Manager, Category Strategy
Location
DEERFIELD, IL
Job Type
Full-time
Category
other-general
Posted
June 01, 2026
**Job Description:**
**Job Summary**
We are seeking a highly skilled, analytical, strategic, and collaborative Manager to join our Merchandising team. In this role, you will play a critical part in driving category strategy, optimizing assortment planning, and ensuring that product offerings align with customer needs, market trends, and business goals. This position will also support supplier negotiations and joint business planning by providing analysis, insights, and cross-functional coordination that strengthen partnerships and enable effective decision-making.
**Job Responsibilities**
+ Manages the daily strategic activities that develop and operationalizing a customer-led and data-driven approach to multiple components / processes for a specified section of work within Category/Format Strategy.
+ Collaborates with a team and / or cross-functional partners responsible for developing and implementing strategies that support category at growth within ...
**Job Summary**
We are seeking a highly skilled, analytical, strategic, and collaborative Manager to join our Merchandising team. In this role, you will play a critical part in driving category strategy, optimizing assortment planning, and ensuring that product offerings align with customer needs, market trends, and business goals. This position will also support supplier negotiations and joint business planning by providing analysis, insights, and cross-functional coordination that strengthen partnerships and enable effective decision-making.
**Job Responsibilities**
+ Manages the daily strategic activities that develop and operationalizing a customer-led and data-driven approach to multiple components / processes for a specified section of work within Category/Format Strategy.
+ Collaborates with a team and / or cross-functional partners responsible for developing and implementing strategies that support category at growth within ...