Multicultural Foods Category Manager

At Coborn's, Inc., we believe our stores should reflect the communities we serve. As our Multicultural Foods Category Manager, you'll have an exciting opportunity to shape how we connect with our increasingly diverse guests by bringing authentic, culturally relevant products, brands, and experiences to our stores.

In this role, you'll combine category management, merchandising strategy, product sourcing, supplier development, and community insights to build assortments that celebrate diverse food cultures and meet the evolving needs of our guests while driving sales, profitability, market share, and category growth.

You'll serve as a key subject matter expert in multicultural foods merchandising—identifying emerging consumer trends, developing relationships with established and emerging brands, partnering with diverse-owned businesses, and engaging with communities to better understand the products, traditions, and food experiences that matter most to our guests.

If you're passionate about retail, food, culture, community, and discovering products that bring people together, this is an opportunity to make a visible impact across our employee-owned organization.

What You'll Do
Lead Multicultural Category Strategy:

Develop and execute category and merchandising strategies that drive sales, profitability, market share, and guest satisfaction while responding to evolving consumer trends and the diverse needs of our communities.

Build Culturally Relevant Assortments:

Create authentic, culturally relevant assortments that reflect the diverse food traditions, preferences, and lifestyles of our guests. Use guest insights, demographics, market trends, competitive intelligence, and community feedback to identify assortment gaps and growth opportunities.

Source Products & Develop Suppliers:

Identify and build partnerships with established multicultural brands, emerging suppliers, local businesses, and diverse-owned businesses. Lead negotiations, strengthen supplier relationships, and manage supplier performance to support category growth and product authenticity.

Drive Category Performance:

Own financial plans and key performance indicators, including sales, margin, inventory, and shrink, using data and insights to continuously improve category results.

Shape Pricing & Promotions:

Partner with Pricing, Marketing, and Operations to develop competitive pricing, promotional strategies, and culturally relevant programs that resonate with guests and strengthen engagement.

Bring Strategies to Life:

Collaborate with Space Management, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing, and store leadership to execute assortments, resets, product launches, seasonal programs, and localized merchandising strategies that reflect the communities we serve.

Connect With Our Communities:

Build relationships with community leaders, organizations, guests, and local partners to understand evolving food preferences, cultural traditions, and unmet needs. Use these insights to identify new products, strengthen community connections, and create a more relevant and inclusive shopping experience.

Lead & Influence:

Serve as a multicultural foods merchandising and category subject matter expert, sharing strategies, market insights, and best practices across the organization while coaching and developing assigned team members.

What's In It For Me?
Our remarkable employees are at the heart of everything we do. At Coborn's, we're committed to creating a supportive and rewarding workplace—one that offers a vibrant, team-oriented environment, ongoing career growth, and meaningful benefits. As an employee-owned company, we believe in investing in our people and their futures.

We're proud to offer a variety of benefits to both our full-time and part-time employees, including:

Medical & Dental insurance with Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options

Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) – yes, we're employee-owned! Our team members benefit from the success of the company through this company-sponsored benefit!

401(k) plan options – we also match up to 20% of the first 5% contributed

Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO/Vacation)

10% employee discount on grocery items, with additional franchise-specific discounts available at company-owned Ace Hardware, Caribou Coffee, Erbert and Gerbert's, and Pet Supplies Plus locations.

Additional Voluntary Benefits – such as vision, accident and critical illness insurances

Adoption Reimbursement, Paid Family Caregiver Leave, as well as company-sponsored Term Life Insurance

Get Paid Daily with DailyPay – for employees who would like access to their pay before payday, we offer this great benefit!

Paid Military Leave

Employee recognition programs with monetary rewards, including in-store vouchers, years of service, and employee of the month

Employee Health & Wellness Programs, Challenges and Resources – to assist our team members in living a life of wellbeing!

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – unlimited phone access to legal, financial, and work-life services and up to five free in-person counseling sessions, per situation/issue, per year

Access to a national discount marketplace for travel, electronics, auto/home insurance, entertainment and more!

Tools, resources and opportunities for career growth and development

Education benefits including tuition discount and scholarship programs

Qualifications
Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in Business, Merchandising, Marketing, Supply Chain, Retail Management, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

Five or more years of progressive experience in category management, merchandising, buying, sourcing, retail operations, or a related field. Experience within grocery, food retail, consumer products, or a multi-location retail environment is preferred.

Demonstrated experience developing and executing category strategies, including assortment, pricing, promotions, and/or product sourcing.

Experience leveraging consumer, sales, market, competitive, and demographic insights to identify opportunities and support strategic business decisions.

Proven experience building supplier relationships and negotiating product costs, terms, promotional support, and other business agreements.

We believe that building a team of people with different backgrounds, beliefs, experiences and perspectives inspires fresh thinking and opens us up to new possibilities. We are an EEO/AA Employer - All qualified individuals, including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities, are encouraged to apply.

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