Category Planning Specialist - Flooring -Onsite Omaha

Nebraska Furniture Mart•Omaha, NE

19h•Onsite

About The Position

At Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM), we’ve been hiring friends since 1937—people who share our passion for helping customers feel right at home. If you share our vision, we invite you to be one of us! People love working here! Named one of Furniture Today’s Best places to work, and here a few reasons why: A FUN, stable work environment, with no layoffs in our history. A safe place to work and shop, development opportunities leading you to the career of your dreams and a culture that encourages volunteering and serving our communities. NFM’s Category Analyst maintains and analyzes the category planning and buying processes and data, as well as provides administrative support to the Category Financial Planner, Buyer and Divisional Merchandise Planning Manager. Your work will directly impact our ability to help people create a lifestyle they love, for the people they love—because that’s what we love.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree Marketing, Business, Management, related field or equivalent experience
1 year buying or planning coordinator or administrative and/or inventory analysis experience
Computer knowledge to include Microsoft Office Applications (Outlook, Word and Excel)
Ability to enter data quickly and accurately
Ability to work nights, weekends and/or early morning hours based on business needs
Pre-employment screening includes, but isn’t limited to, criminal background check

Nice To Haves

Retail buying, planning, merchandising, marketing or supply chain experience preferred
ERP software experience preferred

Responsibilities

Create and Maintain: SKUs, promotional pricing, vendor promo claims (VRAP) and advertising input and update
Assess: Evaluate invoice discrepancies and perform SKU accuracy audits
Compete: Confirm web crawl (competitor pricing) exceptions and update per category guidelines
Report: Run post promotion analysis, update on SKU workload status and category specific nuances
Manage: Cost SKU exception process (vetting invoice pricing)
Collaborate: assist Buyer with assortment review and vendor funding management
Support: work with internal and external customers on product status and pricing

Benefits

Same day pay - access to your earned pay on-demand, when you need it the most
Competitive pay - generous annual increases up to 7%
Inclusive culture – Because everyone who works or shops at NFM should feel right at home
Health, dental, vision, life Insurance, short and long term disability
Paid holidays (upon hire) and paid time off (after 90 days)
Staff discount on merchandise (Collectively, NFM staff have saved almost $2 million on purchases in the last 12 months)
Virtual and in-person career development opportunities at all levels
Paid community volunteer opportunities
Tuition Reimbursement
You’ll start saving for your retirement immediately in NFM’s 401(k) and you’re eligible for company match after one year. NFM’s 401(k) also offers Berkshire Stock as an investment option