Category General Manager Director

As a Category Director/General Manager, you'll be responsible for the development of the product category strategies that deliver customer experience and financial goals of the business with an omnichannel mindset. You will lead a team to guide and support the priorities working alongside category leaders to adjust individual strategies and create a larger strategy focused on customer experience. You'll be a key conduit for the vendors covering all areas of category management, including e-commerce, demand planning, fulfilment, and merchandising responsibilities.

This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days on-site at a Best Buy location and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. Work arrangements vary by team; your recruiter or hiring leader will share more during the hiring process. For this role, you must be located within a drivable distance to our office in Richfield, Minnesota.

What you'll do

• Set strategic vision and guide category strategy to deliver strong customer experiences and financial outcomes in support of the larger company strategy, while competing in an evolving omnichannel marketplace environment.
• Lead assortment and promotional strategies for all aspects of merchandising, demand planning, and ecommerce within the portfolio, including managing P&L and inventory health within assigned Category.
• Effectively represent and communicate the category strategy and approach to category peers, key strategic 1p vendors, and cross-functional partners helping ensure all stakeholders understand the role of category within the enterprise priorities.
• Partner with Best Buy Marketplace team to incorporate a holistic category approach that is competitive in the broader marketplace.
• Drive strategic alignment and long-term value through vendor relationships, program negotiations, and industry influence.

• About the Company

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  Best Buy

  Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.

  That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?

  You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.

  Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.

  When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.

  So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.