Category Development Manager Grocery Hybrid Charlotte
Overview
Foodbuy seeks a Category Development Manager hybrid in Charlotte to lead grocery category strategy. You will own category planning deliver strong financial results and foster supplier relationships across hospitality restaurant healthcare education entertainment gaming sectors.
What You'll Do11
- 1Own and drive category strategy delivering strong financial results improvement opportunities and recommendations
- 2Prepare analyses communicate sourcing trends and present results
- 3Conduct system catalog clean-up audits to ensure mapping accuracy
- 4Research current state and future needs analyze market trends and identify continuous improvement opportunities
- 5Participate in vendor management performance against contract and resolve constraints
- 6Ensure system data integrity category data needs liaison with cross-functional groups for accurate pricing and volume allowances
- 7Manage business relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers including ownership updates and sharing end-user feedback
- 8Own required internal processes such as budgeting contract attributes benchmarking pricing and product recommendations
- 9Present findings to senior leadership and drive strategic initiatives
- 10Collaborate with marketing and operations to align category offerings with client needs
- 11Drive cost optimization through data-driven decision making
Requirements11
- 15+ years building ETL pipelines with Spark and Airflow
- 24 years experience in supply chain category finance or ESG
- 3Strong negotiations experience
- 4Presentation experience
- 5Ability to extract insights from complex data sets using advanced Excel skills
- 6Influence through direct and indirect teams
- 7High proficiency with Microsoft Excel Word and PowerPoint
- 8Up to 5% travel annually
- 9Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- 10Minimum of 4 years’ experience in supply chain category finance or ESG
- 11Knowledge of budgets and forecasting
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