Assistant category manager job description

Pet Food Express is looking for Assistant Category Manager (ACM) to join our Merchandising Department. Reporting to the Merchandising Operations Manager, the person chosen for this junior level role will gain career-making experience in Category Management and build a strong network of industry contacts. The ideal candidate is a confident, independent self-starter with competitive drive, someone who takes initiative, has a high sense of urgency, and the ability to make decisions and take responsibility for them. The ACM must be flexible, solution and idea driven with the ability to react and adjust quickly to changing conditions. If this description sounds like you, apply today!
What you'll do:

* Provide assistance to Category Managers. Prepare Product to Market documentation, including item setup information and input; creating and vetting product data, preparing and analyzing needed reports.
* Vendor management tasks such as meeting preparation and planning; you'll work with Category Managers to meet specific vendor meeting goals; create agendas, custom reports and other documentation needed for vendor meetings
* Communicate regularly, build and maintain strong relationships with vendors through use of email, video conferencing and phone conversations to problem solve, verify inventory, collect funds, etc.
* Plan, coordinate, communicate and execute planogram resets for assigned categories as needed. Jointly own project execution and successfully navigate roadblocks
* Work closely with Category Manager to ensure all risk associated with projects and timelines are known and addressed and issues/concerns are escalated to CM in a timely manner
* Assist with inventory management, including working to transfer product into and out of the planogram room
* Facilitate, promote and leverage collaboration across all levels of PFE (from stores to executives) and between PFE and vendors to achieve department and company goals

What you'll bring:

* A passion for Pet Products - you truly understand their features, benefits and how each product can help or hinder PFE's category and company goals
* Results-oriented thinking; the ACM understands the importance of continual progress towards the general goal and that a project must remain on track.
* A proactive, diligent approach and focus to achieve highly accurate work, especially when working on item and project management
* A strong sense of urgency with an intuitive ability to prioritize and understand and anticipate your Category Manager's needs when clear direction has not been provided
* A collaborative approach with a strong understanding of team cohesion, dynamics and interpersonal relations
* Strong interpersonal, active listening and communication skills with the ability communicate clearly and effectively with employees, management and vendors
* Self-motivation and the ability to respond positively and proactively to challenges and pressure; you have confidence in your ability to handle novel problems and work effectively with people
* Analytic skills with the ability to think objectively and interpret meaningful themes from quantitative and qualitative data
* A knack for influencing & negotiation; you have the ability to present ideas and directions that lead others to action
* Natural problem-solving and decision making capabilities and a positive mindset; you're able to use rigorous logic and methods to effectively solve problems and take action that aligns with department and company vision and goals
* High degree of technical ability to work with software applications, especially related to Excel including the development of tables, spread sheets, formulas, custom reporting, interfaces, and data transfer
* Outstanding organizational skills, the ability to manage multiple projects and prioritize work with a high sense of urgency, attention to detail and maintain flexibility in a fast-paced work environment

What you'll love:

* Management that cares about your professional development
* Competitive compensation including vacation time, paid holidays and sick time.
* A generous employee discount
* Health insurance, 401k match, profit sharing, and other great benefits-even pet insurance!
* Dog-friendly office with on-site dog park

About the Company

We're Pet food Express, and we're transforming our customers' relationships with their pets. How? With exactly right products, helpful services, and expert advice for even the toughest pet problems. Since 1986, our commitment to purpose over profits has driven our decades-long history of continuously strong growth. We do what's right for our customers and their pets. Everything else follows. Sound like the right fit? We'd love to hear from you.

This job summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of work associates/leaders assigned to this job perform. It is not intended to include all duties and responsibilities.

Pet Food Express is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against employees or applicants based on race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristics protected by applicable law. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Pet Food Express is a place where everyone can learn and grow. However you identify and whatever your background, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day.

CVS Health has an exciting opportunity for an innovative Assistant Category Manager, General Merchandise Growth to join a Fortune 4 Healthcare Company. As an Assistant Category Manager, you will work out of CVS Heath's Merchandising department in Woonsocket, RI and will be responsible for fully managing assigned merchandise categories and supporting the respective P&L. You will have a full scope of responsibility for attaining budgeted sales, gross margin, and building market share within our business.

As an Assistant Category Manager, General Merchandise Growth, you'll also have the opportunity to be a team player to deliver sales and margin goals in assigned categories by attaining market share to include but not limited to growth, sales, contribution margin, inventory turns and GMROII and managing all profit and loss information for the category. You will also be involved in vendor management to include: collaborating, interviewing, and negotiating extensively with manufacturers and vendors to ensure product placement and product strategy that drives sales and profitability. In this role you will be developing and implementing category plans (i.e., plan optimal SKU mix; Extracare loyalty program; weekly, seasonal, annual promotional programs) for merchandising programs from 1 to 3 years that reflect deepl knowledge of our businesses, customers and clients. This role will require leveraging all available data sources to continually analyze business opportunities. You will continually sustain a strong understanding of current competition as well as search out new competitive opportunities. The Assistant Category Manager will initiate and execute strategic promotional strategies and marketing plans by collaborating internally with a team of CVS professionals (e.g. Inventory, Pricing, Promotion, Finance, Store Brands, Store Design and Store Operations). This role may allow the opportunity to oversee other colleagues such as a Merchandising Analyst.
Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

Minimum: 60,300

Maximum: 126,600

Please keep in mind that this range represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual salary offer will take into account a wide range of factors, including location.

Required Qualifications

3+ years of experience developing and executing plans, review data, consumer insights and identify business opportunities to deliver expected financial and share results

3 + years of experience collaborating with cross functional team members, internally and with suppliers

3+ years of experience developing cohesive category strategies to deliver on both short-term and long term goals and adapts change based on consumer/market dynamics.

COVID Requirements

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

CVS Health requires certain colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, religious belief, or other legally recognized reasons that prevents them from being vaccinated.

You are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status or apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment. Please note that in some states and roles, you may be required to provide proof of full vaccination or an approved reasonable accommodation before you can begin to actively work.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in building and executing Strategic Growth Plans

Experience managing a retail Profit and Loss (P&L)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Merchandising or related field.

Master's Degree is preferred

Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint

Business Overview

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand - with heart at its center - our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

**This is Energizer Holdings, Inc.**

Energizer Holdings responsibly creates products to make lives easier and more enjoyable. To do this, we lean into our culture as an organization - we win together, while serving each other, with a willingness to act boldly, all while doing right. Our colleagues hail from all backgrounds, nationalities and walks of life, but our shared mission and purpose make us one team. Because we're a global organization, you will always have opportunities to learn, grow and develop in your career. We support flexible working arrangements wherever possible.

**Position Summary**

The Assistant Category Development Manager provides support on the Sam's Club account, reporting category trends to Energizer's retail partners as well fulfilling internal reporting needs. This role has responsibility for analyzing and identifying key trends in each segment of business where Energizer competes: Batteries, Lighting Products, and Auto Care. This position will also lead the development and process of customer category line reviews and be the expert in the customer's category as well as the key strategic leader to assist with the development of their strategies.

**Responsibilities**

+ Act as the category leader with customer to help develop category strategy based on insights and market trends

+ Develop and deliver customer presentations

+ Facilitate internal and external planning processes

+ Support the customer category line review process

+ Provide customer category insights at broader cross-functional team meetings

+ Design, develop and maximize in-store assortment and planograms

+ Conduct competitive analysis that identifies competitor strategies, strengths and weaknesses

+ Responsible for the Identification and tracking of key trends

+ Conduct ad hoc reporting and analysis as required

+ Complete ad tracking for channel/ retailers

+ May perform other duties as assigned

**What we are looking for**

+ BA/BS required; Marketing/Business Administration preferred

+ Proven ability to work effectively with teams, strong communication and interpersonal skills including presentation and relationship building is essential

+ 2-3 years category management, sales experience, or relevant job experience

+ Outstanding written & verbal communication skills

+ Experience in developing & delivering compelling selling stories / presentations

+ Technically skilled with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI and SharePoint is preferred

**Come join us!**

Energizer is an equal opportunity employer, and we prohibit discrimination based on age, color, disability, marital or parental status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Work Environment

+ Located in Bentonville, AR