What are the responsibilities and job description for the Junior Assistant Category Manager, Electronic Drums position at Jobright.ai?
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Job Summary:
The Guitar Center Company is the world's largest multichannel musical instrument retailer, and they are seeking an Assistant Category Manager for Electronic Drums. The role focuses on managing product assortment, vendor relationships, and category analysis for in-store and online offerings.
Responsibilities:
• Assortment selection and planning to specific sales, margin, and inventory goals
• Managing vendor relationships including negotiating pricing, delivery time, and payment terms
• Coordinating product launches across retail, catalog, and web properties
• Promotional, clearance, and markdown pricing
• Work with vendors to develop exclusive products for sale through retail and online outlets
• Developing promotional opportunities with vendors to increase revenue
• Coordinate everyday marketing efforts with Visual Merchandising, Digital Marketing and Print advertising to drive overall success
• Monitor and report on competitor price, promotion, assortment, and presentation tactics
• Perform weekly, monthly, and quarterly category analysis and external market analysis
• Project future sales velocity based on market and product category trends
• Analyzing consumer purchasing behavior and merchandise according to consumer purchasing trends
• Additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s Degree or 5 years of relevant work experience, preferably in Business, Finance, Statistics, Economics, or related field.
• 2 years of experience in merchandising, retail, and/or category management
• Skilled proficiency with Microsoft Excel (V-lookups, formulas, filtering, sorting, formatting)
• Skilled knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook)
Company:
We exist so music can persist. Our family of brands has put more instruments into the hands of more people than anyone on the planet. Founded in 1964, the company is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA, US, with a team of 10001 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.
