Assistant Category Manager
Top Benefits
About the role
Assistant Category Manager
Brampton
Hybrid- 4 days in office 1 day work from home.
State-of-the-art office with great amenities
On-going training
What You'll Do:
With support of the Senior Category Director act as a key member of the team to development and execute end-to-end merchandising strategies rooted in the 4 pillars of merchandising including: product assortment, retail pricing, promotional activity and placement, while delivering on KPI requirements for Sales, Margin and Tonnage.
Support the Senior Category Director in assortment optimization analysis, planogram design, pricing, and in-store merchandising strategies working in coordination with Associate Merchant s, Space Planners, and Supply Chain colleagues.
Develop promotional programs from end-to-end, including product selection and forecasting, financial impact analysis, pricing decisions, vendor engagement, flyer, and digital content, and evaluate program success.
Set and achieve goals, working united with various colleagues in merchandising, operations, control brands, supply chain, loyalty, e-commerce, marketing, media, and other divisions.
Negotiate and build positive relationships with category vendors and external partners to deliver meaningful customer programs that drive tonnage and sales, while delivering on margin.
Use data and analytics to build strategic plans that best serve customers, and that achieve intended financial outcomes.
Research the competitive landscape and understand industry benchmarking standards on pricing, assortment, merchandising, promotional activity and more.
Provide support by handling the financial performance for the category (profit and loss) and driven health of the category (market share performance.)
Lead and assist vendor program meetings and product costing debates. Play an active role in leading vendors’ financial performance and product assortment.
Evaluate new product and/or platform innovation and work with our control brand team on product innovation and program development for our private labels.
Collaborating with support teams to analyze promotional and pricing optimization tools.
What You'll Need:
Post-secondary education or equivalent experience in retail merchandising
A curious and bold mindset that challenges the status quo.
At least two year’s experience as a merchant /buyer, in retail sales, or merchandising.
Ability to innovate, influence others, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute strategies.
Analytical approach and experience using data to make decisions.
Financial, business and retail knowledge. Skilled in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Teams and confidence working with various software platforms.
Exceptional communication skills with ability to articulate story clearly.
Critical thinking and ability to problem solve with incomplete data.
About AppleOne Employment Services
AppleOne Employment Services is a full-service employment company. Founded in 1964, we are now celebrating over five decades of the AppleOne Experience.
HELPING CAREER SEEKERS AppleOne Employment Services is unique in that we view the career seeker as a client. Other employment agencies see you as a commodity to be sold, and it shows in the way they treat you. Our services are always free to our associates, and we encourage you to take full advantage of them.
We believe strongly that if we can continually deliver the results you need, then we will be able to earn your loyalty as a Client for Life. That means that the AppleOne experience has been specifically designed to serve as a total employment resource to you no matter where you are in your career.
FINDING GREAT EMPLOYEES For over 50 years, we have been committed to supporting “Client for Life” relationships with a full range of staffing services that help companies achieve long-term goals. Providing the most talented Direct Hire and Contract professionals rests on four key values:
- Freedom to innovate, so your investment is protected with value added programs such as our 5-year guarantee
- Everything matters, so we hold ourselves accountable to always providing a result
- Excellence of delivery, which means being reliable, flexible, and treating the candidate as the center of the universe
- Taking the time to genuinely understand your needs, leading to proactive solutions
Because our mission is “to find, to understand and to fulfill the needs of another”, our clients find that our tailor made solutions lead to enhanced productivity and reduced costs…especially compared to other staffing organizations.
OUR MISSION Our mission is to find, to understand and to fulfill the needs of another.
AppleOne is an ActOne Group company.
Assistant Category Manager
Top Benefits
About the role
Assistant Category Manager
Brampton
Hybrid- 4 days in office 1 day work from home.
State-of-the-art office with great amenities
On-going training
What You'll Do:
With support of the Senior Category Director act as a key member of the team to development and execute end-to-end merchandising strategies rooted in the 4 pillars of merchandising including: product assortment, retail pricing, promotional activity and placement, while delivering on KPI requirements for Sales, Margin and Tonnage.
Support the Senior Category Director in assortment optimization analysis, planogram design, pricing, and in-store merchandising strategies working in coordination with Associate Merchant s, Space Planners, and Supply Chain colleagues.
Develop promotional programs from end-to-end, including product selection and forecasting, financial impact analysis, pricing decisions, vendor engagement, flyer, and digital content, and evaluate program success.
Set and achieve goals, working united with various colleagues in merchandising, operations, control brands, supply chain, loyalty, e-commerce, marketing, media, and other divisions.
Negotiate and build positive relationships with category vendors and external partners to deliver meaningful customer programs that drive tonnage and sales, while delivering on margin.
Use data and analytics to build strategic plans that best serve customers, and that achieve intended financial outcomes.
Research the competitive landscape and understand industry benchmarking standards on pricing, assortment, merchandising, promotional activity and more.
Provide support by handling the financial performance for the category (profit and loss) and driven health of the category (market share performance.)
Lead and assist vendor program meetings and product costing debates. Play an active role in leading vendors’ financial performance and product assortment.
Evaluate new product and/or platform innovation and work with our control brand team on product innovation and program development for our private labels.
Collaborating with support teams to analyze promotional and pricing optimization tools.
What You'll Need:
Post-secondary education or equivalent experience in retail merchandising
A curious and bold mindset that challenges the status quo.
At least two year’s experience as a merchant /buyer, in retail sales, or merchandising.
Ability to innovate, influence others, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute strategies.
Analytical approach and experience using data to make decisions.
Financial, business and retail knowledge. Skilled in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Teams and confidence working with various software platforms.
Exceptional communication skills with ability to articulate story clearly.
Critical thinking and ability to problem solve with incomplete data.
About AppleOne Employment Services
AppleOne Employment Services is a full-service employment company. Founded in 1964, we are now celebrating over five decades of the AppleOne Experience.
HELPING CAREER SEEKERS AppleOne Employment Services is unique in that we view the career seeker as a client. Other employment agencies see you as a commodity to be sold, and it shows in the way they treat you. Our services are always free to our associates, and we encourage you to take full advantage of them.
We believe strongly that if we can continually deliver the results you need, then we will be able to earn your loyalty as a Client for Life. That means that the AppleOne experience has been specifically designed to serve as a total employment resource to you no matter where you are in your career.
FINDING GREAT EMPLOYEES For over 50 years, we have been committed to supporting “Client for Life” relationships with a full range of staffing services that help companies achieve long-term goals. Providing the most talented Direct Hire and Contract professionals rests on four key values:
- Freedom to innovate, so your investment is protected with value added programs such as our 5-year guarantee
- Everything matters, so we hold ourselves accountable to always providing a result
- Excellence of delivery, which means being reliable, flexible, and treating the candidate as the center of the universe
- Taking the time to genuinely understand your needs, leading to proactive solutions
Because our mission is “to find, to understand and to fulfill the needs of another”, our clients find that our tailor made solutions lead to enhanced productivity and reduced costs…especially compared to other staffing organizations.
OUR MISSION Our mission is to find, to understand and to fulfill the needs of another.
AppleOne is an ActOne Group company.