Our Team:

As a Category Experience Specialist within the PPAG (Promotional Products, Apparel and Gifts) team, you will work to maximize the performance of our Hard Goods product categories. This will be achieved through both owning the strategy of an assortment of products yourself and by supporting the Category Manager in optimizing the entire Hard Goods category holistically. You must be an effective communicator with strong strategic and analytical capabilities who can influence and manage a broad set of projects and stakeholders across the organization.

What You Will Do:

• Develop and enhance the category strategy for an assortment of key Hard Goods products globally, to implement growth drivers and engage our customers with product solutions for their businesses. Also support the Hard Goods Category Manager in developing a holistic strategy to hit our ambitious goals and objectives.
• Obsess over the customer - demonstrate a deep understanding of your product categories, markets, competitors, customers and use cases. Using this understanding to drive forward category performance.
• Responsible for the management of the end-to-end product life cycle, including New Product Introductions, optimisation of the assortment based on performance and customer feedback, and the proactive retirement of products.
• Driving key demand elements via the key levers of Product, Promotion (GTM strategy), Merchandizing and Product Experience, collaborating with our functional experts in each area.
• Product and portfolio quality - Ensure we delight our customers through delivering exceptional products and jaw dropping customer value, constantly looking for improvements and optimizations to raise the bar on product quality.
• Collaborating with multiple stakeholders and teams across the organization both locally and globally.

Your Qualifications:

At Vista, we are striving to hire individuals that add new ideas and perspectives to our teams and enhance our culture. No matter your background or work experience, we strongly encourage you to apply-even if you feel that you don't meet the exact requirements or have the same qualifications. You might be a great candidate for this or other opportunities.

• 2+ years of experience in category management, product management or product marketing.
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing or similar.
• Customer obsessed, with strong strategic, critical thinking and collaboration skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Exceptional organisational skills with the ability to adapt according to the business' needs.
• Data driven with a strategic mindset, used to build clear category strategies and drive commercial growth.
• Positive approach and can-do attitude invigorated by challenge.

Nice to Have:

• Experience working in a fast-paced e-commerce environment is a strong plus.
• Proficiency in Excel, including pivot tables (Looker or SQL knowledge is a plus)
• Proven experience in developing business strategies and leading them from ideation to completion.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

There is a lot to love about working at Vista. We are an award winning Remote-First company. We're an inclusive community. We're growing (which means you can too). And to help orient us all in the same direction, we have our Vista Behaviors which exemplify the behavioral attributes that make us a culturally strong and high-performing team.

About Us:

Vista is the design and marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world. For over 20 years we've been inspired by small businesses, and we work incessantly to deliver solutions to their evolving needs. VistaCreate, 99designs by Vista and VistaPrint, all under the parent brand Vista, represent a full-service design, digital and print solution, elevating small businesses' presence in physical and digital spaces and powering them to achieve success. Vista is focused on making great marketing and design accessible to every small business owner, allowing them to create a cohesive brand image for use in-store, online and on-the-go.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion:

Vista exists to help our customers live their dreams. Each dream is unique - and the Vista team needs to be as well. We believe in the unique contributions of everyone within a diverse global organization. We are collaborative, inclusive, and innovative. We strive to role model and live an inclusive culture of fairness, respect and belonging for all. And we work together to empower each other, creating a space in which each of us can spark our next great idea.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Vista, a Cimpress company, is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national or ethnic origin, nationality, age, religion, citizenship, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender presentation, legal or preferred name, marital status, pregnancy, family structure, veteran status or any other basis protected by human rights laws or regulations. This list is not exhaustive and, in fact, in many cases, we strive to do more than the law requires.