International Foods Category Manager

At Coborn’s, Inc., we believe our stores should reflect the communities we serve. As our International Foods Category Manager, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to shape how we connect with 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 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 for international merchandising—identifying emerging consumer trends, developing relationships with established and emerging brands, partnering with diverse-owned businesses, and connecting with communities to better understand what our guests want and need. If you’re passionate about retail, food, culture, community, and discovering products that create meaningful connections with guests, this is an opportunity to make a visible impact across our employee-owned organization. What You’ll Do Lead International 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 community needs. Build Relevant Assortments: Create authentic, culturally relevant assortments using guest insights, demographics, market trends, competitive intelligence, and community feedback to identify gaps and growth opportunities. Source Products & Develop Suppliers: Identify and build partnerships with international brands, emerging suppliers, local businesses, and diverse-owned businesses while leading negotiations and managing supplier performance. Drive Category Performance: Own financial plans and key performance indicators, including sales, margin, inventory, and shrink, using data and insights to continuously improve results. Shape Pricing & Promotions: Partner with Pricing, Marketing, and Operations to develop competitive pricing, promotional strategies, and culturally relevant programs that strengthen guest 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. Connect With Our Communities: Build relationships with community leaders, organizations, guests, and local partners to better understand evolving needs and identify opportunities to strengthen our connection with the communities we serve. Lead & Influence: Serve as an international foods merchandising and category subject matter expert, communicating strategies and insights 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 Re…

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