Senior Director Category Management (Retail)
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Role summary
Manages, directs, or supervises staff and activities responsible for category management within the retail organization. Oversees product assortment planning, pricing strategies, promotional planning, and vendor negotiations. Monitors category sales performance, margin trends, and inventory levels to ensure categories meet revenue and profitability objectives. Works with merchandising, procurement, marketing, and supply chain teams to improve category performance.
Job summary sourced from the Empsight benchmark job library.
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- Compensation for Senior Director Category Management (Retail) varies by industry, region, company size, and revenue. Most surveys above publish cuts on those dimensions. Industry-specific surveys (healthcare, tech, financial services, etc.) typically report meaningfully different ranges than cross-industry surveys for the same role.
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