Category Manager - Geotechnical

White Cap Canada; Vaughan; On-site; CAD 117,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

White Cap Canada seeks a seasoned professional to execute awarded categories and manage timelines for execution. You will partner with key merchants and leaders to inform merchandising strategy and present recommendations to meet corporate objectives.

The role involves cross-functional liaison with multiple departments, managing category programs, planograms, and analytics, while supporting distribution and service ordering systems.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in a related discipline.
• Typically 7+ years of experience in a related field; advanced degree may offset.
• May require certification.

Responsibilities

• Manages key product categories in a portfolio of products less than $20M in revenue, serving as business liaison to customers and project teams.
• Drives category program development using gate process and collaborates cross-functionally with packaging design, supply chain, distribution, product forecast, in-store service, sourcing, and finance.
• Oversees category product mix development, analytics (GMROI, turns, margins), CAR/AMT, and visual merchandising.
• Develops and executes merchandising strategy leveraging business drivers.
• Ensures systems support unique distribution and service ordering.
• Develops strategies to solve multi-faceted problems across the organization.

Education

BS/BA in a related discipline

7+ years of experience in a related field

Job description

A position at White Cap isn’t your ordinary job. You’ll work in an exciting and diverse environment, meet interesting people, and have a variety of career opportunities.

The White Cap family is committed to Building Trust on Every Job. We do this by being deeply knowledgeable, fully capable, and always dependable, and our associates are the driving force behind this commitment.

Job Summary

Responsible for executing awarded categories (less than $20M in revenue) and managing timelines for execution. Partner with key merchants and Functional Leader to obtain and assess data for merchandising strategy. Act as the liaison with internal/external project affiliates; present key recommendations and collaborate project results to meet and/or exceed corporate objectives.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities, And Key Accountabilities

• Manages key product categories in a portfolio of products less than $20M in revenue. Serves as business liaison to customers, management, and others affiliated with the project team.
• Drives and executes category program development using the toll gate process and works cross functionally with Packaging Design, Supply Chain, Distribution, Product Forecast, In Store Service, Sourcing, and Finance/Pricing/Hurdle Rate.
• Oversees category product mix development, innovation, planograms (POG), analytics (GMROI, Turns, Margins), Centralized Automatic Replenishment (CAR), Automatic Maintenance Tool (AMT), and visual merchandising.
• Develops and executes merchandising strategy utilizing key components of business drivers.
• Ensures systems are set up properly to support unique distribution and service ordering system.
• Develops strategies to solve multi-faceted problems through understanding of fundamental issues throughout the organization at all levels.

Nature and Scope

• Solutions require analysis and investigation.
• Achieves planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, business principles, and practical experience.
• Manages a group or team of professional individual contributors and/or indirectly supervises support staff.

Work Environment

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Education And Experience

• Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 7+ years of experience in a related field. May require certification. Advanced degree may offset less experience in some disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

We encourage all First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples or Indigenous peoples of North America to self-identify in their applications.

Functional Area

Sourcing

Minimum Pay

$92,000.00