Category Merchant - Pets

Category Merchant - Pets

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.