Category Manager

Who we areImagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world.

 As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®.  “Brain Freeze” is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 53-year old Slurpee® and with over 77,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month. But there’s a lot more to our story and much more left to be written.  We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services.  

At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90+ years ago. It’s what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers. 

Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways...we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us. 

 How we leadAt 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles. 

• Be Customer Obsessed 
• Be Courageous with Your Point of View
• Challenge the Status Quo
• Act Like an Entrepreneur
• Have an “It Can Be Done” Attitude
• Do the Right Thing 
• Be Accountable

Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.

About This OpportunityResponsibilities:JOB SUMMARY:

• A Category Manager, Fresh Foods, (CM) will support the Senior Category Manager and Product Director with meeting and exceeding category and company goals. 
• The Category Manager will be responsible for development of category strategy along with the associated efforts to support the strategy, including assortment planning/optimization and promotional strategy planning. 
• The Category manager will lead specific categories and will be directly responsible for the financial results against budget along with longer range category growth planning. (3-5 year plans)

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:The CM will be responsible for following key activities:

• Managing Category performance against budget in terms of Sales, Units and Margin as well as providing insights into these data points.
• Taking key learnings from outperforming areas to be employed in underperforming areas.
• Identifying and action planning against key areas underperforming
• Ownership of the Category Strategy to ensure a comprehensive category strategy is in place to meet the customer’s needs and expectations as well as a plan that will meet or exceed the company’s goals.
• Building and maintaining relationships with Suppliers and Vendors that will facilitate partnerships to provide customers with consistent product quality, availability and value.
• Champions cost leadership efforts across vendors, working to achieve the best cost possible for items in the delegated category
• Develop, manage and communicate sales plans for delegated categories and support additional categories as requested to support Senior CM in development of overall category sales plans.
• Promotional campaigns for sales planning periods should leverage consumers’ insights and be in collaboration with marketing. 
• Oversight of sales planning entries to ensure accurate and timely maintenance of the Sales Planning key activities along with forecasting for new items, focus items and sales plan items to aid in securing the proper inventory levels across the store base.
• Assortment planning and optimization - Leveraging market and consumer trends to ensure our product offering is catering to the wants and needs of our customers.
• Works collaboratively with Product Development team to capitalize on customer trends and capturing white space opportunities for delegated categories.
• Participates in broader project planning and review of program expansions to ensure capital is being allocated in an efficient manner.
• Leads coordination of 7-Eleven Experience vendor sponsorships, samplings and other national or regional events

Qualifications:

• EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
• EDUCATION: Bachelors/4 Yr Degree
• YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 3+ years
• YEARS OF MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE: 2+ years
• CERTIFICATIONS / LICENSES: Click or tap here to enter certifications/licenses required or preferred.

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Proficient to advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in data analysis and interpretation.
• Effective negotiation and communication skills

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