Senior Digital Category Manager

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Join McKesson's Medical-Surgical Consumer Markets team as a Senior Digital Category Manager. In this role, you will be responsible for the development and execution of the e-commerce product category strategies focused on revenue and margin growth for assigned product category portfolios. The Senior Digital Category Manager owns the P&L for their assigned categories and is expected to generate new business lines with current and potential vendors to achieve budgeted sales goals across Marketplaces, Pureplays/dotcoms, and Drop Ship or Retail National Accounts.

Responsibilities

• Assess financial state, supplier performance, product mix, and market growth opportunities of categories to formulate an overall strategic category plan
• Manage vendor/supplier relationships, add items to assortment, negotiate competitive terms and services that will accelerate
• Develop and execute exit strategies for unsuccessful products
• Clearly communicate category strategy within the consumer markets organization with the intent of driving prioritization & partnership with marketing, legal, inventory, pricing, operations & channel management on the execution of their tactical plans to deliver intended results

Minimum Requirements

• 7+ years experience in category management, digital marketing / sales
• 4+ years experience in eCommerce

Critical Skills

• Devise long-term development strategies for product categories
• Ability to build trusted relationships with manufacturers
• Previous experience in vendor management, contract negotiations and service agreements.
• Ability to demonstrate effective communication skills with a large variety of audiences
• Liaise with marketing teams to determine the optimal marketing programs for their categories.
• Ability to lead in multifunctional organization, to prioritize, and see-through execution of tactical plans to grow category
• Demonstrated analytical ability and financial acumen
• Ability to analyze data or insights to determine industry and consumer trends
• Ability to translate strategic vision into tactical plans and influence adoption of prescribed actions
• Experience building assortment in the health care space.

Additional Knowledge & Skills

• Strong interpersonal and influential skills
• Presentation skills and Relationship Management
• Strong MS Office skills include intermediate to advanced Excel
• Leadership in a matrix organization with the ability to communicate ideas to stakeholders and senior decision-makers.
• Experience selling on Amazon, Walmart, or large websites.

Education

4-year degree in business, finance, marketing, IT or related field, or equivalent experience

MBA Preferred, But Not Required

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As part of Total Rewards, we are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$117,200 - $195,300

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.Qualified applicants will not be disqualified from consideration for employment based upon criminal history.

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