Vice President, Merchandising

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Deliver corporate-level leadership for merchandising by overseeing product assortment, product development, national pricing routines, and management.

• Collaborate with regional leaders, sales, merchandising, and finance teams across SSMG & USBL to enhance assortment revenue and margin outcomes.

• Implement pricing and margin routines while conducting analyses to offer strategic recommendations.

• Customize market strategies for SSMG & USBL to maximize revenue and margin.

• Assess SSMG contracts, pricing structures, and margins.

• Generate and proactively share insights to support local, national, and internal sales growth strategies.

• Advance commercialization initiatives.

• Oversee the product lifecycle by leading the merchandising team.

• Identify internal and external conversion opportunities.

• Develop demand planning capabilities.

• Direct SKU rationalization, standardization, and cleanup efforts.

• Establish standards for protein product capabilities across all regions.

• Collaborate with SSMG & USBL on new product introductions and define product capabilities.

• Create and implement co-pack/retail strategies (Pro-Link).

• Assess the RTE strategy.

• Manage sourcing strategy for SSMG with a spend exceeding $2.5 billion.

• Work closely with the GSC team on merchandising initiatives.

• Specify consistent national/local assortment and good/better/best category management.

• Develop sourcing strategies for aggregated purchases, lower COGS, and uniformity for national clients.

• Formulate sourcing strategies that include suspended fresh/frozen products.

• Aggregate demand for both local and national business to leverage scale effectively.

• Streamline SKUs and enhance descriptions and images.

• Standardize costing and establish national pricing for USBL/CBL.

• Manage margins, prevent leakage, and secure market gains.

• Identify internal product conversion opportunities.

• Build product capabilities across poultry, seafood, RTC, and grinds.

• Innovate new products and capabilities.

• Oversee national and local pricing strategies.

• Formulate a commercial sales strategy for USBL in alignment with sales enablement and merchandising.

• Monitor market trends to enhance market share.

• Negotiate and oversee local-level programs.

• Manage projections and budgets.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree.

• Expertise in protein.

• 15+ years of progressive experience in Merchandising or Retail Consulting, or senior leadership positions within the meat industry.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Excellent analytical capabilities.

• Experience in managing local OpCo assortment to address sales demands and support category growth initiatives.

• Ability to monitor the market to boost market share.

• Capability to negotiate and manage local-level programs.

• Experience in 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.

• Information regarding Sysco benefits can be found at https://SyscoBenefits.com.

• Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.