., traffic analytics, market data platforms) - Strong strategic mindset with the ability to think big-picture while maintaining attention to operational detail - Highly structured, organized, and experienced in managing projects of various scopes—including planning, root cause analysis, risk mitigation, synthesis, and process optimization - Mandarin proficiency is a plus to liaise with Chinese key stakeholders.
Job Information
About TikTok
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.
We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.
Diversity & Inclusion
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.