Product Manager - Merchandising

Albertsons Company Inc. • Pleasanton, CA

43d

About The Position

The Merchant Category Strategy Product Team is seeking a Product Manager to lead initiatives that optimize category performance, enhance merchant decision-making, and drive strategic growth across our merchandising ecosystem. This role will focus on building tools and capabilities that empower merchants with data-driven insights, streamline category planning, to reflect merchant strategy.

Requirements

• 7-10 years in merchandising, trade promotions, category management, or CPG commercial strategy, with direct involvement in allowance, cost, and promotional planning.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in business, Economics, Marketing, Data Science, Management sciences, Business Administration.
• Hands-on experience with retailer and CPG data platforms (Circana, Nielsen, Symphony, or equivalent).
• Strong functional understanding of retail pricing, promotion mechanics, space & display execution, and vendor negotiations.
• Demonstrated ability to work with both merchant operators and technical teams to ensure solutions reflect practical workflows.
• Track record of turning data analysis into actionable insights that shaped trade or merchandising decisions.
• Demonstrates strong analytical and critical thinking skills to identify root causes, evaluate complex data, and develop practical solutions.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to credibly engage at all levels - from merchants and department specialists to technical teams and executives.

Responsibilities

• Champion the needs of customers, merchants, vendors, business teams, and stakeholders throughout the product development cycle, ensuring that what is delivered meets user needs and enables better merchandising decision making.
• Ability to operate in areas of uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Partner with merchants and CPG teams to evaluate allowances, costs, promotions, and display/space plans, ensuring strategies are grounded in real trade practices.
• Use Circana, Nielsen, Symphony, and retailer monetization platforms to curate market trends, develop hypotheses, and test strategies for price, promo, and display planning.
• Act as a functional sense-check for pricing intelligence solutions - ensuring outputs align with what makes sense in the aisle, in negotiations, and in retail execution.
• Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to translate merchandising requirements into scoped technical solutions, providing ongoing guidance and validation.
• Drive hypothesis development and validation with merchants, using transaction data, competitive benchmarks, and market share analysis.
• Lead cross-functional working sessions to align trade partners, merchants, and analysts around recommendations and scenarios.
• Monitor performance against goals such as trade ROI, sales lift, basket mix, and profitability, sharing insights back to stakeholders.
• Responsible for communicating product solutions and benefits to customers and stakeholders; including knowledge transfer and training for on-going management of features.
• Flexible Career Path: Be prepared to adapt and expand into other areas of the retail domain over time, utilizing your core trade promotion expertise as a foundation for future growth within the company.

Benefits

• Competitive wages paid weekly
• Associate discounts
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
• Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
• An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Food and Beverage Retailers
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees