Category Merchant - Stationery

Dollar Tree Stores; Chesapeake (VA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Life & Disability Insurance

401k plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Paid holidays annually

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Dollar Tree Stores is seeking a skilled DT Category Merchant to lead assortment and category management from our corporate office in Chesapeake, VA. You will shape category strategy, define assortments for multiple banners, and drive product selection while collaborating with Global Sourcing to optimize costs.

Your role includes leading merchandising planning, coordinating with teams on promotions, and guiding weekly and monthly performance reviews to ensure targets are met.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing category strategy and assortment plans across banners/channels.
• Proven ability to translate market trends into actionable merchandising plans.
• Strong collaboration with sourcing and cross-functional teams to optimize buys and promotions.

Responsibilities

• Develop category strategy and product management aligned with corporate objectives.
• Define assortment and product selection for banners, channels, and departments.
• Identify and procure products to drive performance for assigned responsibilities.
• Collaborate with Global Sourcing to manage vendor relationships and negotiate costs.
• Plan and sign off on plan-o-guides, display guides, and promotional calendars.
• Lead weekly business reviews and contribute to monthly P&L performance considerations.
• Identify merchandising improvement initiatives and mentor the merchandising team.

Skills

Merchandise planning

Assortment planning

Category management

Market analysis

Trend analysis

Job description

Your merchandise planning, assortment planning, and category management experience along with your market and trend analysis experience make you a great fit for our DT Category Merchant position. Join our dynamic team today and find a rewarding career with a company that values you and all you bring to the table.

About Your Role:

As a DT Category Merchant at Dollar Tree’s corporate office, you’ll develop the assortment, execute the merchandising strategy, and implement merchandising plans for Dollar Tree stores. Your day-to-day job duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

Category Strategy & Product Management

• Consult on the definition of the Category Strategy for their respective Category and ensuring that this strategy aligns with the corporate strategy and meets targeted financial objectives.
• Responsible for the assortment definition and product selection for the banners, channels, countries and departments they manage, ensuring that the assortment aligns with targets.
• Responsible for identifying, developing and procuring products to drive the success and performance of their assigned banners/channels/countries/departments (i.e. their “assigned responsibilities”).
• Responsible for collaborating with the Global Sourcing organization to identify new sources of supply, prepare for buying trips, select vendors, and negotiate costs for their assigned responsibilities.
• Consulted on all financial and assortment planning activities for their assigned responsibilities. Ensure plans align with the Category Strategy and business objectives, and that buys align with assortment targets.
• Responsible for signing off on all plan-o-guides, display guides, flow guides, and planners for their assigned responsibilities prior to communication to stores.
• Responsible for collaborating with the Global Sourcing organization to manage and direct relationships and performance of those vendors that support their assigned responsibilities.
• Responsible for the selection of all products from their assigned responsibilities that are included in a promotional program. Responsible for ensuring the products are appropriately represented in a promotion.

Business Performance & Team Leadership

• Responsible for conducting Weekly Business Reviews of their assigned responsibilities. Consulted on the Monthly P&L Performance Reviews of their assigned responsibilities.
• Consulted on activities related to leading, mentoring and providing guidance to the Category Team as well as training and developing the Merchandising organization.
• Responsible for identifying potential Merchandising business and systems improvement initiatives.

Start Rate = $125,000-$160,000K based on experience plus 25% bonus and equity.

The company offers Health, Dental, & Vision, a flexible spending account, life and disability insurance benefits, a 401k plan, PTO, paid holidays annually, and an employee stock purchase plan.

Full time

500 Volvo Parkway,Chesapeake,Virginia 23320

Buying

Dollar Tree