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Category Manager, Automotive Performance & Powersports — CarParts.com
Lead the automotive performance parts P&L at CarParts.com while helping expand its powersports business. Drive assortment, pricing, vendor partnerships, merchandising, and profitable growth across high-SKU categories.
संयुक्त राज्य
कैलिफ़ोर्निया$1,00,000 – $1,20,000 / वर्ष
ऑन-साइटपूर्णकालिकजूनियरमध्य स्तरआवश्यक भाषा: अंग्रेज़ीखरीदविवरण
- Manage the P&L for automotive performance parts, including exhaust, intake, suspension and lift kits, performance lighting, engine and drivetrain products, and interior and exterior upgrades.
- Develop assortment, pricing, and vendor strategies that increase revenue and margin.
- Support the launch and growth of the powersports category across ATV/UTV, motorcycle, and side-by-side parts and accessories.
- Set revenue, gross margin, and contribution margin targets while creating annual category plans and quarterly forecasts.
- Analyze market trends, enthusiast segments, emerging vehicle platforms, sales, conversion, margin, inventory, returns, and defect rates.
- Manage brand and SKU assortments, close assortment gaps, onboard brands and product lines, and discontinue underperforming SKUs.
- Maintain accurate ACES/PIES fitment data, product content, images, attributes, compliance flags, and state restrictions.
- Build and manage relationships with performance brands, manufacturers, and warehouse distributors.
- Negotiate product costs, commercial terms, co-op and MDF funding, rebates, drop-ship arrangements, and MAP/UMAP compliance.
- Conduct vendor reviews using scorecards for fill rate, lead time, data quality, and returns.
- Establish pricing direction and coordinate the annual promotional calendar with pricing and marketing teams.
- Evaluate promotional ROI and refine future campaign plans.
- Collaborate with marketing, supply chain, catalog, analytics, site, and search teams on merchandising, inventory, content, navigation, filters, and search relevance.
- Monitor competitors, marketplaces, and customer feedback to identify growth opportunities.
आवश्यकताएँ
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, supply chain, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- At least 2 years of experience in category management, merchandising, buying, or product management, ideally within automotive aftermarket or performance parts.
- Demonstrated ownership of a category P&L with measurable revenue and margin improvement.
- Practical experience negotiating vendor costs, terms, and marketing funds.
- Strong analytical capability, including SQL development and Databricks experience.
- Advanced Excel proficiency, including pivot tables, lookups, and financial modeling.
- Ability to work with business intelligence platforms such as Tableau, Power BI, or Looker.
- Working knowledge of aftermarket fitment data, including ACES/PIES, and MAP policies.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present recommendations to leaders and vendors.
- Willingness to travel up to 10–15% for vendor meetings and industry events such as SEMA and AAPEX.
- E-commerce or digital retail experience in a high-SKU catalog environment is preferred.
- Experience creating Databricks dashboards or automated reporting is preferred.
- Established relationships with major performance brands and distributors are preferred.
- Knowledge of emissions requirements, including CARB EO numbers and EPA rules, along with lighting regulations is preferred.
- Automotive or powersports enthusiast experience is preferred.
- Experience with marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay Motors, and Walmart is preferred.