
Category Manager
Required skills
- Category Manager
- brand manager
- customer experiences
- P&L
- business strategy
- marketing plans
- customer acquisition
- supply chain
- inventory health
- assortment
Nice to have
- high-growth business environments
- high growth rate
Role summary
Chewy is seeking a Category Manager to drive growth for a strategic brand. This role involves full ownership of brand sales, including assortment, pricing, and promotions, with a focus on P&L, business strategy, and operations. Responsibilities include developing marketing plans, managing inventory health through supply chain partnerships, and expanding vendor relationships. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in e-commerce, retail, or FMCG, with strong vendor management, product management, marketing, supply chain, operations, and project management skills. This is a hybrid role requiring excellent communication, strategic, and analytical abilities.
Job Description:
Our Opportunity:
Chewy is currently seeking a Category Manager to join our and growing team. We have ambitious ideas for a rapidly growing business and are looking for an expert brand manager to unlock growth for one of our strategic brands. You will focus on building outstanding customer experiences and delivering exponential growth through new innovative customer offerings and outstanding execution. The Account Manager will practice ownership of the P&L, business strategy and operations for a key strategic brand (or two), developing marketing plans to generate customer acquisition, partnering with supply chain to maintain inventory health, and driving growth. Our ideal candidate is an authority and versatile leader, has a proven track record of high performance, earns trust of internal and external customers, operates at depth, and has experience in high-growth business environments.
What You'll Do:
- Have full ownership of brand sales encompassing assortment, pricing, promotions, and brand performance.
- Delivers outstanding execution across vendor operations, including but not limited to item and content setup, ordering/forecasting, promotional planning, etc.
- Define the strategy to build the business, deliver rapid growth, launch new products, and expand your vendor relationships.
- Analyze market, customer, and data insights to elevate performance and refine strategies
What You'll Need:
- Complete business experience in top ecommerce, retail, FMCG, or similar organizations.
- 3+ years of category or brand management experience desired.
- Strong comprehensive business sense. Proficient in vendor management, product management, marketing, supply chain, operations, and project management.
- Demonstrated success building and rapidly scaling new, sophisticated businesses at high growth rate.
- Confirmed operator, skilled in high quality go-to-market execution, with an unshakable growth mindset
- Excellent communication, strategic and analytical skills
- Must have a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.
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Chewy is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need an accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, or if you need a religious accommodation, please contact CAAR@chewy.com.
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