Job Summary:

• Participate in customer meetings alongside account managers regularly
• Offer strategic support and fact-based selling to help achieve objectives
• Identify and size customer-specific opportunity
• Analyze customer-specific pricing/promotion optimization
• Optimize customer-specific assortment 
• Be an expert category offering an “impartial” view on how to develop a category leveraging
• Best practice sharing to showcase what is working around the country
• Support the creation of a national selling deck and selling tools
• Develop and lead general training documents and sessions
• Get to know relevant sales organizations and build relationships with key stakeholders

Skills on Resume: 

• Customer Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
• Analytical Skills (Hard Skills)
• Market Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Category Management (Hard Skills)
• Communication Skills (Soft Skills)
• Strategic Thinking (Soft Skills)
• Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Continuous Learning (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Take ownership and accountability to become an expert on assigned categories
• Develop marketing plans that align with demand and sales goals
• Communicate and implement the necessary steps to achieve these goals
• Partner with multiple teams, including Web, Purchasing, Marketing, and Marketing Analytics
• Work closely with the Purchasing department to ensure inventory levels are met for marketing objectives
• Analyze and report the results of marketing plans with accurate, insightful business summaries
• Research competitors and stay on top of industry trends
• Maintain a high-quality product mix
• Analyze and make the necessary adjustments to the mix based on industry trends
• Attaining revenue and margin goals

Skills on Resume: 

• Category Expertise (Hard Skills)
• Marketing Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Inventory Management (Hard Skills)
• Data Analysis and Reporting (Hard Skills)
• Market Research (Hard Skills)
• Product Mix Optimization (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Implement Assortment Strategy decisions
• Bring recommendations and insights to the Senior Category Manager
• Build relationships with third-party vendors and internal teams to maximize category growth
• Ensure the product mix is aligned with sales and margin-driving initiatives.
• Maintain the category navigation on the website and all merchandising aspects on the site
• Responsible for site search results, making adjustments to ensure the best customer experience
• Ad hoc merchandising for any web marketing programs
• Maintain a positive and professional working relationship with peers, management
• Support resources with a constant commitment to teamwork and customer service
• Conducts self in the presence of customers and community to present a professional image

Skills on Resume: 

• Assortment Strategy Implementation (Hard Skills)
• Analytical Skills (Hard Skills)
• Vendor and Internal Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
• Sales and Margin Optimization (Hard Skills)
• Merchandising Expertise (Hard Skills)
• Website Optimization (Hard Skills)
• Ad Hoc Merchandising (Hard Skills)
• Interpersonal Skills (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Identify opportunities within the category to optimize and maximize product performance
• Responsible for analyzing sales data, assortment gaps, and market trends
• Establish and maintain strong vendor partnerships
• Responsible for negotiating against goals to improve category and company financial performance
• Develop and execute strong merchandising and business strategies
• Work collaboratively across the company
• Train and develop analysts on category management
• Support national analytics, reporting, and insights 
• Manage key internal stakeholders to ensure that business requirements are met
• Ensure compliance with all procurement policies and procedures

Skills on Resume: 

• Analytical Skills (Hard Skills)
• Negotiation Skills (Hard Skills)
• Merchandising and Business Strategy (Hard Skills)
• Vendor Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
• Collaboration and Communication (Soft Skills)
• Leadership and Training (Soft Skills)
• Data Analysis and Reporting (Hard Skills)
• Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Implement strategic category management plans to deliver security of supply, quality, service, and cost benefits
• Support the procurement function in different spending categories
• Responsible for the identification and delivery of benefits from tactical activity with suppliers
• Responsible for specification, reviews, RFPs, eAuctions, and price negotiation
• Maintain and develop strategic external relationships
• Ensure that an approved legal contract is in place for each significant supplier and added to the contract database
• Responsible for supplier relationship management
• Lead supplier relationship management for strategic suppliers within a category
• Define KPIs and targets
• Become a subject matter expert in the packaging area

Skills on Resume: 

• Category Management (Hard Skills)
• Procurement Expertise (Hard Skills)
• Tactical Supplier Management (Hard Skills)
• Negotiation Skills (Hard Skills)
• Relationship Building (Soft Skills)
• Contract Management (Hard Skills)
• Supplier Relationship Management (Hard Skills)
• Performance Measurement (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Develop long-term strategic plans for the packaging category
• Support current and future company business needs
• Drive communication/reporting of strategy to keep internal clients informed of progress and benefits
• Identify and initiate focused projects
• Manage a pipeline of projects within selected segments to ensure results meet targets
• Engage strategic and tactical sourcing teams
• Drive the execution of projects in support of category strategies
• Provide commodity knowledge to internal clients on spend data, supply base, industry trends, benchmarking, and best practices
• Ensures the delivery of the service and commercial outcomes for local and/or regional projects and initiatives
• Supports the Procurement Category Manager in the strategy and execution of global, more complex, and high-value initiatives

Skills on Resume: 

• Long-term Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
• Business Acumen (Hard Skills)
• Communication Skills (Soft Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)
• Execution Excellence (Hard Skills)
• Commodity Knowledge (Hard Skills)
• Outcome Orientation (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Leads projects and initiatives with a contract value
• Assists the Procurement Category Manager with more complex, higher value, and/or global initiatives
• Adapts to change and demonstrates commitment and effort in procurement activities
• Stays informed and shares best practices across categories, geographies, and teams
• Mentors less senior team members
• Leads the creation and establishment of a sourcing process
• Responsible for planning, defining business needs, assessing the supply market
• Responsible for defining strategy, execution, supplier selection, and contracting
• Analyze and report on key performance metrics for marketing campaigns and activities
• Stay up to date on industry trends and late-breaking news for content and campaign ideas

Skills on Resume: 

• Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Procurement Expertise (Hard Skills)
• Adaptability (Soft Skills)
• Knowledge Sharing (Soft Skills)
• Mentorship (Soft Skills)
• Sourcing Process Development (Hard Skills)
• Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)
• Data Analysis and Reporting (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Define, implement, and execute the business development/growth strategy for the category
• Hire, train, and manage a team of Key Account Managers to help grow and manage a portfolio of suppliers
• Develop online merchandising and promotion proposals to achieve sales targets
• Liaising with internal teams to drive strategy
• Responsible for planning, merchandising, marketing, supply chain team, legal, finance, etc.
• Identify, establish, and grow other local and regional strategic partnership
• Retain and optimize key account relationships to drive overall sales volumes
• Ensuring pricing competitiveness, assortment, and stock availability of key accounts within the category
• Develop assortment plans that support the overall strategy of the category in terms of SKUs and suppliers
• Using data-driven insights of market data, product trends, and customer shopping trends

Skills on Resume: 

• Business Development Strategy (Hard Skills)
• Team Leadership and Management (Soft Skills)
• Online Merchandising and Promotion (Hard Skills)
• Cross-functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Partnership Development (Soft Skills)
• Key Account Management (Soft Skills)
• Assortment Planning and Optimization (Hard Skills)
• Data-driven Decision Making (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Assist in developing marketing strategies for company subsidiaries, divisions, and product lines
• Engage customers and drive sales
• Collaborate with scientific staff, graphic designers, and marketing team
• Develop engaging content across multiple marketing channels
• Plan and create long-form scientific content to be used in marketing campaigns
• Manage the planning and prioritization of new projects
• Communicating updates and deadlines to project stakeholders
• Assist in maintaining a consistent corporate brand across all company divisions and guide branding/messaging
• Develop supporting marketing materials for business development managers and affiliates
• Work closely with the digital marketing coordinator, scientific content creator, and events coordinator
• Ensure marketing campaigns are aligned and integrated

Skills on Resume: 

• Marketing Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
• Sales and Customer Engagement (Soft Skills)
• Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
• Content Development (Hard Skills)
• Scientific Content Creation (Hard Skills)
• Project Management (Hard Skills)
• Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
• Brand Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Create and maintain a master vendor program matrix
• Identify and create missing non-common vendor templates
• Own vendor portal process and maintain the data warehouse
• Updating all item descriptions for consistency 
• Working with the Category Management team to monitor market conditions
• Help to develop effective promotions across all sales channels
• Own the gathering of ecom digital assets and other ecom vendor-related needs
• Loading product information on Sharepoint for sales communications
• Update discontinued/superseded items list
• Update the new items list

Skills on Resume: 

• Vendor Management (Hard Skills)
• Data Management (Hard Skills)
• Content Management (Hard Skills)
• Market Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Promotional Strategy (Hard Skills)
• E-commerce Operations (Hard Skills)
• SharePoint Proficiency (Hard Skills)
• Inventory Management (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Develop and lead a long-term strategic vision for allotted categories and 3rd Party marketplace business
• Sourcing new vendors and arranging vendor partnerships
• Working to improve the profitability and lead times of current vendors.
• Analyzing current business trends
• Carrying out decisions based on the outcome of that analysis
• Establishing and maintaining vendor partnerships
• Executing strategies relative to product costs, pricing, terms, and shipping/return issues
• Manage PandL and ensure performance and financial goals are met
• Setting and maintaining retail pricing strategies and SKU rationale exercises
• Creating inventory plans to ensure a timely flow of goods

Skills on Resume: 

• Strategic Visioning (Soft Skills)
• Vendor Sourcing and Partnerships (Hard Skills)
• Vendor Management and Improvement (Hard Skills)
• Business Trend Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Decision Making (Soft Skills)
• Partnership Establishment and Maintenance (Soft Skills)
• Financial Management (P&L) (Hard Skills)
• Retail Pricing and Inventory Planning (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Forecasting future sales and inventory needs
• Establishing a buying plan to attain sales and margin goals
• Determining and updating pricing to increase sales and profitability
• Work closely with the site development team in related categories.
• Increase and improve web traffic online and offline through search engine marketing and all other marketing efforts
• Provide direction to the creative team for imaging and copywriting
• Ensure product presentation achieves the desired results
• Supports Category Management team in the preparation for and engagement in vendor meetings
• Assist in the preparation of internal presentations and senior management monthly reporting
• Assist in fielding product-related questions from the Sales team

Skills on Resume: 

• Sales Forecasting (Hard Skills)
• Buying Planning (Hard Skills)
• Pricing Strategy (Hard Skills)
• Collaboration with Site Development Team (Soft Skills)
• Marketing Expertise (Hard Skills)
• Creative Direction (Soft Skills)
• Visual Merchandising (Hard Skills)
• Vendor Relations Support (Soft Skills)

Job Summary:

• Drive category volume growth with promotions and plans to achieve the target including unfolding brand and category strategy
• Coordinate Marketing, Finance, and market status to deliver accurate sales forecasts
• Communicate with Demand Planning to ensure a sufficient supply of products
• Promote planning and tracking and taking action to improve efficiency
• Apply data management to provide business analysis and insights reports
• Identify potential opportunities in category growth
• Consolidate MKT/sales activities for both operator and traders
• Consolidates market input from SandOP with general business software
• Establish and maintain relationships with external stakeholders

Skills on Resume: 

• Category Management and Strategy (Hard Skills)
• Cross-Functional Coordination (Soft Skills)
• Supply Chain Management (Hard Skills)
• Planning and Efficiency Improvement (Soft Skills)
• Data Analysis and Reporting (Hard Skills)
• Market Insights and Opportunity Identification (Hard Skills)
• Integration of Marketing and Sales Activities (Soft Skills)
• Relationship Management (Soft Skills)