• Assume a critical leadership role, providing direction, guidance, and oversight to the category management process. • Manage the global category management functions, ensuring effective strategies and practices are implemented across the organization. • Analyze data or insights to determine industry and consumer trends. • Review and contract outside data service providers to support analytical needs of job. • Devise long-term development strategies for product categories. • Develop exit strategies for unsuccessful products. • Foster trust relationships with customers to achieve better pricing and quality of services. • Develop and place appropriate customer orders to ensure product availability that meets consumer demands. • Determine the positioning of a product category to maximize visibility. • Liaise with marketing teams to determine competitive pricing and promotional activities of a product category. • Collaborate with buyers and merchandisers to expand product categories. • Make forecasts of product demand to ensure sustainability of inventory. • Recommend and support new product deployment in all categories. • Collaborate with sales leads and customers to develop sales and margins to support budgets. • Provide trending by category to establish near and long term strategy. • Assume responsibility of budget development and revenue for categories. • Promote a collaborative work environment, encouraging effective communication and cross-training initiatives to enhance team productivity, versatility, and skill development.