Senior Category Manager Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Senior Category Manager to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Drive promotional planning by season and year for key accounts;
- Analyze and evaluate pre and post-promotion analyses for retailer, quantifying impact to brand and category;
- manage inventories accordingly;
- maintain a no-gap supply chain with on time delivery as required;
- Deliver Daily/Weekly/Monthly analytics reports showing health of business;
- Understand day to day impact of the POS to facilitate decision making;
- Be the go-to resource for your categories at corporate and within the sales field;
- identify and cultivate alternative suppliers on a global scale;
- Collaborate with sales directors to drive retailer meetings;
- Manage, Coach, and Mentor a team of analysts partnering with the SharkNinja sales organization;
- Bring structure and process to think broadly on scaling projects with both retailers;
- keep up with market news and global events that affect pricing and supply;
- Develop strategic relationships with the Sales Directors, Operation Managers, and VP’s of Sales as well as Finance and Marketing;
- Identify, measure, and quantify marketplace/ retailer trends, issues and opportunities;
- demonstrate excellent knowledge of Key Cost Drivers for all items purchased and hold vendors accountable.
Requirements:
- high volume / high spend purchasing;
- direct and indirect purchasing experience including food grade (which is a must);
- excellent at researching pricing looking for both great pricing and quality, a great negotiator;
- experienced in a team setting;
- have outstanding communication skills;
- high energy, organized, detail oriented and able to prioritize with efficiency.