Assistant Category Merchant, Meat and Seafood Merchandising

Amazon is hiring an Assistant Category Merchant, Meat and Seafood Merchandising in Austin, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Develops category goals, strategies and product assortments through the lens of our core customer, ensuring a strong mix of national brand product relevance, best-in-class local product relevance, and best-in-class private label product relevance - distinguishing Whole Foods Market from our competition. Responsible for supporting business financial performance, developing strategies that drive profitable sales through data-rich, customer centric assortment selection, product development, pricing, presentation, and promotion. Collaborates and works closely with Merchandising Planning, Merchandise Operations, Procurement, Marketing, Quality Assurance, Inventory Planning and our Suppliers to most effectively deliver on category goals and strategies.

Key job responsibilities
Supports category, merchandising, promotional and pricing strategy development, analysis and execution.
Supports category assortment planning, including supplier line reviews, assortment analysis, stakeholder collaboration, item planning and forecasting.
With guidance, engages with support team and other stakeholders to translate assortment plans into merchandising plans and help with project execution.
Plans and executes logistics for key events including supplier line reviews, supplier meetings, sampling events, etc.
Maintains list of supplier contacts and supports supplier communication as needed (e.g. conference call set up, meeting recaps).
Maintains and updates appropriate system(s) content to resolve and respond to issues.
Facilitates information sharing between all applicable stakeholders.
Supports testing development, execution, and analysis as directed.
Assists with category reset and revisions processes, promotional support, samples and sample room maintenance and with data management as needed.
Performs and/or assists with data analysis and reporting.
May own the process for a category insights and strategy presentation.
May assist in project management of new product development lifecycle (Ideation – RFP – BA – Launch).
Accountable for positively impacting team collaboration and group effectiveness.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic qualifications

- 1+ years of account management, project or program management or buying experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience using Excel and other business analytic tools

Preferred qualifications

- Experience using analytical specific tools such as Google Analytics, SQL or HTML
- Experience in online retail
- Experience with software and editing tools (including HTML, Excel and SQL)

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How we rate this

Assistant Category Merchant, Meat and Seafood Merchandising at Amazon rates 25 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Assistant Category Merchant, Meat and Seafood Merchandising is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 1 of 4: Little AI.
The role is based in US, TX, Austin.
The job was posted on November 4, 2026.
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