Category Manager

Category Manager – Music & Arts

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• Know the Customer
  • Spend time with the appropriate Customer facing teams to stay current and deeply understand the category’s Customers, build powerful category insights that inform the category’s strategy and tactics
  • Work with the appropriate data teams to mine data to build insights through understanding of Customer segmentation and behavior
• Know the business
  • Stay current on and communicate internally industry, vendor, and competitive news and trends, including event, trade show, vendor training, competitive shopping, vendor facility tour participation
  • Cultivate competitive intelligence for the category and ensure we are advantaged in our assortments, pricing, positioning, content, and Customer engagement
• Build Category Plans
  • Define, communicate, manage, and execute the category role, definition, and strategic and tactical category plans. Ensure that the category strategies are in line with the Customer and company’s goals
• Achieve the financial targets
  • Help plan and achieve the category’s revenue, margin rate and dollars, open to buy, inventory productivity, markdown and promotional plans across the appropriate eCommerce properties, Retail stores, and School Services and Special Order teams
• Manage the assortments
• Manage the Inventory
• Own the vendor relationship
• Build visual and digital navigational merchandising standards
• Enhance Customer engagement
• Drive item data accuracy
• Support our internal Customers other key and unique business priorities

• 5–10 years of relevant work experience (in addition to degree or years of previous experience), preferably in a Musical Instrument environment
• Music background a plus
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel (V-lookups, formulas, filtering, sorting, formatting)
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
• Intermediate understanding of marketing and promotions functions

Music & Arts embodies the world of creativity and music by encouraging our teammates to find their own individual sound. We strive to create lifelong musicians and make a difference in the world by enabling musicians and non-musicians alike to experience the almost indescribable happiness that comes from playing an instrument. We believe in putting our customers first, engaging with respect and integrity and fulfilling our mission with passion.

Pay Rate: $90,000 – $100,000/yr depending on background and experience.

This position is eligible to participate in the Music & Arts Company bonus program based on Company performance.

Guitar Center offers robust benefits and perks including Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k) plus company match, mental health support, paid sick/holiday/vacation time, employee discount program, and tuition reimbursement options.

Guitar Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides fair and equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected status prohibited under Federal, State, or local laws. All employment decisions are based on valid job-related requirements.

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