As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!
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Weekly pay
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Scheduling flexibility
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Paid parental leave
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Paid education assistance
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Team member discount
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Development programs for advancement and career growth
Please review the job profile below and apply today!
The Category Specialist role drives the Meijer Express inside merchandising sales as a category expert handling: vendor relations, case pack sourcing, contract documentation (under Buyers guidance), legal standards by state, and ad-hoc analysis for category review and business performance analytics.
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What You'll be Doing:
- Responsible for pricing, advertising, item setup and management of the cigarette, alcohol, and select food categories in all C-Stores.
- Own Beer/Wine Pricing decisions made based on sales and providing margin analysis.
- Responsible for monitoring and reporting legal compliance by state, work with legal team and ACO on eligibility and compliance tracking related to Alcohol and Tobacco. In addition, the Category Specialist will manage and provide recommendation directly to the VP, Meijer Express as related to ACO concerns.
- Point of contact for vendors on promotions and events.
- Manage category specific Initiative execution, including but not limited to Car Washes and Air Serv.
- Run and provide recommendations for exception reporting, item accuracy, and item maintenance.
- Provide product support and POG support at 984. Work with vendors and communication with resets for Cooler/Beer Doors.
- Determine and source all DSD product/vendors for New Store Openings.
- Maintain and troubleshoot cigarette/tobacco reporting.
- This job profile in not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position, may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree or related curriculum.
- Experience with analytical tools such as MicroStrategy .
- Minimum 3 years’ experience preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft suite (Xcel/PowerPoint), and retail item setup software preferred.
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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
