Manager, Category Management - Private Brands

What You’ll Do

• Manage a high growth business across several categories of Private Brands.
• Help launch new customer-led products and innovation with urgency.
• Develop and execute sound strategies across marketing, product, and supply chain to support this growth while managing inventory/financial risk for Chewy.
• Own the P&L and drive toward sales and profit targets on a weekly/monthly/quarterly basis.
• Strong ability to manage multiple timelines, collaborate productively across cross-functional teams with a focus on long-term growth and scale.
• Interject new insights and ideas for improving customer experience and improving financial outcomes while holding true to Chewy Private Brand fundamentals.
• Strong, proven leadership skills that focus on clear prioritization, ability to coach and develop others.

What You'll Need

• A minimum of 8+ years in category management, account management, product management, financial analysis, or marketing in a retail organization.
• A minimum of 8+ years negotiation experience.
• Manager experience of a small team.
• Strong in Excel; SQL a bonus.
• A bachelor’s degree (master’s degree preferred).
• An accomplished range of skill from high-level strategic thinking to working with external partners.
• Demonstrated excellent business judgment with strong written and oral communication skills.
• The ability to use both formal and informal influencing skills across Chewy’s cross-matrix organization is critical to success in this role.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is $129,500 - $207,000.00. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k and a new hire and annual equity grant.

Benefits

• We offer different types of insurance and benefits, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident.
• We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.
• Exempt salary team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval.
• Team members will receive six paid holidays per year.
• Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.

About the Role

Our Opportunity: Chewy is hiring a Manager, Category Management for our Merchandising team. The successful candidate will be a self-starter and will focus on accelerating growth in Private Brands.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8+ years in category management, account management, product management, financial analysis and/or marketing in a retail organization.
• Minimum of 8+ years negotiation experience.
• Manager experience of a small team.
• Strong in Excel; SQL a bonus.
• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree preferred).
• Demonstrated excellent business judgment with strong written and oral communication skills.
• The ability to use both formal and informal influencing skills across Chewy’s cross-matrix organization is critical to success in this role.