About Grocery Outlet: Our Mission: Touching lives for the better Our Vision: Touching lives by being the first choice for bargain-minded consumers in the U.S. Our Values & Behaviors: Achievement, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Family, Fun, Integrity & Service About the Team: Our GO Brand team's mission is to create a distinctive value driven private label program to WOW our existing customers with everyday available value, unique offerings and seasonal solutions to further enhance our in-store treasure hunt experience.
We strategically identify white space opportunities for GO Brands to add value, analyzing data, partnering with internal stakeholders and external suppliers, to make key strategic decisions for the GO Brands portfolio.
Our passion and energy promote a creative and growth-oriented environment within the unique culture of Grocery Outlet.
The members of our team are resourceful, critical thinkers that pride themselves on integrity, efficiency, and collaboration.
We utilize best-in-class sourcing practices to uncover hidden value in our business and are relentless at executing a flawless commercialization process.
We work closely with our Independent Operators as well as our Purchasing and Planning teams to complement our existing opportunistic buying strategy while enhancing our existing ongoing assortment.
About the Role: This specific role will have primary responsibilities of managing our GO Brands portfolio for an identified group of categories, managing the product lifecycle management and P&L performance of these items, including leading the sourcing, product development and commercialization of these items.
This dynamic individual is responsible for developing a category roadmap based on prioritized business opportunities, partnering with key stakeholders, and then executing that roadmap through flawless commercialization execution.
This role is a unique opportunity to join a new team chartered with developing the foundation and future of sourcing and GO Brands at Grocery Outlet.Reports to the GO Brands Product Director and is a new role to Grocery Outlet.
Responsibilities Include: Develop and then implement short, medium, and long-term category management plans and category sourcing strategies across the business for specific GO Brands categories.
Conduct industry analyses and competitive assessments, modeling opportunities to prioritize white space sales and/or margin opportunities that would drive incremental value to the company.
Lead and manage the RFP process for identified GO Brands categories, partnering with key business owners from start to finish, identifying capable supplier partners, performing market research and benchmarking, and managing the supplier communication process.
Lead contract and business term negotiations with suppliers by utilizing a robust strategic sourcing process, focused on should-costs, leveraging advanced scenario modeling, design to value thinking and vertical interference concepts.
Develop business recommendations and present them to business leaders for decision-making, including the Purchasing Leadership Team and our Independent Operators network.
Execute legal contracts with awarded suppliers, partnering with the Grocery Outlet legal team on all legal indemnifications and business terms and conditions.
Monitor supplier performance, assessing supplier service levels, understanding capacity planning, reviewing innovation pipelines, and pressing for continuous cost improvements.
Perform ad hoc category or business analysis and support for stakeholders across the company, becoming a key thought partner with the business.
Create and commercialize new GO products, collaborating with suppliers to ensure products are meeting targeted quality expectations and delivering excellent value to our shoppers and stores.
Build financial decks to summarize GO Brands category performance, cost analysis, and other key financial metrics, including collaborating with finance, purchasing and strategy teams.
Utilize clear and insightful data visualizations to build reports and dashboards that facilitate data-driven decision-making across the GO Brands and Purchasing departments Provide input to the GO Brands design agency towards a packaging design solution for each responsible category, considering category activity and private label competitive positioning.
Review and approve label claim documentation, quality certifications, specifications, plant audit reports, certificates of insurance and other legal or regulatory documents to manage risk for the company.
Generate sales and marketing content for planned digital marketing events, including Ads, seasonal events, promotional activities, industry activation and ad hoc Independent Operator needs.
Effectively manage the GO Brands portfolio within assigned departments to ensure comp sales growth and enhanced margin performance while continuing to offer value to our shoppers.
About The Pay: Base Salary Range: $110,000 - $130,000 Annually Annual Bonus Program Equity 401(k) Profit Sharing Medical, Dental, Vision & More!
Final compensation will be determined based upon experience and skills and may vary based on location.
About You: Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Food Science, Economics or Supply Chain.
MBA preferred.
10+ years of analytical experience - takes data driven approach to problems with an ability to quickly model financial impacts and identify opportunities.
Advanced Excel skills required.
7+ years of private label, sourcing and/or product commercialization experience across multiple consumable product categories.
Expertise in all aspects of the commercialization process of private label, including legal, quality, regulatory and print production, with experience in grocery retail highly preferred.
Action-oriented, self-starter with courage to lead change, and implement operational improvements.
Must be familiar with clean-sheeting, should-cost modeling, tolling and developing financial models to reverse engineer the total costs of ownership for consumer-packaged goods.
Knowledgeable of category industry activities and risks, including regulatory restrictions and needs, certification standards, brand positioning, claim values and shopper behavior drivers.
Collaborative worker, quick to build trusted relationships with internal and external business partners.
Possess the ability to multi-task, prioritize, work independently and keep a high level of focus.
Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, especially in front of peers and executive audiences.
Strong PowerPoint skills required.
Experience working within a mainframe ERP system a plus as well as multiple data sources.