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Company Introduction If you're friendly and dependable and you like to work with terrific guests, we'd love to talk about an opportunity on our team! Coborn's, Inc. is a fast-growing employee-owned grocery retailer located in the Midwest. Our grocery store formats include Coborn's, Cash Wise, Marketplace Foods, Hornbacher's, Tadych's Marketplace Foods, and Sullivan's Foods and we offer unique online grocery home delivery services through our CobornsDelivers and Cash Wise Delivers locations. Coborn's, Inc. also owns and operates liquor stores under the Coborn's Liquor, Cash Wise Liquor, Andy's Liquor and Captain Jack's brands. Additionally, our fuel and convenience division, pharmacy, in-house grocery warehouse and distribution center, in-house Central Bakery, in-house Fresh Foods Commissary, and Tops Cleaners are significant assets to our operations. We also have a handful of other retail entities in the markets where the fit is right: Little Dukes, Ace Hardware, Country Floral Gifts & Greenhouse, Caribou Coffee, Dunn Bros Coffee, and Erbert and Gerbert's. Overview Coborn's Inc. is searching for our next Liquor Category Manager, and we are "Hop-Timistic" we will find someone with a driven "spirit"! If you have a passion for Beer, Wine, and Liquor, and have a strategic and innovative liquor sales mindset, take a "shot" on us! In this role, you will partner with vendors, negotiate contracts, and select the products we advertise and showcase in our weekly ad to ensure we have the best products and prices for our guests. Sales is an important aspect of this role, so you will constantly be driving sales, reviewing industry analytics, and researching trends to keep Coborn's on the top shelf within the industry. Coborn's is a "grape" place to grow your career! "Wine not" Apply with us today! Requirements In this role, you will: Collaborate with leadership to set category budgets, sales, and gross profit goals for the category and by store. Partner with cross-functional teams to connect business opportunities and develop strategic and tactical solutions for integrated lines of products and services. Establish and build strong professional partnerships with vendors and suppliers, negotiate contracts and pricing, select products, including private brands, procure deals for promotions, manage supplier service performance, and resolve problems. Conduct regular category reviews with vendors/suppliers to recognize and benchmark strong item performance and/or develop action plans to remedy sub-standard item performance. Develop and execute strategic sales and merchandising programs to drive customer traffic and sales/profit margins. Your goal will be to position our stores on the cutting edge and outpacing our competitors across assigned categories. Also, selecting items and setting and maintaining retail pricing for products, exploring and sourcing new products, programs, and offerings to improve assigned categories, will be a key piece for success. Be responsible for writing the Liquor ad. This includes selecting the Beer/Liquor/Spirits advised in the ad and partnering with the marketing team to create promotional campaigns to drive customer traffic and sales/profit margins. Provide weekly reporting about key category analytics to the Vice President of Liquor Division. Analyze the data and provide recommendations on any changes needed to drive sales and profitability. Monitor market conditions and seasonal promotions that influence cost and supply in the assigned category and use information to refine procurement strategies. You will ensure proper levels of product procurement for promoted products. Drive category sales and gross profit margins by conducting robust analysis using category goals & objectives, research, category management principles, analytical tools, and data visualization to identify and effectively communicate business opportunities or challenges. Stay current on market direction and drivers through various means includ ng direct interactions with guests, outside suppliers, partners, and industry contacts. Periodic store visits will be a great way to monitor the integrity of product merchandising. Understand the strengths and weaknesses of competitor's products and strategies via competitive data gathering and capture. Create effective gap analysis summaries. We believe that building a team of people with different backgrounds, beliefs, experiences and perspectives inspires fresh thinking and opens us up to new possibilities. We are an What's In It For Me Our remarkable employees strive to inspire happiness, healthy living and simplicity one guest at a time. With a vibrant and fun work environment, ongoing opportunities for career growth, and generous benefit packages, Coborn's offers a bright future for all employee owners. We're proud to offer a variety of benefits to both our full-time and part-time employees including: A 10% Employee Discount (for the employee and their immediate household) and if you work at a location with a coffee shop, you'll receive a discount there too! Get Paid Daily with DailyPay - for employees who would like access to their pay before payday, we offer this great benefit! Paid Time Off (PTO/Vacation) Paid Floating Holidays & 1 - time for hours worked on a company-recognized Holiday! Paid Military Leave Employee Health & Wellness Programs, Challenges and Resources - to assist our team members live a life of wellbeing! Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - unlimited phone access to legal, financial, and work-life services and up to five free in-person counseling sessions, per situation/issue, per year. Tools, resources and opportunities for Career Growth & Development 401(k) plan options - we also match up to 20% of the first 5% contributed Participation in our Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) - yes, we're employee-owned. Our team members benefit from the success of the company through this company-sponsored benefit! Additional Voluntary Benefits - such as Vision, Accident and Critical Illness Insurances If you're hired or promoted into a full-time position with our company, you will also be eligible for: Medical & Dental Insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Tuition Reimbursement, Adoption Reimbursement, Paid Family Caregiver Leave, as well as company-sponsored Term Life Insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance, and Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance! As a member of our team, you can also expect: Flexible scheduling- We understand that many of our employees are trying to juggle school, practice, family time, errands and personal hobbies, all with only about 16 hours of awake time in a day. Recognition- We celebrate a culture of recognition, encouraging employees to recognize and thank one another for remarkable behavior. We even have an app for that! Growth Opportunities- We're always looking for motivated, high-potential employees who want to be part of our next generation of leaders! There are opportunities to grow within our company to positions you may not yet even know exist. Coborn's, Inc. offers a variety of development programs for employees who want to grow their careers with us. Our culture celebrates employee ideas and encourages creative innovations. We're growing, learning, and overflowing with energy. In a dynamic atmosphere that welcomes diversity, we are investing in our employees, along with the growth of our company. We invite you to join us in carrying out our vision to "Be Remarkable!"Apply today! **Please note: Not all benefit offerings may be available to Sullivan's Foods employee upon hire. We are working closely with Sullivan's Foods to expand their... For full info follow application link. EEO/AA Employer - All qualified individuals, including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.