Category Manager

About the Role

We are assembling a premier merchandise team featuring multiple Category Manager positions. This is not just any role — we seek talented individuals eager to make a significant impact and help set new industry benchmarks within a nationally recognized company with strong buying power.

This opportunity offers autonomy to challenge norms, influence strategic direction, and drive meaningful commercial outcomes with end-to-end category ownership. You will collaborate with exceptional peers and leaders, contributing to shaping the future of the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Create and implement category strategies aimed at driving sustainable growth.
• Increase sales, profitability, and overall performance of assigned categories.
• Oversee ranging, pricing, and promotional activities.
• Establish and nurture strategic supplier partnerships to secure commercially advantageous arrangements.
• Optimize inventory management, forecasting, and stock performance.
• Identify new market opportunities and spearhead continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with Planning, Supply Chain, Operations, and Marketing teams to achieve outstanding results.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is more than a manager; they possess commercial curiosity, influence, and a drive to create real impact rather than maintain the status quo.

• Experience managing categories within retail, trade, or wholesale contexts (B2B, B2C, or both).
• Exposure to consumer or hard goods categories, regardless of specific sector (e.g., power tools, pet accessories, office products, automotive parts, consumer electronics).
• A strong commercial mindset focused on category growth, strategic influence, and measurable business outcomes.
• Keen commercial instincts to recognize overlooked opportunities.
• Confidence to challenge existing approaches and influence decision-making.
• Proven success in translating category strategies into tangible commercial results.
• Capability to build supplier relationships that yield sustainable value beyond better pricing.
• Intellectual curiosity to question processes and seek improvements.
• Judicious balance of data analysis, experience, and commercial intuition.
• Credibility to engage and influence stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• A sense of ownership treating categories as personal business ventures.

Additional Information

This opportunity involves joining a high-performance team committed to innovation, collaboration, and excellence. Multiple Category Manager roles are available within this dynamic, forward-thinking organization.