Convenience Store Category Manager
3 weeks ago
Job Summary:
The Category Manager will oversee the end-to-end management of convenience store categories, including assortment planning, inventory management, vendor relations, and in-store visual merchandising. This role will focus on delivering financial targets, goals, and metrics for retail market categories, including convenience store alcohol, candy, beverages, and grab & go fresh offerings.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement assortment plans to drive sales, margin, and turns while managing vendor relationships.
- Negotiate with vendors to establish trading terms, reporting, KPIs, purchase plans, and exit strategies.
- Create quarterly and full-year budgets for assigned categories to deliver key performance metrics.
- Analyze weekly category performance to maximize sales, inventory flow, freight costs, turnover goals, and margin performance targets.
- Build partnerships with vendors to adapt to changing market trends and ensure new innovative products are maximized in the market.
- Negotiate and create promotional calendars to grow sales and profitability.
- Manage vendor/supplier logistics and freight management procedures, working with accounting and vendors for timely payments of invoices and processing of rebates, discounts, and RTVs.
Requirements:
- Minimum 5+ years of experience in food and retail buying, with progressive growth in buying responsibilities.
- Proven track record as a buyer with a geographically dispersed retail organization.
- Experience managing convenience store categories, including beverage, candy, and snacks.
- Post-secondary education preferred, ideally a Bachelor's degree or Retail Management Diploma.
- Experience in-store operations, planning, and analysis a benefit; working knowledge of supply chain, distribution, and logistics an asset.
- Requires experience negotiating contracts and managing third-party/outsourced relationships.
- Highly developed computer skills, including Microsoft Office, and the ability to learn new systems quickly and efficiently.
- Requires ability to travel, including trade shows and site visits across the chain.
- Requires strong technical oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
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