Dollar Tree

Sells discount household and seasonal goods

Category Merchant - Multiple Teams

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeChesapeake, VA, USA

About the Job

Requirements

Merchandise planning, assortment planning, and category management experience.
Market and trend analysis experience.

Responsibilities

Develop the assortment, execute the merchandising strategy, and implement merchandising plans for Dollar Tree stores.
Consult on defining the category strategy for the assigned category and ensure it aligns with corporate strategy and targeted financial objectives.
Define assortments and select products for managed banners, channels, countries, and departments, ensuring alignment with targets.
Identify, develop, and procure products to drive the performance of assigned responsibilities.
Collaborate with Global Sourcing to identify new sources of supply, prepare for buying trips, select vendors, and negotiate costs.
Consult on financial and assortment planning activities; ensure plans align with category strategy and business objectives, and buys align with assortment targets.
Sign off on plan-o-guides, display guides, flow guides, and planners for assigned responsibilities before they are communicated to stores.
Collaborate with Global Sourcing to manage vendor relationships and performance.
Select products from assigned responsibilities for promotional programs and ensure they are appropriately represented in promotions.
Conduct weekly business reviews and consult on monthly profit-and-loss performance reviews for assigned responsibilities.
Consult on leading, mentoring, and guiding the Category Team, and on training and developing the Merchandising organization.
Identify potential merchandising business and systems improvement initiatives.

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Your merchandise planning, assortment planning, and category management experience along with your market and trend analysis experience make you a great fit for our DT Category Merchant position. Join our dynamic team today and find a rewarding career with a company that values you and all you bring to the table.

About Your Role:

As a DT Category Merchant at Dollar Tree’s corporate office, you’ll develop the assortment, execute the merchandising strategy, and implement merchandising plans for Dollar Tree stores. Your day-to-day job duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

Category Strategy & Product Management

Consult on the definition of the Category Strategy for their respective Category and ensuring that this strategy aligns with the corporate strategy and meets targeted financial objectives.
Responsible for the assortment definition and product selection for the banners, channels, countries and departments they manage, ensuring that the assortment aligns with targets.
Responsible for identifying, developing and procuring products to drive the success and performance of their assigned banners/channels/countries/departments (i.e. their “assigned responsibilities”).
Responsible for collaborating with the Global Sourcing organization to identify new sources of supply, prepare for buying trips, select vendors, and negotiate costs for their assigned responsibilities.
Consulted on all financial and assortment planning activities for their assigned responsibilities. Ensure plans align with the Category Strategy and business objectives, and that buys align with assortment targets.
Responsible for signing off on all plan-o-guides, display guides, flow guides, and planners for their assigned responsibilities prior to communication to stores.
Responsible for collaborating with the Global Sourcing organization to manage and direct relationships and performance of those vendors that support their assigned responsibilities.
Responsible for the selection of all products from their assigned responsibilities that are included in a promotional program. Responsible for ensuring the products are appropriately represented in a promotion.

Business Performance & Team Leadership

Responsible for conducting Weekly Business Reviews of their assigned responsibilities. Consulted on the Monthly P&L Performance Reviews of their assigned responsibilities.
Consulted on activities related to leading, mentoring and providing guidance to the Category Team as well as training and developing the Merchandising organization.
Responsible for identifying potential Merchandising business and systems improvement initiatives.

Start Rate = $125,000-$160,000K based on experience plus 25% bonus and equity.

The company offers Health, Dental, & Vision, a flexible spending account, life and disability insurance benefits, a 401k plan, PTO, paid holidays annually, and an employee stock purchase plan.

Full time500 Volvo Parkway,Chesapeake,Virginia 23320BuyingDollar Tree

About the Company

Dollar Tree

Sells discount household and seasonal goods

Dollar Tree runs discount variety stores for shoppers seeking inexpensive everyday household supplies and items for celebrations. Its shelves combine cleaning products, food and personal care goods with housewares, crafts and holiday decorations, including national brands and private labels. Stores sell directly to consumers, with a mix of repeat purchases and discretionary items that brings routine shopping and occasional needs into the same trip. The retailer buys merchandise from domestic and overseas suppliers and earns revenue from the goods sold through its stores. The chain began operating in 1986 and is headquartered in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Chesapeake, VA
Founded: 1986

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Category Merchant - Multiple Teams

About the Job

Requirements

Responsibilities

About Your Role:

As a DT Category Merchant at Dollar Tree’s corporate office, you’ll develop the assortment, execute the merchandising strategy, and implement merchandising plans for Dollar Tree stores. Your day-to-day job duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

Category Strategy & Product Management

Consult on the definition of the Category Strategy for their respective Category and ensuring that this strategy aligns with the corporate strategy and meets targeted financial objectives.

Responsible for the assortment definition and product selection for the banners, channels, countries and departments they manage, ensuring that the assortment aligns with targets.

Responsible for identifying, developing and procuring products to drive the success and performance of their assigned banners/channels/countries/departments (i.e. their “assigned responsibilities”).

Responsible for collaborating with the Global Sourcing organization to identify new sources of supply, prepare for buying trips, select vendors, and negotiate costs for their assigned responsibilities.

Consulted on all financial and assortment planning activities for their assigned responsibilities. Ensure plans align with the Category Strategy and business objectives, and that buys align with assortment targets.

Responsible for signing off on all plan-o-guides, display guides, flow guides, and planners for their assigned responsibilities prior to communication to stores.

Responsible for collaborating with the Global Sourcing organization to manage and direct relationships and performance of those vendors that support their assigned responsibilities.

Responsible for the selection of all products from their assigned responsibilities that are included in a promotional program. Responsible for ensuring the products are appropriately represented in a promotion.

Business Performance & Team Leadership

Responsible for conducting Weekly Business Reviews of their assigned responsibilities. Consulted on the Monthly P&L Performance Reviews of their assigned responsibilities.

Consulted on activities related to leading, mentoring and providing guidance to the Category Team as well as training and developing the Merchandising organization.

Responsible for identifying potential Merchandising business and systems improvement initiatives.

Start Rate = $125,000-$160,000K based on experience plus 25% bonus and equity.

The company offers Health, Dental, & Vision, a flexible spending account, life and disability insurance benefits, a 401k plan, PTO, paid holidays annually, and an employee stock purchase plan.

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Dollar Tree

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