Category Manager, Accesories

5 hours ago

Toronto, Canada Fire & Flower Full time

**About Us**:
Fire & Flower is a leading, technology-powered, adult-use cannabis retailer with more than 70 corporate-owned stores in its network. The Company leverages its wholly owned technology development subsidiary, Hifyre Inc., to continually advance its proprietary retail operations model.

Title
Category Manager - Accessories
Reports To
Director, Merchandising
Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Category Manager to lead our cannabis accessories business. This role carries out the organization’s Merchandising strategy for the accessories category in Fire & Flower and Friendly Stranger retail cannabis shops across Canada. This role is responsible for ensuring the best product, price & placement in the competitive retail cannabis space, including promotional planning, forecasting, assortment planning, competitive analysis and delivering to KPI targets.
Additionally, this position will be a part of a best-in-class Merchandising team known for pioneering the retail cannabis space in Canada and contribute to other merchandising-related tasks as needed.
Competencies and Requirements
- Proven success working collaboratively, both internally and externally
- Proven success in exceeding KPI targets in retail category management
- Strong analytical, process & organizational skills
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically and tactically
- An eye for upcoming consumer trends and a proven ability to meet those trends.
- A creative mindset that can push product development & launch new items with cross channel marketing support.
- Effective negotiation skills
- Demonstrated ability to innovate & operate with varying levels of uncertainty
- Passionate & enthusiastic about retail
- Knowledge of cannabis & accessory products is an asset

Essential

**Responsibilities**:

- Assortment planning for cannabis accessories including pricing & promotion
- Design assortment and pricing strategy by province, banner and category including sales by category
- Determine appropriate sku count by category / sub-category and store type (MSC)
- Manage vendor relationships
- Identify and leverage market and consumer trends
- Ensure relevant and compelling assortments to service our customers
- Suggest and influence inventory targets by category, province and shop
- Competitive analysis
- Incorporate shop feedback and communicate with Operations
- Forecasting and forecast accuracy
- Communicate regularly to relevant cross-functional departments

Education, Training and Experience
- University degree
- At least 2-4 years of relevant experience in retail category management
- Strong Microsoft Excel Skills. Proficient with PowerPoint and Word.
- Experience in cannabis or cannabis accessories considered an asset
- Clean Criminal Record
- Working fully remote*

Fire & Flower values the diversity of the people it hires and serves. Inclusion to us means fostering a workplace in which individual differences are recognized, appreciated, respected, and responded to in ways that fully develop and utilize each person’s talents and strengths.

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