- Support the banner merchandising strategies and drive both customer loyalty and sales growth through effective assortment, pricing, promotions, placements and use of customer insights
- Coach, train and mentor Assistant Category Managers to develop category plans, implement category strategies and manage vendor relationships
- Work with the ACMs to execute category plans that meet the needs of the banners within each geographic region
- Coordinate and lead quarterly Joint Business Planning meetings between the vendors and the ACMs
- Inspire product and program innovations from the Category Management teams and the vendors
- Responsible to establish category level margin budgets that meet the targets of the regional banners
- Set performance targets for categories including: sales, promotional mix, shrink
- Manage promotional and category sales mixes to achieve banner targets by geographic region and store format
- Translate strategic category plans into tactical merchandising activities
- Identify opportunities in-line with consumer trends and banner strategies
- Communicate category performance to operational leadership teams across the country
- Maintain a clear understanding of department programs being executed by competitors
- Ensure a high level of personal and team education on department strategies and tactics being executed in North America and Europe, including the growth of ethnic assortments\Drive traffic sales and cross traffic shopping with food business
- Work with category peers to establish quarterly and annual promotional plans
- Direct the category promotion-pricing strategies and weekly ad planning process
- Hold Joint Business Plan meetings is accordance with the annual schedule
- Build vendor relationships to enable effective Joint Business Planning and strategic planning
- Conduct regular Category Reviews and Warranty Walks
- Analyze category performance in the market place and at individual competitors
- Create opportunities for skill development and career progression to develop talent
- Work with Replenishment, marketing and operations to resolve issues
- Coordinate with Merchandising services and Replenishment to execute business plan
- Execute commercial programs and marketing programs in coordination with grocery/fresh category management, marketing and operations including cross-promotions between liquor and food
- Work with Liquor business development lead and legal to ensure adherence to liquor merchandising and marketing regulations within each province (except Quebec)
- Undergraduate degree and a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
- Experience in a purchasing, merchandising, retail, manufacturing or corporate environment
- Strong negotiation skills
Category Manager - Calgary, Canada - Sobeys
Description
Requisition ID: 182455
Career Group: Corporate Office Careers
Job Category: Liquor Category Management & Merch
Travel Requirements: 0 - 10%
Job Type: Full-Time
Country: Canada (CA)
Province: Alberta
City: Calgary
Location: Calgary Office
Postal Code:
Our family of 131,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Overview
Our family of 134,000 employees and franchise affiliates shares a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better – great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia, but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1500 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawton's Drug Stores, or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team We currently have a full-time opportunity for a Category Manager to join our Merchandising team, located in our Calgary Office.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Assistant Category Managers (ACMs)
Lead overall strategy for category (eg. Wine, Beer, Spirits)
Direct the execution of merchandising categories
Empower employees and develop top talent
Skills and Experience Requirements
We offer teammates competitive total compensation packages that will vary by role and location. Some websites share our job opportunities and may provide salary estimates without our knowledge. These estimates are based on similar jobs and postings for general comparison, but these numbers are not provided by or monitored for accuracy by our organization. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
Sobeys is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.
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