Job Attributes
138494BR
Sales
Full Time
Punta Gorda, FL
CBIPunta Gorda (1869)
February 23, 2026
Merchandising Manager, Category
Company Description:
Job Description:
Position PurposeTo manage the customer relations, purchasing, and financial management functions related to your productcategory in order to achieve maximum profits and customer satisfaction. To coordinate the buying, selling, andmerchandising efforts of the vendor and distributor, resulting in satisfied customers, profitable sales and aboveaverage in-stock percentages, inventory turns, and days accounts payable outstanding.Major Functional Responsibilities• Maintain optimal inventory levels to meet customers' needs.• Monitor over-committed and urgent items.• Increase inventory turns upon reaching full truckloads.• Resolve slow moving and dead inventory by selling it or billing customer for it.• Keep your product knowledge up to date by attending and• participating in special events such as food shows, buying shows, and seminars.• Be responsible for knowing your products and for product knowledge training for customers.• Review over-committed, urgent items, buyer's outs, stock adjustments, receiving discrepancies, and salesbelow cost reports.• Negotiate buy brackets, inbound freight rates, backhaul dollars, cash discounts, extended terms, and earnedincome.• Ensure costing and pricing accuracy, with special attention to changes, discrepancies, and customer audits.• Process returns to vendors including entering vendor bill backs before merchandise leaves our buildings.• Assist accounting with invoicing customers for storage and finance charges on excess inventory.• Set up vendor bill backs with Vice President of Purchasing.• Review monthly reports.• Work with Accounts Payable to ensure that vendor bill backs are promptly billed and deducted.• Review vendor accounts receivable list.• Review all customer credit memos and bill back to manufacturers.• Work with Accounts Payable to negotiate, approve, and resolve all billing vs. receiving discrepancies, vendor bill back issues, lost cash discount negotiations, etc.• Maximize days accounts payable purchases outstanding.• Performs other duties as assigned.• Complies with all policies and standards.This is an onsite position located in beautiful Punta Gorda, Florida. Relocation assistance is available for the right candidate.Benefits:
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Required Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree.5-7 years of related experience in the foodservice industry.6+ months of supervisory experience.Preferred qualifications:
EEO Statement:
Performance Food Group and/or its subsidiaries (individually or collectively, the "Company") provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all applicants and employees, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations. Please click on the following links to review: (1) our EEO Policy; (2) the "EEO is the Law" poster and supplement; and (3) the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.