Manager, Business Growth—Sysco Brands

Sysco

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager of Business Growth—Sysco Brands will be a key contributor to the design and execution of long-term strategies to drive profitable growth of Sysco’s Own Brand product portfolio. Working with the Own Brand Center of Excellence and across business units, the Manager of Business Growth—Sysco Brands will manage critical strategic business initiatives, conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis to evaluate growth channels, both within existing customers and in new markets. The manager will research emerging solutions and collaborate with internal stakeholders to determine business rationale for adoption, potential value, and tradeoffs associated with implementation. In addition, they will play a driving role in shaping and deploying key category growth strategies with partnership from various stakeholders; requiring leadership, discretionary judgement, coordination and influence across departments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
5+ years of experience in an analytical and strategic business role, with escalating levels of leadership and responsibility
Must have skillset with modeling, strategic thinking and growth planning experience, including program management experience
Strong interpersonal, leadership, communication, and presentation skills
Proven experience to get work done in a complex matrix organization
Ability to think strategically and tactically from customer perspective with little supervision
Ability to structure unique problems and lead cross-functional teams in a way that enables the organization to make significant progress quickly
Strong ability to manage ambiguity and guide the organization through it towards clear and decisive action plans
Ability to understand Growth Mindset and Financial Acumen (i.e. P&L)
Strong project leadership and management
Analytic and problem-solving skills
Proven ability to establish credibility, to work across boundaries and lead through influence
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Self-starter with a strong ability to lead and develop a new team
Professional attitude, service orientation, strong work ethic; superb team player
Excels in nebulous environments where the path to address a problem is not always clear or direct
Approaches every problem with an outside-in perspective first and does not allow the status quo to influence your analysis
Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
English Required

Nice To Haves

master’s preferred
Minimum of 5+ experience in food service and B2B industries preferred
Experience with change management a plus

Responsibilities

Accountable within their scope of Business Centers programs to conduct deep dive data and performance analytics and provide creativity, and structured thinking / decision making to develop business plans/cases to support Own Brand portfolio growth and conversions.
Own the program management and execution for all workstreams needed to execute against aligned upon growth strategy(ies) including defining workstreams, identifying timelines, sequencing work, capturing dependencies, managing issue resolution and trading off priorities as needed to execute the business strategy. The scope of work, influence and outcomes is similar to the Sr. Manager, with the exception that this role will be accountable for fewer Business Centers programs; requiring ability to independently exercise discretion and influence (up, down, laterally) across the organization.
Support other Business Centers core programs (as needed) within their scope in cultivating key messages and communications for varying audiences, including progress updates for executive audiences.
Accountable within their scope of Business Centers programs for identifying, researching and defining future growth strategies across existing customers and/or in new markets; leveraging current capabilities or through the creation of new ones.