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We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation - working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to \"activate awesome\" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.\nSummary:\nManage the strategic development and planning for assigned category, as a subset of a larger group of categories led by the Senior Category Manager. Ensure category sales plans are consistent with the overall Merchandising strategy. Promote and verify execution of category strategy at the store, and ensure that the category fits into the total store perspective.\nResponsibility\nSales & Planning.\nDevelop, manage and communicate sales plans for delegated categories and support additional categories as requested to support Senior CM in development of overall category sales plans.\nComplete entry for national sales planning tool, including de-averaged costs/retail, and new/expanded items/offers.\nEnsure marketing and POP are developed for all categories as determined by the Senior CM for the monthly sales plan; proof monthly solicitation for accuracy, make recommendations as necessary to support development of regional POP item forecasts.\nFacilitate vendor meetings and negotiate for delegated categories. Support Product Director and Senior Category Manager on day-to-day activities that include Strategic Pricing team as well as supporting Senior Category Manager in the preparation for and engagement in vendor meetings related to product assortment architecture and cost of goods negotiations.\nDevelop and execute strategic merchandising initiatives such as roles and intents of categories, segmentation and vendor and product specific strategies.\nVendor or Supplier Relationships / Supply Chain Management\nOwn and manage vendor relationships for assigned small categories as a primary contact and assist Senior CM in vendor relationships for key national relationships. Collaborate with Logistics, Senior Category Manager to ensure stable supply within the demand chain including close collaboration with Logistics team/partners. Ensure products are delivering on quality/value needs of customers.\nNegotiate delegated category offers, costs, bill-backs, allowances, terms, co-op media and other related opportunities; coordinate / communicate with Senior Category Manager. \nEnsure proper information provided for suppliers including product costs, bill-back, allowances, discounts, LDU’s, routing information, new item set up details and new vendor set up details.\nProvide forecasting information including initial committed inventories, historic sales, store turns, seasonality, past order frequency and cannibalization for all delegated categories and provide support for categories at request of the Senior CM in conjunction with Merchandiser and Category Specialist.\nAssortment / Display management (including POP / Customer messaging)\nLead national schematics efforts on behalf of the Senior CM. Coordinate with Merchandiser to ensure regional sets are developed and in line with the national strategy. Review strategy and decisions with the Senior CM before implementation. \nTrack all key sales metrics (sales/group/unit/margin) for delegated categories and additional categories as requested. Analyze and share insights with Senior Category Manager, Product Director, Zone Leader and other Operations leadership to driving improved results and enhance understanding of the business.\nEvaluate SSI and NRIs for further testing or expansion to ensure the optimal recommended assortment. \nAccountable for optimizing Gross Profit dollars within delegated category role and overall category growth. Conduct ongoing financial analysis of national sets by evaluating product SKU productivity. \nDevelop and oversee in-store testing of potential new products, concepts and promotional activity within delegated categories and assist for other categories as requested. Optimize display management opportunities within assigned category and assigned zones.\nSupport testing activity including preparation/delivering communication materials, tracking of results/feedback to Test areas/stores, verification in stores/Franchise feedback\nAssist with integration of roles and intents and segmentation into assortment decisions at the national and regional level. Work with vendors to introduce/expand new/existing items based on store and customer segments while retracting items in underperforming segments to optimize overall assortment.\nCoordinate SEE vendor sponsorships, samplings, and other events on a national and regional level for categories supported.\nRework and troubleshoot outputs (decisions on proposed items, item setup, etc) and handing requests from accounting. \nConduit for communication\nProvide point-of-view to Operational leadership based on CSA/marketplace understanding; be advocate for customer across the category - engage Operations to support.\nAssist Senior CM in communicate requirements, volume changes/sales plan, other key sales plan information to Division Logistics Manager/Logistics team and coordinate readiness for delivery.\nAssist the Senior CM in communicating integrated sales plans (national/zone) and ensure comprehensive delivery of necessary facts/data/SOP.\nSupport Merchandiser in the coaching and development of the Operations team regarding best merchandising practices for the category at store level. \nEducation & Experience:\n2-5 Years of Experience\nBachelors Degree Required\nSpecific Knowledge & Skills\nStrong Analytical Skills\nEffective Communication\nNegotiating Experience\nUnderstanding of Financial Methodology to determine cost and to develop annual business plan \nIf an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.\nFor a general description of all benefits 7-Eleven is offering in the US for the position, please visit this link.\nFor a general description of all benefits 7-Eleven is offering in Canada for the position, please visit this link.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7003,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Ride Hailing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T19:19:46Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":97,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.974,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":18,"reasons":["conf:3","urgency","velocity","win:early","comp:junior,brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-15T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/7-eleven-category-manager-hot-snacking","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/7-eleven-category-manager-hot-snacking.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T06:51:46Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":10248,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":13478},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=13478"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2F7-eleven-category-manager-hot-snacking"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2F7-eleven-category-manager-hot-snacking"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2F7-eleven-category-manager-hot-snacking"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/7-eleven-category-manager-hot-snacking\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2F7-eleven-category-manager-hot-snacking"}]}