Associate Director, Category Management

Chewy is hiring an Associate Director, Category Management to lead our Consumables Private Brands business.

This leader will be responsible for setting the strategic direction and developing a game plan that delivers key business inputs across our portfolio of Private Brands. They will work collaboratively with and be able to influence effectively amongst our cross functional partners in Product Management, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, and Pricing. This leader will understand the Customer’s needs and expectations, and develop a strategy that delivers against these objectives, while driving growth and profitability for the Consumables business. This individual must be highly motivated, results focused, detail oriented, and possess strong problem-solving and interpersonal skills.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the Consumables Private Brands P&L, deliver against sales and profitability targets
• Establish aggressive goals and develop strategies to achieve these goals
• Build out metrics and mechanisms to review progress
• Obsess over the Customer, identify creative ways to meet and exceed Customer needs
• Focus on business inputs and implement actions to drive key metrics
• Evaluate tradeoffs across the Consumables business, optimizing for Chewy’s long term success
• Develop effective Promotional and Marketing strategies
• Influence and execute in collaboration with our cross functional partners in Product and Brand Management, Marketing, Site Experience, Search/Browse, Finance, Supply Chain, and Pricing
• Play a key role in Chewy’s Private Brands strategy development, go-to-market planning, and execution

What You'll Need:

• Minimum of 8+ years in Category Management, Product Management and/or Marketing in a Retail organization
• Experience building and managing high performing teams with cross-functional responsibilities
• Ability to create strategic frameworks balancing data-driven and qualitative factors
• Experience delivering again sales and profitability goals
• Ability to operate at a high strategic level while comfortable operating at depth with data
• Strong business acumen with comfort experience navigating through uncertainty
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• BA/BS (MBA preferred)
• Position may require travel
• Ability to work in a hybrid environment in the Seattle, Boston, or Fort Lauderdale area

Compensation & Benefits:

Our salary range for a Associate Director, Category Management position is $149,000.00 - $245,000.00. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to the candidate’s relevant experience, education, and work location. In addition, this position is eligible for 401k, and a new hire and annual equity grant.

We offer different types of insurance, such as medical/Rx, vision, dental, life, disability, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and accident. We offer parental leave, family services benefits, backup dependent care, flexible spending accounts, telemedicine, pet adoption reimbursement, employee assistance program, and many discounts including 10% off pet insurance and 20% off at Chewy.com.

Salaried-exempt team members have unlimited PTO, subject to manager approval. Team members will receive six paid holidays per year. Team members may be eligible for paid sick and family leave in compliance with applicable state and local regulations.