Category Manager

• Monitor end-consumer purchasing trends and associated emerging products
• Manage existing vendors (and their brokers as appropriate)
• Work as a team player for all planning and implementation of collective projects
• Work collegially and productively with relevant headquarter teams
• Enable KeHE’s account management and field sales teams by generating product selling information/presentations
• Proactively identify and seize non-traditional opportunities for KeHE to offer entirely new lines of products
• Manage all administrative and financial aspects of assigned categories and associated vendors
• Follow established company policies and procedures

• High School diploma or GED required
• Minimum three (3) years of experience in Category Management, or selling & sales management, within the food industry
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated experience working with and, as appropriate, managing a broad array of vendors, brokers, importers, and product trade associations
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate highly competitive pricing and marketing support agreements
• Demonstrated experience and facility using syndicated purchase data and other consumption data
• Demonstrated ability to budget and then proactively manage top line (sales), gross margin %, supply chain metrics (service level), and other program expenses
• Demonstrated success transferring product and program knowledge
• Demonstrated experience and facility with Word, Excel (advanced level), and PowerPoint software
• Willingness to travel domestically and (occasionally) internationally

Bachelor’s Degree preferred

• Health/Rx
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA)
• Supplemental life insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Paid sick time
• Short term & long term disability coverage (STD/LTD)
• Employee stock ownership (ESOP)
• Holiday pay for company designated holidays