Senior Manager, Business Growth - Sysco Brands

Sysco

6d•$136,400 - $227,400•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager of Business Growth—Sysco Brands contributes to designing and executing 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, this role conducts quantitative and qualitative analysis to evaluate growth channels among existing customers and in new markets. The role researches emerging solutions and partners with internal stakeholders to assess the business rationale, potential value, and implementation tradeoffs. It also helps shape the process and leads global, cross-company deployment of key growth strategies in partnership with stakeholders. This Houston-based role combines in-office work, work-from-home time, and travel for team connectivity or to support growth initiative execution. Travel is up to 25%.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
8–10+ years of experience in an analytical and strategic business role, with increasing levels of leadership and responsibility.
Experience with modeling, strategic thinking, growth planning, and program management.
Strong interpersonal, leadership, communication, and presentation skills.
Ability to get work done in a complex matrix organization.
Ability to think strategically and tactically from the customer perspective.
Ability to structure unique problems and lead cross-functional teams to enable significant organizational progress quickly.
Ability to manage ambiguity and guide the organization toward clear, decisive action plans.
Ability to understand P&L.
Strong project leadership and management background.
Experience with change management.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Ability to establish credibility and influence executive-level stakeholders, work across organizational boundaries, and lead through influence.
Strong communication and collaboration skills; able to operate effectively and influence others in a matrix organization.
Excellent pattern recognition and predictive modeling skills.
Self-starter with the ability to lead and develop a new team.
Experience in a startup-like environment and ability to anticipate organizational needs, plan accordingly, and direct a team toward quick wins and long-term success.
Professional attitude, service orientation, strong work ethic, and ability to work as a team player.
Ability to excel in ambiguous environments where the path to a solution is unclear.
Outside-in perspective when analyzing problems, without allowing the status quo to influence analysis.
Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

MBA preferred.
Experience in food service and B2B industries preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

Support the Senior Director and Director with data and analytics, creativity, and structured decision-making to develop business cases for Own Brand portfolio growth.
Support the Director in identifying, researching, and defining future growth strategies for existing customers and/or new markets, using current capabilities or creating new ones.
Support the Director in developing key messages and communications for different audiences, including progress updates for executives.
Own program management for workstreams required to execute agreed-upon growth strategies, including defining workstreams, timelines, sequencing, dependencies, issue resolution, and priority tradeoffs.