Category Manager

Responsibilities

• Assist Category Directors with Center of Store
• Pull and analyze data that lead to meaningful and actionable insights, make thoughtful and fact-based recommendations for improvement
• Prepare data and program information for vendor meetings to ensure engagements are efficient and effective as well as assist with conducting quarterly and yearly meetings as needed
• Aid in the development and implementation of plan-o-grams and programing that is relevant to our customers, profitable and can drives category growth
• Identify opportunities to grow and drive sales throughout all categories described above as well as trending categories
• Aid in the development of process and procedure to educate the divisions, customers, and internal support teams on all the category trends, marketing program system utilizations and benefits of promotions opportunities to maximize in sales and profit
• Aid in the development of customer facing category trend analysis and strategy development
• Lead optimization of national category management program, produce monthly performance results, identify improvement opportunities, provide input on marketing tools and drive engagement on the internal dashboard
• Support existing programs to ensure accuracy of programs, relevancy of offer and compelling marketing messages
• Identify opportunities to enhance or develop new programs relevant to the convenience retail space for their current and future business needs
• Facilitate and assist the onboarding of new vendors and the continuous management of current vendors such as agreement changes, Item creations, term changes, Item transitions, billing inquires and more
• Manage and coordinate the Marketing program creations, racks order processing and tracking of all timelines related to the launch of a program or the in-season management of current programs to facilitate the needs of the divisions, fixture supplier and all logistical needs
• Aid with the management of the Core-Mark private label brands and categories to maximize sales, drive efficiency, and continue to build strategies to grow and maintain the current and future expansion of categories
• Aid with the monthly budget of national promotional programs as well as other Marketing performance to budget and prior year

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in category management, data analytics and shopper marketing
• 3-5 years of experience with assisting in content development, creation, and strategy
• Working knowledge of B2B Marketing and consumer marketing