Our Opportunity:
Chewy is seeking a multifaceted and analytical Category Manager to join our growing and fast-paced merchandising team in Boston. This role will be heavily supporting our vendors overseas in Asia and as such we are requiring bi-lingual fluency in Mandarin and English to be considered as a candidate.
We have very ambitious plans at Chewy and building our Merchandising teams and businesses are the top priority. Our Category Managers are hard-working entrepreneurial minded contributors that enjoy relevant and impactful results growing our brand. In this role you will lead a portion of the P&L for a category in Hard Goods youll negotiate to improve business terms lead high profile vendor relationships develop and implement business strategies and see opportunities to accelerate your business.
At Chewy we believe innovation is rewarded and execution is highly valued. Negotiation experience verbal written and presentation skills are a must. Our ideal candidate is a versatile business leader with a track record of high performance that can think big and operate at depth in parallel. Merchandising ecommerce or retail buyer brand management or product experience are great backgrounds for this role.
What Youll Do:
- Lead one of Chewys Hard Goods categories.
- Have P&L ownership.
- Establish build and lead strong external vendor relationships including ownership across all negotiations.
- Continue to realize growth rates across sales and profit.
- Build and implement based on research and data insights strategies and plans to both recruit new customers to Chewy and to develop existing customers via lifecycle management concepts.
- Find opportunities within your category to optimize and improve product performance including analyzing sales data assortment gaps and market trends to make quick effective decisions for your business.
- Work cross-functionally with finance marketing supply chain pricing private brands and customer service to ensure teamwork as well as comprehensive planning and execution.
What Youll Need:
- Must be fluent in Mandarin and English at a Business communications level
- 4 years of comprehensive business experience in ecommerce merchandising retail FMCG or similar organizations.
- Strong comprehensive business insight and the willingness to adapt quickly. Sales/Merchandising experience.
- Proven operator skilled in go-to-market and with focus on execution.
- Phenomenal communication skills combined with the ability to influence cross-functional partners.
- Outstanding examples around vendor management merchandising and general management.
- Ability to lead be forward-thinking prioritize and run multiple projects simultaneously.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office specifically Excel and solid understanding of retail math.
Bonus:
- Business and leadership experience in market-leading organizations; both in bigger organizations andstart-up businesses.
- SQL a plus.
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Required Experience:
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