SR. Category Manager

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Foster relationships with vendors to achieve better pricing and quality of services
• Generate and place purchase orders to ensure product availability meets demand
• Conduct market research and suggest appropriate pricing and promotional activities
• Continuously conduct market research such as reading trade magazines, attending trade shows, and shopping competitors in order to stay innovative within the C-Store Industry.
• Analyze data or insights to determine industry and consumer trends
• Determine competitive pricing and promotional activities of a product category
• Analyze and determine the best course of action to rectify low sales (Discontinue, Substitute, or Replace)
• Managing the optimal portfolio of products, identifying gaps, and constant cleansing via SKU rationalization, to create value for our retail members
• Facilitate quarterly meetings with vendors to review their products success
• Creating marketing strategies for new product and executing the project from concept to launch
• Review and analyze daily reports including, but not limited to out-of-stock, price increases, and pending PO s
• Provide tactical level of operational support to

Warehouse Department Heads Experience and Skills:

• 5 years Procurement experience
• Bachelor s degree in business, Marketing, or a related field
• Strong Category Management skills
• Experience with data analysis and highly developed analytical skills
• Contract negotiation skills
• Ability to collaborate with internal departments and external customers/clients to ensure the achievement of business objectives
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills with ability to multitask and prioritize
• Experience with

Microsoft Office and SAP Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor s Degree, or equivalent work experience, knowledge, skills