Category Strategy Manager

5 days ago


Davidson, United States MSC Industrial Direct Full time
Job Title: Category Strategy Manager

BUILD A BETTER CAREER WITH MSC

Serving customers and our community starts with the best people doing their best work. That is precisely what we have created at MSC Industrial Supply Co. We are a leading North American distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO), products and services. We offer more than 2 million products and have over 80 years of experience across dozens of industries. We aim to execute our Built to Make You Better brand promise for all our stakeholders, including our associates.

Job Summary:

The Category Strategy Manager is responsible for executing the Category strategy through implementation of tactics, assessing results, and adapting based upon outcomes. Implementation activities can be grouped in four major disciplines: strategy management, vendor relationships, category marketing, and cross-functional collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Product Line Ownership: Ownership of all suppliers within assigned product line(s)
  • Vendor Relationship Management: Key vendor relationship management and negotiation, product line value proposition, and annual tactics planning
  • Category Marketing: Participation in annual planning process, creates customer solutions for assigned product lines and lead execution in partnership with sales
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Participates in cross-function initiatives to drive the business, serving as the SME for the assigned product lines
Requirements:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Supply Chain, or a Related Field; Master's Level preferred
  • Minimum of five years industry experience in distribution, supplier management and negotiations, business development, distribution, product management, marketing or merchandising management, supply chain
  • Ability to manage cross-functional initiatives required
Why MSC?

People. Collaboration. Insight. That's how you build something that works. Built on a foundation of trust, MSC works side by side with our customers to help them drive business results. With more than one million product offerings and 75+ years of experience across industries, MSC strives to help our customers achieve greater productivity, profitability, and growth through inventory management and other innovative supply chain solutions.

We care about our associates and have programs in place to help our 6,500+ team members achieve their potential. When you join our team, you will receive rewards and recognition for your contributions, training and professional development opportunities, Associate Inclusion Circles: Women, Pride, Black, Veterans, HOLA and DisABLEd as well as a variety of benefits to support you and your family's health, well-being, and financial future.

If you are inspired to learn, take risks, and succeed as a team, you can build a better career at MSC.



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