Assistant Category Manager, Snacking
Cincinnati, OHJobSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Job overview
The Assistant Category Manager serves as a buyer for a smaller category, with final sign-off from the category manager. The role supports assortment planning, pricing and promotions, data analysis, vendor communication, and supply chain issue resolution. It monitors SKU performance and helps develop budgets, forecasts, and promotional recommendations. The position requires at least two years of relevant experience and intermediate knowledge of Excel, Word, and Outlook.
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Full job description
Serve as a buyer of a discrete, smaller category with ultimate sign-off from the category manager (CM). Assist category managers with the tactical work in building assortments, managing KOMPASS process, executing pricing/promotions, and gathering/analyzing data. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety. RESPONSIBILITIES - Make recommendations on assortment/plan-o-grams for a smaller category area of responsibility, including potential adds/deletes, and engage CM as needed for perspective and final sign-off
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Manage data analysis and day-to-day communication with vendors, 84.51 and Our Brands, and divisions for discrete area; ensure all inputs are gathered in a timely and comprehensive manner
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Validate local requests with data analysis and align on jointly-defined KPIs with the division
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Support plan-o-gram process, including organizing templates and PCOE communications
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Monitor SKU performance on an ongoing assortment to meet financial and strategic goals; establish feedback loop with CM to inform of potential adjustments
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Make recommendations on category budgets, forecasts, and plans; identify trends in business and competitive landscape that may affect health of business
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Support assortment work and testing process for CMs
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Assist with ad-hoc analysis to drive business forward, such as to evaluate decisions to deviate from pricing algorithm recommendations or react to competitor price moves or cost changes
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Be proficient across all systems (NEXT, Stratum, etc.)
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Support CM in driving promotional strategy to engage customers and drive excitement
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Review past ad performance and information on shelf capacity, store sales, and display locations to inform future promotional recommendations
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Assist in supply chain issue resolution with replenishment; update CMs before regular checkpoints and engage as needed to provide direction
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Organize and manage information sharing with vendor, including product lists /SKU information, directional forecast needs, etc
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Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
QUALIFICATIONS Minimum
2+ years of experience with replenishment buying/procurement, merchandising, store assistant leader, operations or brand management
Intermediate knowledge of Excel, Word and Outlook
Strong attention to detail
Excellent oral/written communication skills
Desired
Bachelors Degree
Any replenishment buying/procurement experience
Any division store management experience
Any exposure to Kroger Category Management Systems, Business Objects, Enterprise Sales Planning (ESP) and 84.51 sciences
Strong organization and multitasking skills
How this job compares
Set against the 814 open Category Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$109–155K/yr524 salary ranges
- US median$28–36/hr38 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 48 open Category Management jobs in Ohio and 814 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Ohio
- Kroger Family of Companies (this employer)11 open
- ManpowerGroup7 open
- Deloitte5 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Category Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 714 postings).
- Education
- 431 of the 814 open Category Management jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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