What are the responsibilities and job description for the Category Manager position at OTG Management?
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Join OTG as a Category Manager now and drive a new type of hospitality. Explore career opportunities in a unique hospitality environment with some of the industry's best compensation and benefits, including PTO, Healthcare, and a competitive 401k match.
WHAT IS OTG?
OTG has revolutionized the hospitality industry by pushing the boundaries of excellence. With more than 300 in-terminal dining and retail locations across 11 airports, OTG, and its 5,000 Crewmembers, serve millions of travelers each year. By joining our team, you’ll discover endless opportunities to explore, learn and realize your greatest potential in some of the most exciting hospitality environments around. Our people drive our experiences, so we offer our crewmembers some of the best compensation and benefits in the industry. We transform airport experiences. You drive it.
POSITION SUMMARY:
We are seeking an agile team member with strong instincts and an eye for merchandising design and product trends. This person should move fast and be capable of breaking down and solving complex problems, with a strong will to get things done in a fast-paced environment. This person must be comfortable working through ambiguity and shifting priorities. An autonomous self-starter but also a team player.
The successful candidate has experience building strong relationships, driving significant top and bottom-line results, and managing multiple responsibilities while developing and executing category strategy. They will work with strategic vendors/brands across assigned categories and must have the leadership presence, communication and negotiation skills to represent OTG at all levels of the organization.
The candidate must also possess strong analytical skills and be comfortable drawing metrics-based conclusions by leveraging and interpreting data while working with cross-functional teams. The right candidate stays on top of the industry and competitive trends and can execute at both a strategic and tactical level to drive sales and margin growth while ensuring best-in-class customer experience.
Creating and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with business partners as well as a hig h level of knowledge about customer interests are critical to being successful in this position.
RESPONSIBLITIES:
Compensation may differ based on a variety of job-related factors that are specific to each candidate. These factors encompass, but are not limited to, individual skill sets, professional experience, education/ training, organizational needs, and market dynamics. Our company is dedicated to offering a fair, equitable, and competitive compensation package that truly reflects the value each individual contributes to the organization
OTG Concessions Management, LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.
Join OTG as a Category Manager now and drive a new type of hospitality. Explore career opportunities in a unique hospitality environment with some of the industry's best compensation and benefits, including PTO, Healthcare, and a competitive 401k match.
WHAT IS OTG?
OTG has revolutionized the hospitality industry by pushing the boundaries of excellence. With more than 300 in-terminal dining and retail locations across 11 airports, OTG, and its 5,000 Crewmembers, serve millions of travelers each year. By joining our team, you’ll discover endless opportunities to explore, learn and realize your greatest potential in some of the most exciting hospitality environments around. Our people drive our experiences, so we offer our crewmembers some of the best compensation and benefits in the industry. We transform airport experiences. You drive it.
POSITION SUMMARY:
We are seeking an agile team member with strong instincts and an eye for merchandising design and product trends. This person should move fast and be capable of breaking down and solving complex problems, with a strong will to get things done in a fast-paced environment. This person must be comfortable working through ambiguity and shifting priorities. An autonomous self-starter but also a team player.
The successful candidate has experience building strong relationships, driving significant top and bottom-line results, and managing multiple responsibilities while developing and executing category strategy. They will work with strategic vendors/brands across assigned categories and must have the leadership presence, communication and negotiation skills to represent OTG at all levels of the organization.
The candidate must also possess strong analytical skills and be comfortable drawing metrics-based conclusions by leveraging and interpreting data while working with cross-functional teams. The right candidate stays on top of the industry and competitive trends and can execute at both a strategic and tactical level to drive sales and margin growth while ensuring best-in-class customer experience.
Creating and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with business partners as well as a hig h level of knowledge about customer interests are critical to being successful in this position.
RESPONSIBLITIES:
- Define a strategy to deliver optimal customer experience alongside profitable department and category growth.
- Manage the key business inputs of product selection, price, and promotion to achieve sales, margin, unit and transactional targets
- Partner with Marketing on promotions and media activities
- Partner with vendor captains to design seasonal and annual strategies by category and subcategory.
- Optimize sales and inventory productivity through analysis and plans that drive high-impact decision-making.
- Monitor and manage assortment reporting, driving a high standard for analytical excellence.
- Be an ambassador within the industry and continuously enhance OTG’s position.
- Collaborating cross-functionally on necessary systems and process improvements.
- Build financial plans in accordance with merchandise strategies to maximize profitability.
- Product knowledge in fresh, packaged food or non-food categories management experience preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, retailing, management, sales, or marketing preferred
- Minimum 2 years’ relevant experience
- Experience with product purchasing, negotiating, financial analysis, and inventory control at a corporate or chain retail level
- Previous P&L management and strong financial analysis skills
- Previous experience with planogram execution required.
- Proficient using MS Office, Excel, database and word processing programs.
- Exceptional skills in decision-making, negotiation, communication, relationship-building, organization and attention to detail.
- Ability to multi-task, pivot and succeed in a fast-paced environment with a focus on customer service
Compensation may differ based on a variety of job-related factors that are specific to each candidate. These factors encompass, but are not limited to, individual skill sets, professional experience, education/ training, organizational needs, and market dynamics. Our company is dedicated to offering a fair, equitable, and competitive compensation package that truly reflects the value each individual contributes to the organization
OTG Concessions Management, LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.
Salary : $75,000 - $90,000
