Associate Category Lead at Best Buy in Richfield, Minnesota

Job Description:

As an Associate Category Lead, you’ll lead with a digital first mindset and influence across demand planning and merchandising. You’ll support the Category Lead with strategy in addition to the functional responsibility within e-commerce. In this role, you’ll manage up, influence those around you and represent our customers across multiple functions. You’ll also provide mentorship to analysts.

This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days at a Best Buy location and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What you’ll do

• Lead the delivery of event, promotional and experience-based website content; optimize traffic and conversion performance.


• Proactively evaluate and optimize product content in collaboration with internal partners and vendors (e.g., images and videos).


• Provide site performance insights to internal and external partners and identify actionable tactics to enhance the customer experience.


• Lead partners with excellent communication and clear planning through ambiguous situations.


• Oversee promotional planning and transition management.


• Provide inventory support and influence for product end of life.

• 3 years of experience in merchandising, demand planning, e-commerce, marketing, operations, customer experience, vendor management, or supply chain


• Ability to influence without authority

• Expertise in multiple functional areas of merchandising, demand planning, or e-commerce


• 1 year of mentoring, cross-functional team management, or influencing without authority


• 1 year of experience in vendor partnership and negotiation


• Proficient written and verbal communication skills


• Exposure to financial planning

What’s in it for you

We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive pay


• Generous employee discount


• Physical and mental well-being support

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™