Senior Director, Category Management

Sysco • Salinas, CA

176d

About The Position

Sysco is a Multibillion-dollar E-commerce, B to B food service business and the global leader in selling, marketing, and supplying food products to restaurants, businesses, health care locations, education, travel and food service management around the world. We do business in over 90 countries internationally and this role will bring customer centric solutions to the markets for Sysco. Our Purpose is to connect the world to share food and care for one another. We define our mission at Sysco as delivering success for our customers through leading products, service, and people. Sysco is embarking on a bold and exciting transformational journey to become the most customer centric organization globally. They are committed to supporting growth objectives and accelerating transformation across Sysco. To achieve this objective, Sysco is transforming merchandising to deliver on our customers' new, more digitally enabled expectations of service. This team will support the development and execution of multiyear, product-focused strategic business plans for new areas of growth, as well as sharing best practices with Sysco's global merchandising teams. The Senior Director, Category Management leadership role is responsible for the Development, planning and execution of center-led merchandising category activities including assortment strategy, supplier relationships, sourcing, profits & losses, informing pricing and promotional strategy, and field execution. The position is responsible for leading and driving the profitable growth of the merchandising categories up to and including designing and implementing the category management processes and approaches for driving sales and gross profit improvement leveraging our product portfolio.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in lieu of degree sufficient to successfully perform essential job functions required.
• 9+ years management/professional experience required.
• Significant category management, merchandising and/or operations experience within a retail, wholesale or distribution environment preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; lets data drive action.
• Possesses a deep understanding and demonstrated capability for strategic planning, process design, portfolio management, and execution.

Nice To Haves

• 10+ years management/professional experience required.
• Multi-functional field experience, GSC merchandising experience.
• P&L ownership.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead strategic planning and execution across merchandising functions to drive high priority commercial initiatives.
• Maintain a dynamic portfolio of sales and GP$ growth opportunities, proactively identifying, sizing, and prioritizing new initiatives.
• Be accountable to P&L performance versus plan for a discrete portion of Sysco's USBL business.
• Deliver goals in PGM, Assortment, Sustainability, and other key initiatives.
• Lead and promote the Partnership Growth Management Process to support sales and share growth while delivering leveraged gross profit growth.
• Collect and synthesize insights from different sources to develop category strategies.
• Develop strategies to fully leverage third party sales teams to execute Sysco's assortment and growth strategies.
• Support negotiations with suppliers and engage merchandising and sales leadership to address issues and risks.
• Define scope, investigate and prioritize Gross Profit recovery efforts for a defined group of opportunity levers.
• Engage with key cross-functional stakeholders to facilitate national customers in purchasing a more common assortment.
• Develop pricing strategy to drive market share and incremental profit opportunities.
• Lead and develop the culture of an empowered team that is aligned to achieving goals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree