Category Specialist
6 months ago
**Some of what you will do**
As the Category Specialist - Workspaces, you will be accountable to meet financial sales and gross margin targets. Working collaboratively with the Category Manager, you will assist in sourcing and building assortments, developing promotions, setting pricing, and delivering best-in-class presentation to drive sustained growth and capture market share. This role will partner closely with across our Merchandise, Strategy, Planning and Allocation teams. Each day will be fast-paced, challenging, rewarding and meaningful.
**Specifically, you will**:
- Develop channel-relevant assortments leveraging solid analytics, industry trends and vendor/brand insights.
- Proactively seek out category insights from vendors and external sources of information
- Onboard and set up new SKUs by collecting all required content from vendor partners and following established set-up guidelines
- Set and maintain pricing, ensuring it is in line with pricing policies and strategies for the category.
- Work collaboratively with members of the marketing and web operations teams to plan marketing based on activity calendar
- Develop and help negotiate funding for promotions to drive sales and margin
- Provide support to any customer-facing associates as needed regarding special orders, damages, RTV’s and general category/vendor/brand inquiries, responding to all inquiries in a timely manner.
- Work closely on a day-to-day basis to build and maintain strong partnerships with our vendors.
**Some of what you need**
- Minimum of 1-3 years of previous retail management, purchasing or merchandising experience.
- Post secondary diploma with a focus on retail management, merchandising and purchasing or equivalent experience.
- Negotiation skills
- Required to commit necessary time to fluctuating priorities and meet the demands of the position.
- Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint (+Access recommended)
- Curious
- Passionate
- Problem solver
**Some of what you will get**:
- Associate discount
- Health and Dental benefits
- RRSP/DPSP
- Performance bonuses
- Learning & Development programs
- And more...
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