SENIOR CATEGORY MANAGER SKILLS, EXPERIENCE, AND JOB REQUIREMENTS

The Senior Category Manager excels in executing the media strategy, achieving significant value and cost savings through robust media partnerships. This role requires extensive experience in marketing performance, agency management, and commercial excellence, underpinned by a detailed understanding of marketing operations and their supporting processes. The manager is also equipped with strong negotiation skills and commercial acumen for internal dealings, and demonstrates exceptional stakeholder management capabilities across all organizational levels, ensuring seamless communication and effective leadership in complex project scenarios.

Essential Hard and Soft Skills for a Standout Senior Category Manager Resume
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Supplier Relationship Management
  • Contract Negotiation
  • Spend Analysis
  • Market Analysis
  • Procurement Software Proficiency
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Data Analytics
  • Budgeting
  • Risk Management
  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Decision-Making
  • Problem Solving
  • Adaptability
  • Teamwork
  • Negotiation
  • Influencing
  • Project Management
  • Strategic Thinking

Summary of Senior Category Manager Knowledge and Qualifications on Resume

1. BA in Supply Chain Management with 7 years of Experience

  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Strong analytical mindset and data-driven approach
  • Demonstrated experience working with complex data to develop robust commercial recommendations
  • Demonstrated success in building business relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Advanced level Excel and PowerPoint expertise
  • Demonstrated ability to work within a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment
  • Innovative problem-solving skills, dissecting and determining the root causes of problems and implementing solutions
  • Experience in an eCommerce or management consulting environment
  • A track record of success in developing relationships with stakeholders, working collaboratively and negotiating to drive multi-departmental projects

2. BA in Business Administration with 9 years of Experience

  • Marketing and business management experience in consumer product space (brands and private label/store brands combination)
  • Have financial acumen including detailed experience with P&Ls
  • Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills
  • Project management/coordination working experience
  • Understanding of new item/new product development
  • Solid knowledge of consumer research, including quantitative and qualitative
  • Experience within a matrix organizational structure
  • Working experience in CPG and /or private label.
  • Be an independent contributor with a hands-on style and attention to detail as well as an avid learner and self-starter
  • The ability to manage cross-functional teams to bring products to market
  • Experience working on/growing a consumer brand
  • Retailer experience in consumer packaged goods (marketing, sales, product development)

3. BA in Economics with 6 years of Experience

  • Proven experience in exceptional sales/budget performance within a B2C or B2B environment (retail or e-commerce)
  • Specific experience in the Sporting Goods and Apparel categories.
  • Experience in leading, coaching and motivating teams
  • A strategic problem solver, with a strong track record of driving commercial results through Business Development and Acquisition
  • Outstanding negotiation skills to source critical inventory and establish joint commercial targets
  • A track record of building effective trading relationships with clients/suppliers/brands to drive exceptional advocacy and a joint focus on commercial outcomes
  • Strong trading foresight and very comfortable with generating insights from data. 
  • Comfortable to operate in a fast-paced trading environment and skilled at managing peak trading periods
  • Excellent organizational, communication and problem-solving skills
  • The ability to operate with agility

4. BA in Marketing with 8 years of Experience

  • Experience in Contract Development and Management, Supplier Relationship Management, and Negotiation Techniques
  • Experience with Procurement ERP systems (such as PeopleSoft)
  • Strong sourcing analytical skills and tools
  • Must have proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint
  • The ability to analyze and document relevant business processes.
  • Ability to demonstrate an end-to-end knowledge of Supply Chain processes
  • The ability to understand financial statement
  • An understanding of the impact of implementing new price agreements
  • Ability to run sourcing projects focused on the acquisition of goods and services, and negotiate pricing and related business terms from concept to contract.

5. BA in Finance with 9 years of Experience

  • Demonstrate excellence in the ability to deliver the Group media strategy including value and cost savings through our media partnership
  • Proven strong stakeholder management throughout all levels of an organization
  • Significant experience in Marketing Performance, Agency Management and Commercial Excellence
  • Detailed working knowledge of ‘Marketing operations’ and the processes to support this
  • Proven ability to professionally deal with unexpected issues arising throughout the delivery of complex projects
  • Strong negotiation skills as well as reading and understanding of contractual language
  • Commercial understanding of complex internal deals
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • Competence with Microsoft Office, IRI, or Nielsen database
  • Demonstrates strong behavioral skills of leadership, communication, teamwork, customer-focus, results-driven, and accountability
  • Have a clear articulation of the strategy and the ability to summarize succinctly often complex marketing principles and logic
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