Associate Category Merchandiser

About the role

The Assoc Category Merchandiser is responsible for the coordination and execution of strategic category plans across a smaller desk and assigned categories. Partnering with the Category Manager and Promotional Planning Manager, the role uses margin targets and competitive data to provide business insights and recommendations to adjust strategies and tactics to improve sales, simplify execution, and improve profitability for assigned categories.

Responsibilities

• Understand and apply analytical and quantitative insights to support annual category strategy development, including supporting the planning process, competitive intelligence, sales data, and syndicated data to provide actionable insights, trends, and opportunities to drive incremental sales and margin.
• Oversee the execution of assigned vendor programs, allowances, performance funds, incentives, forward buys, direct plan ship options maintaining efficiency incentives as a competitive advantage.
• Partners with the Commercial team and Promotional Planning team in their assigned region to implement sales programs and support local events.
• Responsible for the oversight and execution of category tactics, milestones, and deliverables, including deal submissions, demand planning, new item introduction, and key selling events.
• Serves as the primary point of escalation for assigned vendor/broker tactics and planning day to day, including deal submission and approval, and working with manufacturing, Buying, and Transportation to resolve OOS (out-of-stock issues) for their assigned desk.
• Maintains trade fund planning execution (passed and retained), flyer income, incentives, forward buys, truckload opportunities, and income and escalates variances to the Sr Category Merchandiser for resolution.
• Participate in cross-functional planning to support corporate and regional growth strategies.

Requirements

Job requires a solid analytical and quantitative skills, comfortable with complex financial data; experienced in category planning; solid understanding of financial methodology to determine costs, develop annual business plans and oversee daily metrics (sales, volume, inventory, costs, etc.). Strong communications skills – speaking, writing, presenting; strong planning and time management skills; high threshold for working in ambiguous, fast-paced environments – figuring it out and adapting as you go; ability to operate simultaneously and effectively in both tactical and strategic modes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree - Business, Bachelor's Degree - Finance, Bachelor's Degree - Marketing
• 0-2 years working knowledge of retail/supermarket, wholesale, and/or CPG experience.

Skills

• Solid analytical and quantitative skills
• Experienced in category planning
• Ability to present results of analysis, data models, and other projects to management concisely

Benefits

No benefits provided.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

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Company

C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC