Product Manager - Poultry

Sysco

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Product Manager manages a set of product categories within the business center. He or she leads the internal processes for core assortment steady-state changes, issue resolution involving internal and external stakeholders (e.g. OpCos, Suppliers, Customers). This will include product training, product mix analysis, promotional and price negotiations, and the development and marketing of new items. He or she will perform ongoing product evaluations to ensure specification adherence and awareness of items in the marketplace.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree preferred or an equivalent combination of education and Sysco merchandising, pricing and/or customer service experience or equivalent combination of education and foodservice industry experience.
The candidate must possess mid-level Microsoft Excels skill sets, specifically V lookups, manipulating pivot tables, filtering and sorting functions as well as knowledge of with internal systems such as AS240, RME, Sysco Intranet, and Business Objects

Nice To Haves

A bachelor's degree in animal sciences is preferred.

Responsibilities

Product Pricing Management
Advises and gives direction toward new item set-up and creates complete system maintenance as required
Determine and execute, as needed, enhancements and changes to the current product pricing structure
Determines and executes strategies for product packaging needs and changes within the category
Maintains SRDT and completes change forms
Is responsible for ongoing product evaluations and documentation to ensure compliance and maintain awareness of trends, new items, and innovation
Category Management and Product Development
Follows the 6-Step Category Management Process to drive sales growth, deliver Value, Variety, and Innovation to the marketplace while maximizing efficiency and lowering operational costs
Financial Management and Accountability
Gathers and contributes input for plan creation
Ensures pricing is accurate and intervenes and corrects when needed
Responsible for all corporate-managed supplier AR/AP and pricing/service-related issues.
Supplier Management
Attend monthly/quarterly supplier business reviews.
Enhance supplier relations through innovation, sales growth, and issue resolution.
Leads the internal processes for core assortment steady-state changes and changes to core suppliers ship points, per the direction of the Category Leadership; effectively work with key stakeholder groups for successful implementation.
Customer Engagement
Conducts Sales initiated presentations and resources to support and enable profitable, sustainable sales growth.
Creates and delivers solutions to address customer needs through product, price and optimal assortment.
Enterprise Support
Contributes to the creation and training of field-ready product knowledge and sales enabling tools.
Provides operation company (OpCo) Sales Meeting and event assistance when called upon.
Additional tasks as required to achieve business results.