Category Manager - Live Shop Ventures Job at HSN
Thank you for your interest in joining our team! Qurate Retail Group comprises seven leading retail brands – QVC®, HSN®, Zulily®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill® and Grandin Road® – all dedicated to providing a more human way to shop. Qurate Retail Group is the largest player in video commerce ("vCommerce"), which includes video-driven shopping across linear TV, ecommerce sites, digital streaming and social platforms.
The Opportunity
Reporting to the Head of Commerce, our Category Manager will lead our brand recruitment strategy as we partner with them to challenge the future of live shopping.
As a founding team member, you will help identify, attract, and recruit the right brands to bring onto our platform to attract a new audience: Gen Z consumers. You will lead communications with prospective brands and recruiting them onto the platform, managing the process from identifying brands to partner with through launching them for our consumers to shop.
Who We Are
As Qurate Retail Group's newest business unit, vCommerce Ventures (vCV) is designed to accelerate our innovation in livestream commerce.
Within vCV, Live Shop Ventures is building a next generation shopping platform and company that we believe can revolutionize the livestream shopping space. This standalone NY-based "start-up" enjoys the autonomy to imagine, incubate and scale a new vCommerce business model with the backing, resources, and expertise of Qurate Retail Group.
We are redefining how consumers shop by creating the most entertaining "live" shoppable moments. If you are innovative, soulful, and passionate with a sincere interest in changing and improving the human shopping experience, join us.
Your Impact
- Represent: Be the face of our organization to the brand community: lead brand attraction effort through proactive reach outs, trade shows, conferences, and more
- Brand identification: Identify products and brands that would be a potential fit to bring onto our platform, identify how to reach them and pitch a partnership
- Launch preparation: Implement SKU onboarding, product assortment management, pricing and promotional strategies
- Pitch: Manage outreach and communications with prospective brands and hosts
- Process: Develop best practices to manage brand outreach and attract brands to the platform, onboard them, and build a launch plan in collaboration with the content creation team
- Refine: Use market research, competitor analysis to refine brand assortment to continue adapting to consumer preferences and latest market trends
- Feedback: Use livestream sales performance and user feedback from livestreams to inform brand selection criteria
- Customer: Refine our understanding of our target consumer, their shopping patterns and product preferences
- Performance: Deliver reports and presentations of findings to management and executive leadership
- Manage: Onboard and assist new team members as function grows and manage temporary employees, contractors, interns, and Category Analyst
What You Bring
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
- 3 or more years of experience in buying, merchandising, branding or marketing industry or similar role preferred or relevant educational background
- Experience directly or indirectly managing others and projects
- Knowledge of retail, eCommerce and brand awareness
- Excellent research skills and proficiency with Microsoft excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets)
- Experience translating complex concepts and methodologies into easily understood language
Candidates looking for an exciting start-up environment and growth opportunities with significant earning potential - based on the success of the new organization - this is the company for you! Our compensation package is a competitive combination of base salary, short-term annual bonus, long-term cash-based incentives and a Founder's Bonus for initial team members. Base salary for this role ranges from $100,000-$120,000 plus the strong annual and long-term variable incentives noted. Salary ranges are general guideline only, and actual salaries will vary and are based on factors such as a candidate's qualifications, skills, experience and geographic location as well as business and market conditions. This compensation package provides significant rewards to the candidate over-time based on company performance and personal success.
At Qurate Retail Group, salary is just one component of a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes a robust benefits package (inclusive of health & welfare), 401K match, tuition reimbursement and company discounts — plus an amazing culture!
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Join us as we enrich life’s everyday moments – including yours. Apply today!
If you enjoy being a part of a team, creating experiences and delighting customers, you’ll love it here. If you’re excited about retail, fashion, media, social, live streaming, technology, customer service, design and more, you’ll find amazing projects to work on. If you want to grow professionally and learn every day, you’ll thrive with us. If you appreciate
flexible working options, our Qurated community
, where intentional connections matter and a company committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, you’ll be amazed at what’s available for our team members! We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package including competitive compensation, health care benefits starting on day 1, 401(k), paid time off, tuition reimbursement, employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, company discounts and much more. Best of all, working with Qurate Retail Group means friendly teams, ambitious projects and fast-moving careers!
For Qurate Retail Group, our focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is deeply rooted in Our Principles. They call on us to Drive Progress, Act With Empathy, Be Brave, Embrace the Future, and Do What’s Right so that everyone can thrive. We are committed to ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. As an equal opportunity employer, Qurate Retail Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at
workwithus@qurateretail.com
for assistance.
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