Category Manager - Beverage

Position Responsibilities

• Maintain optimal inventory levels to meet customers’ needs.
• Monitor over-committed and urgent items.
• Increase inventory turns upon reaching full truckloads.
• Resolve slow moving and dead inventory by selling it or billing customer for it.
• Keep product knowledge up to date by attending and participating in special events.
• Be responsible for knowing your products and for product knowledge training for customers.
• Review over-committed, urgent items, buyer’s outs, stock adjustments, receiving discrepancies, and sales below cost reports.
• Negotiate buy brackets, inbound freight rates, backhaul dollars, cash discounts, extended terms, and earned income.
• Ensure costing and pricing accuracy, with special attention to changes, discrepancies, and customer audits.
• Process returns to vendors including entering vendor bill backs before merchandise leaves our buildings.
• Assist accounting with invoicing customers for storage and finance charges on excess inventory.
• Set up vendor bill backs with Vice President of Purchasing.
• Review monthly reports.
• Work with Accounts Payable to ensure that vendor bill backs are promptly billed and deducted.
• Review vendor accounts receivable list.
• Review all customer credit memos and bill back to manufacturers.
• Work with Accounts Payable to negotiate, approve, and resolve all billing vs. receiving discrepancies, vendor bill back issues, lost cash discount negotiations, etc.
• Maximize days accounts payable purchases outstanding.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED or Equivalent
• Experience: 5-7 Years related experience
• Supervisory or Management Experience: 6 months - 1 year