Vice President, Merchandising

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🔥 13 hours ago

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $152.3k - $253.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Sysco

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1969

📦 Logistics

🏥 Healthcare

🏨 Hospitality

Logistics • Healthcare • Hospitality

Sysco is a global leader in selling, marketing, and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments, and other customers who prepare meals away from home. The company's extensive product portfolio also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With a talented workforce of over 76,000 colleagues, Sysco operates 340 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2024, Sysco generated sales of more than $78 billion. The company actively engages in sustainability efforts, partnering with food banks and advocating for farm-to-table initiatives. Sysco's mission is to support diverse communities, fight hunger, and be a trusted business partner by delivering quality products and innovative solutions.

📋 Description

• Provide corporate-level leadership for merchandising through product assortment, product development, national pricing routines and management • Partner with region leaders, sales, merchandising, and finance across SSMG & USBL to optimize assortment revenue and margin results • Embed pricing and margin routines and conduct analysis to provide strategic recommendations • Tailor market strategies across SSMG & USBL to optimize revenue and margin • Review SSMG contracts, pricing, and margin • Develop and proactively provide insight to support local, national, and internal sales growth strategies • Improve commercialization initiatives • Own the product lifecycle through leadership of the merchandising team • Capture internal and external conversion opportunities • Build demand planning capabilities • Lead SKU rationalization, standardization, and cleanup • Create standards for protein product capabilities across all regions • Work with SSMG & USBL on new products and establish product capabilities • Develop and implement co-pack/retail strategies (Pro-Link) • Evaluate RTE strategy • Own sourcing strategy for SSMG over $2.5 billion in spend • Work closely with the GSC team on merchandising • Define consistent national/local assortment and good/better/best category management • Build sourcing strategies for aggregated buys, lower COGS, and consistency for national customers • Develop sourcing strategies including suspended fresh/frozen • Aggregate demand for local and national business to leverage scale • Reduce SKUs and improve descriptions and images • Standardize costing and national pricing for USBL/CBL • Manage margins, eliminate leakage, and capture market gains • Capture internal product conversion opportunities • Build product capabilities across poultry, seafood, RTC, and grinds • Develop new products and capabilities • Manage national and local pricing • Develop commercial sales strategy for USBL aligned with sales enablement and merchandising • Monitor the market to increase market share • Negotiate and manage local-level programs • Manage projections and budgets

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree • Protein expertise • 15+ years of progressive experience in Merchandising or Retail Consulting, or senior leadership roles in the meat industry • Proficient in Microsoft Office • Effective written/oral communication skills • Strong analytical skills • Experience managing local OpCo assortment to meet sales demands and execute and support category growth initiatives • Ability to monitor market to increase market share • Ability to negotiate and manage local level programs • Projection and budget management • Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Eligibility to participate in the Company's Incentive Plan • Sysco benefits information provided at https://SyscoBenefits.com • Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities