Manager, Private Label

Grainger Businesses • Lake Forest, IL

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Manager, Private Label Strategy plays a critical part in ensuring Grainger’s product assortment offers worldclass private branded products to our customers. You will be directly accountable for hundreds of thousands of existing SKUs and the strategic expansion of new private label opportunities. With a strong focus on the customer experience, you will lead product quality assurance at cost advantage efforts across our processes, while identifying the next strategic growth opportunities. Leveraging your expertise in industry best practices, customer and product knowledge, you will help elevate Grainger's private label assortment to new levels of excellence.

You will report to the Manager or Senior Mgr, Private Label Strategy.

This is a hybrid position that is based in Lake Forest or Chicago.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required
• 5+ years experience managing product data, inclusive of 2+ years of overseeing a team
• Experience applying Continuous Improvement and change management strategies to support successful implementations/adoption of new tools or processes
• Experience with Product Information Management (PIM) technology, data management strategies, informing decisions and merchandising experiences
• Experience communicating with all levels of the organization, including senior leadership

Responsibilities

• Oversee the team responsible for the product quality, completeness and timely implementation of Grainger's full scope of deliverables to the business and our customers.
• Oversees, coaches and manages the team responsible for ensuring the deliverables are completed based on project plans and service-level agreements.
• Responsible for resolving escalated complex product data issues through identifying root cause and aligning with stakeholders on solutions.
• Provide thought leadership to business partners and communicate the impact of strategies as part of key merchandising activities such as category review and new product additions • Responsible for continuously improving processes and ensuring successful change management.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
• 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager