At Maverik, we don’t just offer jobs, we offer adventures. As our Associate Category Manager, you’ll play a key role in shaping the future of Maverik’s food service programs. You’ll partner with vendors, cross-functional teams, and category leaders to keep our shelves stocked, our promotions running smoothly, and our categories performing at their best. This role blends strategy with hands-on execution — from digging into data and P&L reports to supporting merchandising plans and supplier negotiations. It’s the perfect launchpad for someone ready to grow their career, take ownership of business results, and fuel Maverik’s mission of being Adventure’s First Stop.

• Provide P&L accountability for assigned category(s) that meet annual operating plan objectives and grow market share.
• Maintain strategic oversight and ensuing tactics that deliver a differentiated and innovative outlook to the categories within your responsibilities.
• Serve as a subject matter expert that stays abreast of performance trends, competitors, and regional preferences, keeping the company at the forefront of the market with assortments and merchandising to maintain and build loyal customers alongside an aim toward new customer acquisition.
• Build pricing and promotional strategies that are competitive, while delivering desired gross margin dollars.
• Perform and leverage on-going analytics inclusive of test and learn which present data-driven decisions and improve company results.
• Build strong supplier relationships to secure best pricing and promotional support inclusive of contract negotiation; partner with primary distributors and 3rd party vendors to ensure instocks to meet customer needs.
• Collaborate with key business partners within Marketing support teams and across the business to ensure financial deliverables are met amongst our objectives.
• Seek and monitor operational opportunities which enhance the companies’ bottom line and communicate with our operations team on action plans for improvements of processes, shrink, expense and labor saving