E-commerce Category Management Manager
$93k - $128k+ Variable incentive
Senior
Associate's
Mississauga, ON, Canada
In PersonOn-site in Mississauga; overseas travel may be required.
Growth & MarketingProduct Marketing
About the job
Requirements
- An associate’s degree in Marketing or Business, or a related field, from an accredited college or university, or equivalent experience in the consumer electronics industry.
- Demonstrated people-management skills.
- Expertise in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, and proficiency with Online Analytical Processing tools such as Omniture and Google Analytics.
- Strong analytical and persuasion skills.
- Organizational and planning skills, attention to detail, curiosity, and urgency.
- Ability to communicate and build relationships with stakeholders at all organizational levels, internally and externally.
- Ability to work with limited supervision and function effectively in a team environment.
- Ability to travel overseas.
- Knowledge of SEO and SEM.
- Five to seven years of experience in e-commerce and marketplaces, strategy and planning, or product management.
- Thorough understanding of product and promotion cycles.
- Experience working with e-commerce and marketplace content management systems.
Responsibilities
- Manage key performance indicators, forecasting, planning, and profit and loss for assigned direct-to-consumer and marketplace categories.
- Develop short- and long-term ecosystem and promotion strategies to maximize direct-to-consumer and marketplace performance.
- Manage marketplace product portfolios and merchandising, including creating, managing, and optimizing listings.
- Coordinate marketing for online marketplaces, including promotional opportunities, pricing optimization, and content creation.
- Manage content publishing to ensure quality and accuracy, ensure communications comply with intellectual property, legal, and product requirements, and perform quality assurance on online product and offer launches.
- Manage direct-to-consumer product lifecycles, including sales of current products, new product launches, end-of-life planning, and pricing across business-to-consumer, direct, and marketplace channels.
- Collaborate with performance marketing, strategy and planning, operations, customer experience, finance, legal, and division sales teams to develop tactical product and promotion plans.
- Work with division product managers to determine competitive pricing and promotional activities for product categories.
- Analyze the profit-and-loss impact of promotions and apply findings to future planning for profitable long-term growth.
- Develop distinct ecosystem and direct-to-consumer sales strategies for product groups based on each group's business and industry characteristics.
- Align overall strategy and objectives with each division’s product-management teams and leaders.
- Manage data and report daily, weekly, and monthly sales insights; develop weekly sales forecasts with account managers and supply chain managers; and prepare regular and ad hoc reports for senior leadership.
- Monitor and analyze sales trends, traffic, conversion, SWOT, return on investment, and improvement opportunities, and report findings regularly.
- Conduct market research on total addressable market, market share, trends, and competitors.
- Develop promotion and offer tactics for business-to-consumer and marketplace direct-to-consumer business based on market research and competitive analytics.
- Work with direct account managers to generate dropship opportunities and conversions.
- Gather requirements for sales initiatives and communicate them promptly to operations and supply chain teams.
- Assess system and operational limitations and identify opportunities for sales growth.
- Monitor site readiness and promotion execution to minimize customer escalations and negative sales impact.
- Define direct-to-consumer sales targets for divisions in marketplace and direct dropship channels, and share targets with division product-management teams and leaders to identify further opportunities.
- Obtain internal alignment and approvals for key activities and processes across sales divisions, finance, service, and other related groups.
- Lead internal project and activity tracking, reporting, and weekly meetings.
- Manage sales program activities across e-commerce content, marketing communications, sales, and product management teams.
- Expand dropship business into IM/CE opportunities.
- Work with leadership on eStore sell-out forecasting, supply chain management, collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment, and CMF processes for CE, marketplace, and dropship.
- Work with marketing and legal teams to develop creative materials and legal terms and conditions for online offers and promotions.
- Manage business relationships with e-commerce resellers, distributors, payment providers, service providers, marketplace partners, and direct customers.
- Work with external partners to develop sales strategies and promotion plans, including financing, trade-in, and certified pre-owned offers.
- Develop account-specific sales and marketing plans with partners to grow marketplace and dropship business.
- Conduct regular partner business reviews, improve visibility into key performance indicators, and co-develop solutions for operational success.
- Work with legal, marketing communications, and finance teams to develop contracts and communication materials and reconcile marketplace sales and returns.
- Lead and support development of new marketplace and dropship accounts.
- Lead communications with external partners to develop sales promotions, including external gift-card offers and third-party product offers with Samsung purchases.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with CommerceHub and marketplace platforms such as eBay, Amazon, or Shopify.
- Experience with digital performance marketing.
About the company
Samsung Electronics designs and manufactures consumer devices and electronic components for individuals, businesses and other technology manufacturers worldwide. Its product lines include Galaxy phones and tablets, televisions, home appliances, memory chips, processors and displays. The company develops hardware and software, runs manufacturing facilities and sells finished products through online and physical retail channels supported by a global sales network. It earns revenue from device and component sales, while its foundry business manufactures chips designed by customers. Samsung Electronics was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Suwon, South Korea.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
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Founded
1969
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Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare: Medical, Dental, Vision, Employee assistance program, Telehealth services
- Work life success: PTO, FlexTime, FlexPlace, FlexYourFriday
- Financial wellness: Health savings account, Flexible spending acounts, 401(k), Student loan support, Tuition assistance
- Family first: Pregnancy support, Adoption assistance program, Paid child caregiver leave, Milk stork, WINFertility
- Incentives: Fitness reimbursement, Annual physical. Preventative screenings, Lifestyle management