Senior Category Manager, Salty

at  Circle K

JOIN OUR TEAM

You may have already stopped for coffee, refueling your car, or eating something on the go. Then you know what Couche-Tard/Circle K is. Our mission at Couche-Tard/Circle K is to make our customers’ lives a little easier every day. We have grown into a successful global company with over 16,000 stores in 29 countries, serving over 6 million customers every day. In total, more than 150,000 people work in our stores and help desks.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

We want you to join our team! Here’s what we’re looking for:

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing or related field preferred. Other combinations of job-related experience and education that meet the minimum requirements may be substituted.

EXPERIENCE:

• 10+ years of experience or more preferred in category management, convenience store merchandising, operations, or related retail industry; including five years management experience; including a minimum of five years of management responsibility.

Knowledge and skills:

• Relationship management, acute ability to influence, financial acumen and analytical skills are required.
• Must be able to work independently or collaboratively, in a fast paced, frequently changing business environment.
• Proficient with MS Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

THE ROLE

Manages the Salty category for a large geographical region. Directs merchandising plans and operational processes to achieve financial objectives. Utilizes sales, research, and current trend analytics to develop strategy for categories and optimize product assortments as required by the business units. Supervises the warehousing and distribution of some products and services. Increases sales and gross profit by selecting suppliers, evaluating new products/services, negotiating pricing, planning marketing and merchandising strategies. Supports the Business Area Merchandising Managers and business unit Category Managers. The Salty Category Senior Manager should foster an environment that welcomes change and that promotes high levels of ingenuity and creative thinking, risk tolerance, and collaboration growing revenue and margin for all categories.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Defines and develops strategic vision for the responsible category with NA strategic alignment.
• Establishes national assortment with NA strategic alignment. Study industry and category trends to support this planning and development process.
• Determines national promotional activities and collaborates with NA strategic alignment.
• Has decision rights on innovation launch support and category big bets.
• Owns the joint business planning process and relationships aligned with NA strategic alignment.
• Key vendor point of contact – owns the national relationship.
• Drives annual category review planning and presentation.
• Responsible for high level budgeting for the category, with ability to write and present to senior teams.
• Analyzes financial results of the category and provides actionable feedback to the business units.
• Increases professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reading professional publications; establishing personal networks; or participating in professional societies.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing Financial and Key Result Area targets pursuant to Company plan guidelines.