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Category Merchant-March 2024
Jersey City
Mar 28, 2026
About Category Merchant

  Apply Now Category Merchant at Nuts.com (View all jobs)

  Jersey City, NJ

  Hi, we're Nuts.com!

  Nuts.com is a self-funded, profitable, rapidly growing multi-channel DTC specialty food and wellness company with over 550 people on our team. We're changing the landscape of snacking on nuts, dried fruit, chocolate and more! We planted our roots in Newark, New Jersey during the Great Depression, selling premium nuts on Mulberry Street's open-air market. We've come quite a long way since then, taking our multi-generational family business online in 1999. Even after 95 years, we continue to pride ourselves in expertly sourcing the highest quality foods and treating our customers like family.

  What's our team like? We're driven, collaborative and entrepreneurial. Energy and passion power our business and we look for candidates who share in that excitement to help us continue to build something special.

  The role:

  As a Category Merchant you will lead strategic sourcing. This includes owning our assortment, vendor management, and partnering with marketing, ecommerce, and pricing teams to drive demand and sales for your categories. Successful candidates will be customer focused and have a strong bias for data led decision making. They will have a high level of business ownership and be expert communicators able to influence C-level external and internal decisions. Key elements of your strategy will include enhancing customer experience to drive sales and gross margin for Nuts.com. This position reports to the Vice President of Merchandising.

  What you'll do:

  Act as the business owner of your categories. This includes building a deep understanding of internal and external variables that impact our business

  Own category assortment including an innovation roadmap to capitalize on industry trends and maintain relevance with the customer

  Negotiate with suppliers and build strong vendor relationships and drive margins

  Work cross functionally to ensure we remain in stock with healthy inventory levels in your categories

  Plan seasonally appropriate promotions and features to drive customer demand for your categories

  Always aim to exceed margin and sales targets with thoughtful pricing and promotional strategies

  What you’ll bring:

  Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Supply Chain, Product Development, Merchandising highly preferred

  At least 2-3 years of category merchandising experience preferable within food & beverage

  The ideal candidate will have strong customer experience intuition, business and product sense combined with solid understanding of technical Merchandising concepts

  You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities

  Be analytically talented, an effective storyteller, and make data driven decisions

  Have experience managing the performance of the product portfolio including developing and growing vendor relationships, expanding and culling product selection, negotiating contracts, setting a category strategy and building an annual plan to improve sales and margins

  We have a hybrid work environment in our beautiful and state of the art office in Jersey City

  What we offer

  A high-growth and rewarding role in a foundationally strong and rapidly evolving business

  Annual Salary Range: $100,000 - $120,000 plus annual bonus

  Excellent benefits including a 401K Match

  Paid Maternity, Adoption and Paternity leave

  And all the Nuts.com snacks your heart desires + a 40% employee discount

  Base salaries may vary based on factors such as skills, experience and qualifications for the role. Base pay is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include short & long term incentive compensation. In addition, employees are eligible for our standard benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental and 401K match.

  EEO STATEMENT

  Nuts.com is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.

  #LI-Hybrid

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