Category Manager

Description

• The position will focus on partnering and assisting the Product Leaders on product development, product lifecycle and portfolio management, pricing strategy, customer penetration collaboration, profit optimization, inventory flow management, and strategic global sourcing.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use their hands to handle objects, tools, or controls; reach with their hands and arms; and communicate verbally. The employee frequently sits and may occasionally stand or walk.

Requirements

• The positon requires exceptional leadership skills in managing up- and down-, ensuring collaborative and constructive decision making process.
• The position is wide in scope of responsibilities and requires the candidate to be able analyze and execute quickly, tackling and straddling multiple responsibilities simultaneously.
• Minimum of 3 years of work experience
• Practical experience in inventory planning is required.
• The candidate must be aggressive in execution but fluid and agreeable in collaborative settings.
• Strong communication skills
• While we do not have a strict industry-specific experience requirement, we have a strict requirement on demonstrated and proven (via education or experience) abilities in quantitative, reasoning, leadership faculties, as well as comprehensive understanding of product development, inventory management, and/or strategic sourcing.
• Excellent verbal communication
• Complex Excel modeling experience.
• The candidate must demonstrate strong interpersonal skills—i.e. humility and self-awareness—and be adept at knowing when/how/how much to engage him/herself in collaborative processes.
• Proven ability to drive complex execution processes, including managing people who may not have reporting relationships
• Bachelor Degree in relevant field (preferred)
• Experience working in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• The employee must occasionally lift, pull and move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
• Superb communication skills.
• Superb quantitative, analytical, and reasoning skills.
• The candidate must have a high level of curiosity and propensity to ask the right questions.
• Hands-on approach is a requirement of the job: SKU by SKU level engagement with demonstrated obsession for reasoning and quantification process is a prerequisite trait of a successful candidate.
• Superb interpersonal qualities.
• Decisions are expected to be delivered and executed quickly, with robust reasoning and analytical corroborations.

Benefits

• High level of comfort in working with details.
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans with company matching contributions
• Company-paid Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Free, company-sponsored 1-on-1 tutoring for children/dependents of MSI employees in grades k-12, including free tutoring for SAT and ACT tests
• Company-paid Short Term and Long Term disability
• Charitable donation matching programs
• Annual pay increases
• Referral, Holiday, and Annual Bonuses

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance