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The Category Assortment Planner is responsible for developing and executing category assortment plans that align with the company's overall strategy and goals. This role involves analyzing market trends, consumer preferences, and sales data to create optimized product assortments that maximize sales, profitability, and customer satisfaction. The Category Assortment Planner works closely with merchandising, buying, marketing, and supply chain teams to ensure a cohesive and effective product offering.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Assortment Planning:
- Develop comprehensive category assortment plans based on market analysis, sales data, and consumer trends.
- Identify product gaps and opportunities within the current assortment.
- Collaborate with buyers and merchandisers to select products that align with the company's strategic objectives.
- Balance the mix of products to ensure a diverse and appealing assortment for customers.
- Conduct and deliver space to sales analytics to deliver on shelf availability customer metrics, inclusive of item capacity and inventory management.
- Build physical test sets to showcase changes at shelf.
- Produce core planogram recommendations.
- Project governance of category transition milestones
- Develop comprehensive category assortment plans based on market analysis, sales data, and consumer trends.
- Market Analysis:
- Facilitate implementation of market research to understand industry trends, competitive landscape, and customer preferences.
- Familiar with data solutions such as Nielsen, IRI, dunnhumby and Placr. Ai.
- Analyze household performance data to identify top-performing products and categories.
- Monitor and report on market changes that could impact product assortment.
- Facilitate implementation of market research to understand industry trends, competitive landscape, and customer preferences.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Effectively manage key milestones of transition planning with buying partners.
- Skilled at delivering feedback and navigating thoughtful conversations.
- Partner with buying team to enable customer centric assortments; delivering against company OSA metrics set forth by senior management.
- Work closely with marketing teams to support promotional strategies that support the assortment plan.
- Partner with supply chain teams to ensure timely and efficient product delivery.
- Coordinate with visual merchandising to ensure in-store and online displays align with the assortment strategy.
- Performance Analysis:
- Track and analyze the performance of the assortment plan including sales, margin, and inventory metrics.
- Make data-driven recommendations for adjustments to the assortment plan based on performance analysis.
- Prepare and present regular reports on assortment performance to senior management
What You'll Be Doing:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Merchandising, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in merchandising, buying, or category management.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret sales data and market trends.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Proficiency in assortment planning and merchandising software.
- Demonstrated strength at presentation to varying levels of leadership.
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational and project management skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in the retail industry, preferably in a similar category planning role.
- Knowledge of consumer behavior and retail market dynamics.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and other data analysis tools.
- Experience with omnichannel retail strategies.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Merchandising, or related field
- 3+ years of experience in merchandising, buying, or category management
- Familiarity with data solutions such as Nielsen, IRI, dunnhumby, and Placr.ai
- Proficiency in assortment planning and merchandising software
- Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret sales data and market trends
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Demonstrated presentation skills to varying levels of leadership
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational and project management skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities
- Experience in the retail industry, preferably in a similar category planning role
- Knowledge of consumer behavior and retail market dynamics
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and other data analysis tools
- Experience with omnichannel retail strategies
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
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What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better
