Customer Category Manager

Job Summary As a Customer Category Manager, you’ll shape category strategy by connecting customer needs, supplier capabilities, and business priorities. You’ll use market, sales, and supply chain insights to guide assortment, pricing, purchasing, and merchandising decisions. Your impact: Stronger category decisions help customers find relevant products while supporting sound inventory and financial outcomes. Responsibilities Develop category plans using industry trends, customer insights, sales analysis, and data interpretation. Manage supplier relationships, sourcing, purchasing, contracts, and vendor negotiations. Coordinate demand planning, logistics, inventory management, and e-commerce merchandising with cross-functional teams. Track profit and loss, pricing, and category performance; identify opportunities for process improvement. Lead projects and communicate business requirements, recommendations, and progress to stakeholders. Skills Essential: Category management, supplier or vendor management, procurement, contract management, negotiation, financial analysis, and strong financial acumen. Essential: Data analysis, sales analysis, spreadsheets, Microsoft Office, and clear cross-functional communication. Preferred: Nielsen, SQL, data mining, data visualization, supply chain analytics, merchandising software, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Helpful experience includes supply chain management, inventory control, product management or development, marketing, strategic planning, team leadership, and stakeholder management. Pay: $75,600.00 - $91,200.00 per year Benefits: 401(k) Work Location: In person

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