Senior Category Manager

Position Summary

Headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA), the U.S. Sales and Marketing subsidiary, is a leader in mobile technologies, consumer electronics, home appliances, enterprise solutions and networks systems. For more than four decades, Samsung has driven innovation, economic growth and workforce opportunity across the United States—investing over $100 billion and employing more than 20,000 people nationwide. By integrating our large portfolio of products, services and AI technology, we’re creating smarter, sustainable and more connected experiences that empower people to live better. SEA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. To learn more, visit Samsung.com. For the latest news, visit news.samsung.com/us.
The Samsung Direct-to-Consumer eCommerce organization is seeking a Senior Manager of Category Management to lead the Cooking and Dishwashing Home Appliance Categories. This role will have P&L responsibility, driving strategies, plans, and execution to deliver daily, weekly, quarterly, and annual targets. A successful candidate will be able to define plans to deliver financial targets, drive cross-functional execution, work with data and merchandising teams to create a streamlined consumer journey, work with marketing teams to track traffic and conversion on daily basis and provide direction on adjustments to manage to overall revenue goals, track competitor activities and changes and adjust plans accordingly, and prepare monthly presentations for senior leadership with data-driven learnings and action plans.

People | Excellence | Change | Integrity | Co-Prosperity

Role and Responsibilities

• Co-Lead the eCommerce strategy, business planning, analytics, and website experience for the Digital Appliance team

• Lead and manage the bottoms-up planning and forecasting based on category promotional and marketing plans

• Collaborate with category management, performance marketing, product and finance teams for the Quarterly Commercial Deal (QCD) planning process and manage all program approvals from key internal stakeholders

• Own the tracking and maintenance of promotional spending forecast and maintain a monthly closing process based on actuals

• Responsible for monthly target planning process by consolidating category-level plans into target financial plan

• Manage current quarter weekly sellout performance management for all categories based on sellout performance trend. Maintain a high degree of accuracy on sellout forecasting achievement rate

• Manage revenue risk to target plan and actively lead gap closure initiatives by securing program approvals to generate incremental revenue

• Lead product launch planning and forecasting for flagship products with a high degree of accuracy to minimize stock outs and aging risk

• Lead highly functional and agile business planning and cross functional teams

• Perform promotional ROI analysis and develop monthly reporting with key insights and planning implications

 

Skills and Qualifications

 

• 7+ years of related experience in one or more of the functional areas: category management, product marketing, business planning, sales planning or strategic planning and analytics roles

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or a related field required.  Master’s Degree Preferred

• Strong experience working in the large Home Appliance industry or category required

• Strong quantitative and analytical capabilities with high proficiency in data analysis using excel, tableau preferred

• Prior experience leading small teams with the ability to engage and develop talent

• Exceptional communication skills with ability to collaborate and build effective partnerships at all levels of the organization

• Structured and process oriented approach to solve business and operational problems with a highly agile approach

• Ability to operate seamlessly in a matrix organization and manage stakeholder across multiple lines of businesses

 

 The salary range for this role is expected to be between $170