Job Description:
Establish market-based perishable grocery expertise to bring Grocery strategy to life. In key markets, develop and lead Grocery strategy for produce, deli, meat, and bakery leveraging innovation, market expertise, and localized grocery approach to drive perishable Grocery sales. Lead and collaborate on the development and implementation of Grocery enterprise strategy to ensure key market sales growth is maximized.
Compensation/Salary:
DOE
Requirements:
Minimum Requirements:
- 8+ of relevant work experience
- Ability to build strategic vision and drive organizational change
- Experience influencing key business partners, including senior leadership, without authority
- Ability to operate in an ambiguous and rapidly changing work environment
- Proven experience quickly adapting to changing priorities and tasks
- Project and process management/ownership experience
- Ability to work in high intensity situations with tight deadlines
- Strong process background as well as critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with daily interactions ranging from senior leaders to deep subject matter experts
- Strong leadership and influencing skills
- Ability to establish and maintain cross-functional working relationships across the enterprise
- Demonstrates courage and holds partners accountable without formal authority
Desired Requirements
- Four year college degree
- Grocery expertise
- Grocery safety and compliance expertise
- Experience supporting Stores/Field organization
- Training experience
- Supervisory experience
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Develop and execute Grocery operations strategy in key markets. Partner with Grocery Operations, Store Operations, Grocery Merchandising, Compliance, field leadership, and other cross-pyramid stakeholder groups to frame perishable Grocery opportunities, define strategic objectives, leverage Grocery localization opportunities, estimate innovation cost and benefits, and champion projects through to drive perishable Grocery sales.
- Utilize innovation, critical thinking, strategy, research, issue framing, communications, and store partnerships to understand and influence Grocery strategy, Grocery process, and organizational change management aspects of Grocery operations business opportunities.
- Responsible for delivering Grocery strategies that maximize the potential of the $700M-1B+ sales opportunity, based on market. Key markets to include a territory of 70-150 stores in critical urban areas of Chicago (93 stores), Los Angeles (146 stores), and Minneapolis (77 stores), New York (106 stores), Texas (148 stores), Florida (122 Stores), Denver (98 stores).
- Represent stores and Grocery operations on Grocery localization initiatives (in partnership with Localization Field Leader where applicable), such as new items, localized Grocery offerings, holiday merchandising, and competitor merchandising.
- Support and train stores leadership team and grocery team members on Grocery merchandising, Grocery compliance/safety/quality, and ensure that team members are supporting the overall Grocery strategy to ensure key market sales growth is maximized.
- Support and supervise perishable Grocery remodels and new stores, implementing programs and objective, and training stores grocery team members.
- Oversee compliance with policies and procedures defined by Grocery Operations and appropriate regulatory agencies.
- Create and execute strategies in produce, deli, and bakery designed to increase sales and profits and achieve planned results.
- Understand industry-wide Grocery operations and grocery landscape and best practices.
- Define and communicate the strategic vision for new/emerging Grocery operations initiatives in key markets.
- Build and maintain a central repository for Grocery Operations processes and capabilities in key markets and initiatives.
