Category Manager - Packaged Beverages

• Supports national and regional strategic direction
• Responsible for local assortment and planogram execution
• Owns frontline pricing decisions
• Responsible for vendor operations and local relationships
• Responsible for planogram implementation and resets
• Responsible for actionable operational reporting
• Selects local vendors, negotiates costs, terms for products
• Develops schematics by applying category management principles
• Increases sales revenues by developing promotional concepts and overlay programs
• Foster positive relationships between National, Regional and Business Unit team and Operational team
• Supports pilots/testing activities
• Establishes and monitors gross margins
• Projects and measures category sales and gross profit results
• Maintains external local and national vendor relations
• Achieves financial objectives by preparing annual category review, budget

• Bachelor's degree in advertising, business, or related field preferred
• Five years of experience or more preferred
• Minimum of three years of management responsibility
• Expertise in MS Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word preferred
• Strong relationship management, analytical thinking, and financial acumen skills
• Valid driver's license required
• Up to 30% of travel required

Other combinations of job-related experience and education that meet the requirements may be substituted