
LPS Merchant
Mooresville, NCFull-timePosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The LPS Merchant is based at Lowe’s headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina, and leads an Associate Merchant while managing product categories. The role analyzes markets and product performance, conducts business reviews, maintains vendor relationships, and collaborates across inventory, marketing, finance, and merchandising teams. It also supports RFPs, product information accuracy, promotional strategies, and industry engagement.
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Full job description
Do your Best Work in Mooresville
This position is based at our headquarters in Mooresville, North Carolina. Our corporate office is a space where you can collaborate and do your best work. Take a walk, grab a bite (or a cup of coffee), work out or get a check-up – we invest in you so you can find your inspiration.
What You Will Do
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Lead an Associate Merchant and assists with recruiting, selection, development, and performance management.
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Conducts market analysis to identify trends, competitor offerings, and customer localization opportunities to drive strategy for assigned product categories.
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Execute weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual product line reviews or business reviews to assess performance and align strategies.
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Provides feedback on product performance and customer feedback to senior leadership.
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Assists with the Request for Proposal (RFP)process
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Ensure product information is accurate and updated on the Lowes Pro Supply website and all marketing collateral.
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Attends industry and customer trade shows as well as supplier factory visits.
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Maintains industry expertise to stay aware of new trends/business to optimize product category success.
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Responsible for maintaining strong, effective relationships with vendors, managing day to day operations.
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Collaborate with inventory, marketing, finance, and corporate merchants to drive product management initiatives and promotional strategies.
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Collaborates with Marketing team on visual presentation and creative development for product packing and promotions Minimum Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Merchandising, or a related field and 7+ years of overall experience in retail merchandising, category management, assortment planning, vendor negotiations, and financial performance management within a large retailer, B2B distributor, or comparable industry.
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3-5 years of experience in Merchandising, retail or a related field.
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Basic understanding of the market, product trends, and customer preferences relevant to their specific category.
About Lowe’s Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowe’s employs approximately 300,000 associates and operates over 1,750 home improvement stores, 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowe’s is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
How this job compares
Set against the 773 open Category Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 29, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$110–160K/yr493 salary ranges
- US median$28–43/hr34 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 30 open Category Management jobs in North Carolina and 773 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in North Carolina
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Category Management postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (670 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 397 of the 773 open Category Management jobs (51%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 29, 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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