REBEL Convenience Stores · 1 week ago
Category Coordinator
Upland, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry Level
$21/hr - $25/hr
1+ years expREBEL Convenience Stores is seeking a Category Coordinator - Food Service to join their dynamic team. This entry-level role involves shaping product assortments, pricing strategies, and promotional plans while building relationships with vendors and internal teams.
Oil & Energy
Responsibilities
Support category planning, pricing, and promotional strategies
Coordinate with internal teams and vendors to ensure smooth product setup and updates
Analyze market trends and internal data to help optimize assortments
Assist in managing vendor relationships and resolving supply chain issues
Communicate key updates across merchandising, marketing, and operations teams
Act as subject matter expert for assigned categories, providing thought leadership to organization
Reevaluate sourcing standards as a team to ensure alignment with company mission and category assortment needs
Ensure items are setup correctly in Pricebook and within our acceptable margins
Send communications if any changes and coordinate with the field merchandisers, regarding price changes, updating tags, and verify items are scanning on the register
Analyze internal and external data to develop category strategies aligned with industry and consumer trends
Manage onboarding and offboarding of products within time-bound category review schedule in accordance with sourcing standards
Assists negotiate costs, distribution and delivery terms with suppliers and execute pricing strategy to meet margin targets for assigned categories
Examine competition to determine trends and pricing bandwidth
Work with Buyers and Merchandisers to implement successful exit strategies for stagnant items from inventory
Manages, improves and recommends the product assortment for the stores on a national basis for assigned category
Plans include assortment and positioning, product improvements and development plans, projected revenues and gross profit, display, price, promotion and communication to stores
Drill plans down into seasonal calendars, monthly implementation plans and recurring assortment change calendars
Performs monthly analysis and verification of plans
Develop recommended retail pricing guidelines (which are subject to executive committee approval) for the stores to optimize category profitability and establish suggested retail prices within these guidelines
Reviews competitor pricing information gathered by Zone Merchandisers and pricing group and recommends pricing
Works with merchandising leadership on advertising/promotions for assigned category
Works on POP, co-op agreements and promotion timetables and strategies
Develops cost/benefit analysis to determine return on advertising and promotional dollars
Works with suppliers to stabilize product supply through forecasting of key products to solve issues
Reviews and works with manufacturers to resolve out-of-stock issues
Develops and maintains effective working relationships with representatives and senior management of national suppliers
Meets with national vendors on a regular basis to discuss new product development and ways to lower costs
Guides Merchandisers in the development of the schematics
Gathers input from the Merchandisers into regional assortment needs
Performs narrowing (SKU rationalization) of assigned categories and works with suppliers to narrow products supplied to stores
Manages the product develop process for assigned categories (including Team Merchandising)
Manages the implementation of field tests for new products and categories
Oversees verification of tests performed by Merchandisers and determines next course of action based upon verification results
Reviews solicitations from potential suppliers to determine if potential product is viable for the company
As lead for the assigned categories, owns communication of key strategic initiatives across the organization
Manages day to day communication of key messaging to assigned categories across Merchandising, Marketing, Operations and other related groups
Weekly category review of all items per category, monitor price changes and exception reports
Other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Strong communication and organizational skills
Analytical mindset with attention to detail
Ability to collaborate and build relationships
Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Suite
1+ years relevant work experience in category management, preferably in the designated category
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Outstanding communication and time management skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Proficiency in Google and Microsoft Office software (i.e. spreadsheets, presentation, and word processing software)
Preferred
Some Marketing experience preferred
Subject matter expertise for products within assigned categories; category retail experience a plus
Company
REBEL Convenience Stores
A DBA of entities within Anabi Oil Inc.
Founded in 1991Upland, CA, US
5001-10000 employeesFunding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase