"Join our team to manage P&L accountability for Food Service and Dispensed Beverages. You'll support pricing, logistics, and vendor negotiations while collaborating with internal teams to drive business decisions and optimize product offerings."

Starting pay: $58K/ year + DOE and bonus.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Own the P&L accountability for categories within the Food Service and Dispensed Beverages departments
• Perform and provide analysis to predict trends in product positioning, product selection, and pricing and logistics of product distribution
• Support Category Managers with vendor negotiations, contracts, PriceBook, rebate analysis and dead-net costing
• Aid Category Managers with tasks and duties related to third-party distribution and the general supply chain/out of stocks including weekly Stores Not Selling reporting for operational use
• Work with Customer Research group to facilitate testing and initiatives in MarketDial for Product, Pricing, Promotions and Placement and other research initiatives as assigned
• Work with IT team and 3^rd party data vendors to ensure data flows seamlessly and integrally

Qualifications:  Education  (Add the degree level and applicable certifications that are preferred)

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field preferred, such as Marketing or Business

Qualifications:  Experience

• 1+ year of product marketing or related experience
• Knowledge of Merchandising and Retailing
• Analytical skills with experience in MS Office Suite products including Excel and PowerPoint
• Demonstrated ability to investigate and weigh alternatives and select appropriate course of action, driving activity to measurable results
• Worked with others to achieve shared goals while taking responsibility for individual actions achieving consistent results
• The ability to influence others outside of your immediate space
• Experience leveraging others appropriately and overcoming unexpected obstacles while utilizing appropriate metrics to measure progress
• A record of anticipating customer needs and giving high priority to customer satisfaction and service

Qualifications:  Team Member Competencies

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, including strong listening skills
• Practice operating independently without the need for continuous oversight or direction
• Proven ability to effectively prioritize and balance competing needs
• A history of taking the initiative to identify and solve work-related problems
• Experience in exercising initiative and sound judgment in decision-making

Duties and responsibilities, as required by business necessity may be added, deleted, or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing.  Scheduling and shift assignments and work location may be changed at any time, as required by business necessity.