Category Specialist - Fresh Food

Yesway Careers•Fort Worth, TX

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Yesway, Inc. is an award-winning convenience store operator established in 2015 and headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. With 450 stores across nine states, Yesway is renowned for its iconic foodservice offerings, diverse grocery selections, and private-label products. This role provides day-to-day administrative and operational support to execute Fresh Food merchandising strategies, assisting the Senior Category Manager – Fresh Food and Dispensed Beverages. The position involves maintaining accurate product information, coordinating new item setups, assisting with promotional execution, and resolving service issues with suppliers. Collaboration with various internal teams and supplier partners is key to supporting Fresh Food initiatives and ensuring data integrity across merchandising systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Merchandising, or a related field preferred.
1–3 years of experience in retail merchandising, category management support, foodservice, or related retail operations roles preferred.
Experience working with product data, merchandising systems, foodservice programs, or reporting systems preferred.
Strong organizational and analytical skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Highly organized, self-motivated, and collaborative team player.

Nice To Haves

Experience with POS reporting, foodservice, or merchandising systems a plus.

Responsibilities

Provide day-to-day administrative and operational support to the Senior Category Manager – Fresh Food and Dispensed Beverages to execute Fresh Food merchandising strategies.
Assist with preparation of reports, presentations, and materials for category reviews, supplier meetings, and internal planning discussions.
Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of Fresh Food assortments, merchandising standards, and planograms in partnership with the Senior Category Manager and Space Planning team.
Coordinate internal and supplier communication related to promotions, assortment updates, new product launches, and category initiatives.
Collaborate closely with the Category Specialist – Dispensed Beverages to cross-train, share knowledge, provide backup support, and contribute to consistent execution across Fresh Food and Dispensed Beverages.
Maintain accurate product information including item attributes, cost, retail, UPCs, pack sizes, shelf life, and other Fresh Food specifications.
Coordinate new item setup, item maintenance, product transitions, and discontinuations.
Help ensure pricing, promotional, product, recipe, and program data accuracy across merchandising systems and supporting files.
Assist with promotional setup, pricing updates, limited-time offers, daypart initiatives, and promotional calendar coordination.
Support tracking and reporting of promotional performance, new item launches, sales, margin, waste, and product mix.
Coordinate with supplier partners to support Fresh Food programs, promotional execution, product quality, and new product launches.
Work with wholesale and direct store delivery (DSD) suppliers to resolve store service issues such as missed deliveries, product availability, quality concerns, and execution issues.
Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality Assurance, and Training teams to address issues impacting food safety, product quality, availability, waste, and store execution.
Pull, organize, and analyze POS, margin, waste, and category performance data to support the Senior Category Manager's decision-making.
Collaborate with Marketing, Loyalty, Pricebook, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality Assurance, and Training teams to support Fresh Food initiatives.
Perform other duties and special projects as assigned in support of merchandising initiatives.