Category Manager Job Mississauga area,Ontario Canada,Management

The Role: Category Manager

What you are looking for:

A closely connected culture

A total rewards package meant to enhance your work-life flexibility

Fully utilizing your talent

Professional growth and development via challenging projects and assignments

Warm and fuzzy feelings knowing you have helped your community, your team, the business and social causes through the Rexall Care Network

The road ahead is one of adventure and heart. Are you our next all star?

Reporting to Director, Category Management, the Category Manager will support developing and implementing category strategies to drive sales and profit growth for categories defined by senior management as most critical to achieving the annual financial and merchandising objectives for Rexall. The incumbent will be responsible for achieving and delivering complete P&L budgeted results for specific categories and its contribution to total Front Store P&L.

Principal Responsibilities:

Budgets

Review category budgets at a required frequency and report back to management remedial action required to achieve budget

Lead the profitability of category sales as well as the costs and pricing to deliver on sales and margin with cross-functional teams and vendors

Partner with vendors to invest in marketing, loyalty and promotions

Negotiate co-op rates and supervise revenues and expenses against budget

Support the negotiation of the annual trade agreements with all assigned vendors to improve all Rexall revenue streams including co-op and over/above promotional activities.

Present at weekly & periodic sales meeting on performance of Category Portfolio – progress to date, opportunities for improvement and share strategies to accelerate or close sales / margin gaps.

Strategic Category Plans

Develop and supervise category strategies and plans for all elements of the merchandising mix, i.e. product mix, pricing strategies, promotional mix, promotional events, corporate brand strategies.

Analyze Nielsen market data and Homescan data to measure category trends to support opportunities and measure Rexall’s performance to market.

Research, determine and maintain efficient product mix for Planograms, i.e. core retail listings, delists and corporate brand penetration.

Generate data and disseminate information to pertinent staff.

Collaborate closely with McKesson to ensure all products and pricing arrangements are accurate.

Facilitate listings of new products and communicate product changes to vendors & stores.

Establish pricing tactics and monitor implementation to ensure compliance to Corporate policies.

Schedule and contribute to periodic business reviews with pertinent vendors to monitor and track performance to date.

Generate revenues for co-op advertising (including promotional flyers, proprietary magazines, special events), loyalty, Launchpad etc.

Proactively lead shrink and outdates with Operations, cross-functional teams and vendors, where applicable.

Prepare and deliver special presentations as required.

Corporate Brand Development & Plans

Collaboratively work with Mckesson Corporate Brands team to:

Define corporate brand role & intent within Category portfolio strategy;

Identify new products for investigation &/or development;

Assist Corporate Brand team with negotiations, costing, product specifications / requirements, minimums / viability / volume estimates & shipping considerations;

Provide feedback & decision to Corporate Brand team on listing & delisting products within category assortment and execute on these decisions;

Define pricing of corporate brand products to achieve corporate brand penetration, sales & margin goals for category; and

Develop & execute corporate brand promotional plan.

Promotional Management

Manage promotional flyers, in-stores and special event programs by following critical path schedules.

Lead all aspects of editing of promotional flyers and make appropriate changes.

Negotiate vendor participation in various Rexall global promotional events (e.g. Anniversary, Mega, etc.).

Administration

Collaboratively work with all cross-functional areas to execute on category plans – Merchandising Operations, Promo & Pricing, Corporate Brands, Finance, Operations and…


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