Category Manager

Overview

If you're passionate about strategy, innovation, and driving results, join Casey's Merchandising team and help build category plans that fuel growth across our business.


As a Category Manager , Alcoholic Beverages, you'll have end-to-end ownership of your category's performance, leading strategy, assortment, pricing, promotions, and supplier partnerships to deliver a best-in-class guest experience. You'll leverage consumer insights, market trends, and data-driven decision making to grow sales, increase profitability, and create a differentiated offering across Casey's stores.


What You'll Do:

• Develop and execute category strategies that align with guest needs, industry trends, and business objectives.
• Own category financial performance, including P&L management, forecasting, and annual planning.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with key suppliers, leading negotiations to secure favorable costs, terms, and support programs.
• Curate product assortments and pricing strategies using consumer insights, competitive analysis, syndicated data, and business performance metrics.
• Lead promotional planning and execution to drive guest traffic, sales growth, and profitability.
• Regularly visit Casey's stores and competitor locations to identify opportunities, validate strategies, and stay connected to the guest experience.
• Optimize cost of goods, supplier funding, and category economics by leveraging Casey's scale and strategic partnerships.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations, Marketing, Supply Chain, Store Development, and other key business partners to bring category strategies to life.
• Translate market trends and consumer insights into actionable recommendations that fuel category growth.

What you can expect when you join the Casey's Team:

• A transformative culture putting service first and taking pride in caring for our guests, our communities, and each other.
• Opportunities to use cutting edge technologies and enterprise-wide collaboration to enable our strategy and drive world class service.
• We're here for families! Great benefits including choices in medical plans, dental, vision, life insurance, charitable giving programs, parental leave and an onsite Child Development Center.
• Competitive pay, 401k company match up to 6%, vacation & sick time, paid holidays, volunteer time, and an onsite cafeteria.
• Dress for your day dress code, jeans are welcomed!
• The opportunity to work for a big company that has not lost our small company feel. Our senior leadership team is engaged, involved and accessible!
• What are you waiting for? Come be a part of a company that is growing, transforming and is here for good!

Compensation:


Starting pay range: $88,700 - $116,400. Actual pay may vary based on Casey's assessment of the candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, and qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include local prevailing wages and internal equity. This position is eligible for an annual cash bonus based on company performance. Our full salary range for this role does extend beyond the hiring range listed, allowing team members the opportunity to continue to grow within the company.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Merchandising, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in category management, merchandising, buying, retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), or a related field.
• Strong understanding of category management principles, merchandising strategies, pricing, promotions, and consumer behavior.
• Proven ability to manage financial performance, analyze results, identify opportunities, and drive meaningful business outcomes.
• Experience negotiating with suppliers and managing strategic vendor relationships.
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical, planning, and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge of the convenience retail, grocery, beverage, or foodservice industry is preferred.
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively across a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.