Category Manager

Category Manager - sune

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Head of Commerce, our Category Manager will help lead our brand recruitment strategy as we partner with them to challenge the future of live shopping.

You will help identify, attract, and recruit the right Makers to bring onto our platform to attract a new audience: consumers of handmade, artisanal, and small batch products. You will lead communications with prospective brands and makers, recruiting them onto the platform, managing the process from identification through launch for our consumers to shop.

Who We Are

As Qurate Retail Group's newest department, vCommerce Ventures (vCV) is designed to accelerate our innovation in video commerce. Within vCV, sune is building a next-generation video-driven shopping platform where the story of makers and their creations come alive and are discovered by passionate consumers that love to own & gift the artisanal, hand-crafted & handmade

This standalone NY-based "startup" enjoys the autonomy to imagine a new vCommercebusiness model with the backing, resources, and expertise of Qurate Retail Group. We are redefining how consumers shop by creating the most entertaining "live" shoppable moments. If you are soulful, and passionate with a sincere interest in changing and improving the human shopping experience, join us.

Your Impact

• Represent: Be the face of our organization to the Maker community: lead brand/products attraction effort through proactive reach outs, trade shows, craft shows, conferences, and more.
• Brand identification: Identify products and makers that would be a potential fit to bring onto our platform, identify how to reach them and pitch a partnership.
• Launch preparation: Implement SKU onboarding, product assortment management, pricing and promotional strategies. Work cross-functionally with tech and marketing to ensure exposure.
• Pitch: Manage outreach and communications with prospective makers, reporting and recording progress with the rest of the commerce team.
• Process: Develop best practices to manage outreach and attract makers to the platform, onboard them, and build a launch plans.
• Refine: Use market research, competitor analysis to refine brand assortment to continue adapting to consumer preferences and latest market trends.
• Feedback: Use sales performance, user feedback, and app metrics to inform assortment selection criteria.
• Customer: Refine our understanding of our target consumer, their shopping patterns and product preferences.
• Performance: Deliver reports and presentations of findings to management and executive leadership.
• Manage: Onboard and assist new team members as function grows and manage temporary employees, contractors, interns, and Category Analyst.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
• 4 or more years of experience in buying, merchandising, branding or marketing industry or similar role preferred or relevant educational background.
• Experience directly or indirectly managing others and projects.
• Knowledge of retail, eCommerce and sales funnels.
• Excellent research skills and proficiency with Microsoft excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets). Saleforce experience a plus.
• Experience translating complex concepts and methodologies into easily understood language.

Candidates looking for an exciting start-up environment and growth opportunities with significant earning potential - based on the success of the new organization - this is the company for you!

Our compensation package is a competitive combination of base salary, short-term annual bonus, long-term cash-based incentives and a Founder's Bonus for initial team members. Base salary for this role ranges from $115,000-$130,000 plus the strong annual and long-term variable incentives noted. Salary ranges are general guideline only, and actual salaries will vary and are based on factors such as a candidate's qualifications, skills, experience and geographic location as well as business and market conditions. This compensation package provides significant rewards to the candidate over-time based on company performance and personal success.

At Qurate Retail Group, salary is just one component of a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes a robust benefits package (inclusive of health & welfare), 401K match, tuition reimbursement and company discounts — plus an amazing culture!

Salary: $115,000.00 - $130,000.00

Join us as we enrich life’s everyday moments – including yours. Apply today!

If you enjoy being a part of a team, creating experiences and delighting customers, you’ll love it here. If you’re excited about retail, fashion, media, social, live streaming, technology, customer service, design and more, you’ll find amazing projects to work on. If you want to grow professionally and learn every day, you’ll thrive with us. If you appreciate flexible working options, our Qurated community, where intentional connections matter and a company committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, you’ll be amazed at what’s available for our team members! We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package including competitive compensation, health care benefits starting on day 1, 401(k), paid time off, tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, company discounts and much more. Best of all, working with Qurate Retail Group means friendly teams, ambitious projects and fast-moving careers!

For Qurate Retail Group, our focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is deeply rooted in Our Principles. They call on us to Drive Progress, Act With Empathy, Be Brave, Embrace the Future, and Do What’s Right so that everyone can thrive. We are committed to ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. As an equal opportunity employer, Qurate Retail Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at workwithus@qurateretail.com for assistance. ​

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