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Prompt course · 8 lessons · 26 prompts · 1 hour · Beginner

AI for Category Managers

This prompt course gives category managers eight practical lessons, from market trend briefs to supplier negotiation prep. Each lesson turns a common category task into prompts you can reuse with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.

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What you'll learn

  • Market Trend Briefs: Turn scattered trend notes into a clear brief with risks and opportunities.
  • Competitor Monitoring: Compare competitor prices, promotions, and product gaps to find threats and chances.
  • Sales Performance Reviews: Turn sales numbers into a plain-English summary with causes and next actions.
  • Assortment Selection Support: Score and compare product options before you commit to buying decisions.
  • Pricing Strategy Drafts: Build pricing options, test margin logic, and prepare clear recommendations.
  • Inventory Health Checks: Spot overstock, stockout risk, and reorder timing from inventory and sales data.
  • Promotion Planning: Design promotion mechanics, timing, and messages that fit your category goals.
  • Supplier Negotiation Prep: Prepare supplier talks with talking points, trade-offs, and fallback options.

What's inside

8 lessons · 26 prompts
  1. Before you start · framework course RACE Prompt Framework: Role, Action, Context, ExpectationAs a category manager evaluating vendor bids, RACE clarifies role action context expectation so your scoring criteria stay consistent.
  2. Start here Priya's Thursday, two waysA day in the life of a Category Manager, before and after these prompts.
  3. 01 Lesson 1 · 3 prompts Market Trend Briefs
  4. 02 Lesson 2 · 3 prompts Competitor Monitoring
  5. 03 Lesson 3 · 3 prompts Sales Performance Reviews
  6. 04 Lesson 4 · 3 prompts Assortment Selection Support
  7. 05 Lesson 5 · 3 prompts Pricing Strategy Drafts
  8. 06 Lesson 6 · 5 prompts Inventory Health Checks
  9. 07 Lesson 7 · 3 prompts Promotion Planning
  10. 08 Lesson 8 · 3 prompts Supplier Negotiation Prep

About this course

7 topics

Prompts for Category Managers, Lesson by Lesson

Category managers juggle market notes, competitor prices, sales reports, assortment choices, pricing options, inventory, promotions, and supplier talks. This course shows you how to use AI prompts to prepare each of those tasks with less scrambling.

Every lesson follows the same simple pattern. You bring the messy input, the prompt helps you shape it, and you review the result with your own category knowledge.

  1. The lessons
    1. Market Trend Briefs: Turn raw trend notes and search snippets into a clear category market brief with risks and opportunities.
    2. Competitor Monitoring: Compare competitor prices, promotions, and product gaps to spot threats and chances to act.
    3. Sales Performance Reviews: Turn sales data into plain-English performance summaries, causes, and next actions.
    4. Assortment Selection Support: Use AI to score, compare, and shape product ranges before you commit to buying decisions.
    5. Pricing Strategy Drafts: Build pricing options, test margin logic, and prepare clear pricing recommendations.
    6. Inventory Health Checks: Spot overstock, stockout risk, and reorder timing from inventory and sales data.
    7. Promotion Planning: Design promotion mechanics, timing, and messaging that fit your category goals.
    8. Supplier Negotiation Prep: Prepare supplier conversations with talking points, trade-offs, and fallback options.
  2. What the course covers

    This course covers eight prompts that match the daily work of a category manager. You will practice trend briefs, competitor checks, sales reviews, assortment choices, pricing drafts, inventory checks, promotions, and supplier prep.

  3. How the lessons connect

    The lessons build in a useful order. Early lessons help you read the market and competitors. Middle lessons help you shape the range, price, and stock. Later lessons help you plan promotions and walk into supplier conversations prepared.

  4. How to use prompts well

    Bring real details: product names, dates, regions, margins, and constraints. Ask for a short brief, a table, or a list of questions. Then check the output against your data and your company rules. The prompt is a starting point, not a final answer.

  5. Who this course is for

    This is for category managers, assistant category managers, and buyers who own a product area. It suits people who are comfortable with spreadsheets and supplier emails but new to using AI for work. No technical background is needed.

  6. Safety and privacy

    Do not paste confidential supplier contracts, personal customer data, or private pricing into a public AI tool. Use the tools your company approves and follow its data rules. When in doubt, remove names, numbers, and anything sensitive before you ask.

  7. Your next step

    Start with Lesson 1 and use one prompt on a live task. Keep the output that helps, edit what does not, and save your best prompts for next season. Then move through the rest of the path at your own pace.