Assistant Category Manager
On-siteElizabethtown, Kentucky, United States or Elizabethtown, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Execute planogram resets, shelf sets, and product placement strategies across all categories while maintaining accurate inventory data. Develop and track promotional programs, including displays and loyalty-driven initiatives, then compile performance data for analysis. Support category reviews by entering data, managing vendor files, and participating in vendor meetings. Collaborate with the Category Manager to build foundational skills in category management, merchandising, and consumer behavior. Work in an office environment with occasional field visits, lifting up to 30 lbs. This role offers advancement opportunities within a family-owned organization serving over 1,000 team members.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, Marketing, or a related field
- Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in category management, merchandising, or product management
- Experience in retail or convenience store environments
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Proven ability to collaborate across teams and manage relationships
- Comfortable assessing data and then recommending action
- Proficient in category management software, retail analytics tools, and Microsoft Office Suite
- Excellent business intelligence skills
- Insatiable curiosity
- Ability to work independently in a fast-moving environment
- Strong understanding of customer needs and preferences in center store categories
- Office environment
- Field visits
- Frequently required to sit
- Frequently required to hear
- Use hands to type data
- Operate business equipment
- Dial the telephone
- Regularly required to talk
- Regularly required to hear
- Frequently required to stand
- Frequently required to walk
- Frequently required to sit
- Lift up to 30 lbs
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree
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