Position SummaryResponsible for collaborating with Fresh Category Management leadership team in the implementation of a selling organization culture with a consumer-centric focus through Pricing strategy execution. Create and execute strategic and tactical plans that will deliver budgeted margin, sales, and shrink metrics. Work collaboratively with internal and external business partners to ensure efficient and accurate execution of pricing in support of banner strategy and financial budgets. Responsible for day to day leadership of the fresh pricing analysts and assistants, workload planning and daily execution of both base price and promotional plans. Responsible for decisions relating to margin management and promotional planning within banner.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities - Provide day to day direction for implementation and support of strategies and initiatives of all fresh pricing.
- Work collaboratively across departments to meet budgeted key performance metrics of Sales, Margin and Shrink related to price and promotion execution.
- Develop strategic executions of pricing process supporting Banner strategy.
- Responsible for all management aspects of Fresh Pricing to include:
- Work collaboratively with category, replenishment, merchandising, and shrink to ensure effective and accurate workflow and communication of banner strategy.
- Provide expertise to business partners and facilitate communication between category management, replenishment, and banner merchandising
- Deliver reporting of financial results and recommendations for continued optimization
- Evaluate effectiveness of pricing tactics and strategies employed to determine need for changes in rulesets and guidelines used in analysis of programs to better support financial goals and banner strategies
- Collaborate with cross functional peers to actively seek out new opportunities in an effort to maximize organizational alignment and achieve optimal program performance.
- Provide leadership that will motivate employees and function as an effective promoter of change and growth.
- Provide support for the implementation of a continuous improvement culture
- Lead and/or serve as a member of key teams and committees as needed
- Responsible for the development of associates
Basic Qualifications & Preferred Qualifications- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
- Minimum of 8 years combined experience in retail, merchandising, category, pricing, logistics, supply chain, procurement, and distribution
- Strong financial planning and budgeting experience
- Cross-functional leadership experience with a demonstrated ability to build cross-functional teams
- Demonstrated management expertise
- Demonstrated relationship management experience with vendors, brokers and third party consultants
- Seasoned level of knowledge for company, business and industry practices
- Master of Business Administration Degree (MBA)
Skills and Abilities - Ability to manage day to day activity in support of identified business area and functional area strategies
- Ability to influence organizational alignment across multiple business areas
- Ability to take an educated risk with implementing programs that support consumer demands.
- Ability to think innovatively
- Demonstrate a personal acceptance of change and the ability to adapt and drive change
- Demonstrated ability to implement and analyze retail business using consumer insights and analyzing trends.
- Active listener with an ability to build trust across varying levels of the organization
- High degree of credibility and the ability to work with and through all levels of management
- Excellent organizational, planning, influence, communication and presentation skills
- Self-motivated and persuasive in presenting and selling ideas and executing their implementation
