Assistant Category Merchant, Meat and Seafood Merchandising

Amazon Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Austin is seeking an Assistant Category Merchant for Meat and Seafood Merchandising to help develop category goals and assortments balancing national brands, local relevance and private label opportunities.

You will support merchandising planning, pricing and promotion, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to drive profitable sales. Key responsibilities include supplier coordination, data analysis, category resets, events planning, and project execution.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience using Excel and other business analytic tools.

Responsibilities

• Supports category, merchandising, promotional and pricing strategy development, analysis and execution.
• Supports category assortment planning, including supplier line reviews, assortment analysis, stakeholder collaboration, item planning and forecasting.
• With guidance, translates assortment plans into merchandising plans and helps with project execution.
• Plans and executes logistics for key events including supplier line reviews and meetings.
• Maintains supplier contacts and supports communications as needed.
• Maintains and updates system content to resolve and respond to issues.
• Facilitates information sharing between stakeholders.
• Supports testing development, execution, and analysis.
• Assists with category reset, promotions, samples and data management.
• Performs data analysis and reporting.

Skills

Account management

Project management

Buying experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

Google Analytics

SQL

HTML

Job description

Assistant Category Merchant, Meat and Seafood Merchandising

Job ID: 10596485 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Develops category goals, strategies and product assortments through the lens of our core customer, ensuring a strong mix of national brand product relevance, best-in-class local product relevance, and best-in-class private label product relevance - distinguishing Whole Foods Market from our competition. Responsible for supporting business financial performance, developing strategies that drive profitable sales through data-rich, customer centric assortment selection, product development, pricing, presentation, and promotion. Collaborates and works closely with Merchandising Planning, Merchandise Operations, Procurement, Marketing, Quality Assurance, Inventory Planning and our Suppliers to most effectively deliver on category goals and strategies.

Key job responsibilities

• Supports category, merchandising, promotional and pricing strategy development, analysis and execution.
• Supports category assortment planning, including supplier line reviews, assortment analysis, stakeholder collaboration, item planning and forecasting.
• With guidance, engages with support team and other stakeholders to translate assortment plans into merchandising plans and help with project execution.
• Plans and executes logistics for key events including supplier line reviews, supplier meetings, sampling events, etc.
• Maintains list of supplier contacts and supports supplier communication as needed (e.g. conference call set up, meeting recaps).
• Maintains and updates appropriate system(s) content to resolve and respond to issues.
• Facilitates information sharing between all applicable stakeholders.
• Supports testing development, execution, and analysis as directed.
• Assists with category reset and revisions processes, promotional support, samples and sample room maintenance and with data management as needed.
• Performs and/or assists with data analysis and reporting.
• May own the process for a category insights and strategy presentation.
• May assist in project management of new product development lifecycle (Ideation - RFP - BA - Launch).
• Accountable for positively impacting team collaboration and group effectiveness.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience using Excel and other business analytic tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using analytical specific tools such as Google Analytics, SQL or HTML
• Experience in online retail
• Experience with software and editing tools (including HTML, Excel and SQL)

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