Best Buy
Richfield or Minnesota

Category Lead Senior Manager

Hybrid$93,200 - $166,550/yrPosted 5 days ago

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Location
Richfield or Minnesota
Work type
Hybrid
Compensation
$93,200 - $166,550/yr
Posted
5 days ago
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About this role

Job Description

As a Category Lead Senior Manager, you’ll lead with a digital first mindset balancing customer, enterprise, macro industry and competitive impacts. You’ll be responsible for developing the annual category strategy that delivers on customer experience and financial goals. You’ll manage omni-channel P&L and customer experience across merchandising, e-commerce and demand planning while managing vendor relationships and negotiations. Additionally, you will lead analysts to ensure individual functions are executed appropriately. This is not for a specific category, but for the position/level across Category Management.

This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days at our corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota, and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What you’ll do
 
  • Build an inclusive working environment while developing employees and influencing internal cross-functional and external partners
  • Oversee assortment strategy and transition management, developing promotional and pricing strategies, inventory management, and vendor management
  • Oversee all forecasting, budgeting, orders, and distribution of products
  • Develop seamless digital first experience grounded in customer need. Develop merchandising and fulfillment strategy starting with the online experience, ensuring there is a clear tie to in-store experience and enabling virtual labor
  • Facilitate internal and external partnerships, identify trends, and execute business opportunities to accelerate growth and minimize risk

Basic qualifications
 
  • 4 years of experience in merchandising, demand planning, e-commerce, marketing, operations, customer experience, vendor management, or supply chain
  • 1 year of mentoring, cross-functional team management, or influencing without authority
  • 1 year of experience communicating and partnering with vendors/3rd party
  • Proficient in written and verbal communication
  • Basic Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite

Preferred qualifications
 
  • 4 years of dedicated functional experience across merchandising, demand/inventory planning, e-commerce site management, merchandise planning, or financial planning
  • 2 years of providing cross-functional team direction
  • 1 year of people management experience 
  • Experience in short and mid-term strategy development and execution

 
What’s in it for you

We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:
  • Competitive pay
  • Great employee discount
  • Financial savings and retirement resources
  • Support for your physical and mental well-being
Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.

Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our 
Incentive Programs Summary.

For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our 
Benefits Guide.

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Address Line 1

7601 Penn Avenue South

City

Richfield

State

Minnesota

Zip

55423-8500

Job Level

Manager

Employment Category

Full time

Brand

Best Buy

Search Categories

Corporate, Merchandising / Buying

Minimum Pay

93,200.00

Benefits

Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being, as outlined in the Benefits Guide. Eligibility may vary.

Worker Type

Regular

Maximum Pay

166,550.00
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