Category Specialist (Richmond Hill)

Overview

Some of what you will do

Our Category Specialists are accountable to meet financial sales and gross margin targets for their categories. Working collaboratively with their Category Manager, they will assist in sourcing and building assortments, developing promotions, setting pricing, and delivering best-in-class presentation to drive sustained growth and capture market share including supporting programmatic customer opportunities. This role will partner closely with across our Merchandise, Strategy, Planning and Allocation teams.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with Category Manager, develop channel-relevant assortments leveraging solid analytics, industry trends and vendor/brand insights.
• Work with Category Manager on all line reviews.
• Proactively seek out category insights from vendors and external sources of information.
• Provide presales support to high value/specific customer opportunities.
• Su...