Senior Program Manager, Category Development

6 days ago

Austin, Texas, United States Whole Foods Market IP, L.P. Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Merchandising Manager, Assortment Planning to join our team at Whole Foods Market IP, L.P. This is a critical role that will serve as a subject matter expert for Assortment Planning Capability Development in support of our company's strategic goals.

Key Responsibilities
  • Merchandising Subject Matter Expert: Serve as a thought leader and subject matter expert to represent business needs across identified categories.
  • Process Design and Tool Development: Represent Merchandising business needs through process design, tool development, tool testing, and success criteria assessment.
  • Onboarding Support: Serve as onboarding support SME for initial Category Merchant tool testing efforts.
  • Assortment Capabilities Development: Support the development, execution, and iteration of Assortment Capabilities and process at Whole Foods Market.
  • Strategic Roadmap: Contribute to the strategic roadmap to deliver value through unparalleled and industry-leading capabilities.
  • Business Partnership: Collaborate with business partners across WFM and Amazon to represent business needs and develop the long-term value creation expansion roadmap.
  • Project Ownership: Own specific capability project completion that ladder up to total program success.
  • Risk Management: Identify and escalate project risks, opportunities, and contingency plans.
  • Leadership Updates: Contribute to regular Merchandising leadership and E-Team Business Updates.
  • Training and Onboarding: Support content creation for training and onboarding practices for end users.
  • Change Agent: Serve as a change agent to support end-user adoption during training sessions.
  • Thought Leadership: Serve as a thought-leader within the broader organization.
  • Alignment and Partnership: Ensure alignment between multiple projects and work streams. Earn trust, establish credibility, and build partnerships with leaders across the organization.
  • Data-Driven Decision Making: Act as an agent of change, championing a data-driven approach for decision making, focused on assortment and item lifecycle.
  • Subject Matter Expertise: Act as a subject matter expert for Assortment capabilities.
Qualifications
  • Education and Experience: BA/BS degree and 6-8 years' relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
  • Category Merchant Experience: Category Merchant experience or relevant enterprise support experience.
  • Technical Skills: Must have advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and ability to create dynamic reporting.
  • Business Acumen: Strong familiarity with merchandising, store operations, distribution, and marketing.
  • Strategic Thinking: Proven ability to incorporate merchandising experience and diverse business needs into capability development.
  • Communication and Collaboration: Proven experience synthesizing and dispersing information into effective strategies and innovative insights, translating complex ideas into simple, actionable recommendations.
  • Business Review and Stakeholder Alignment: Proven experience doing business reviews and aligning stakeholders from different business units at a large enterprise.
  • Initiative Leadership: Ability to autonomously structure, plan, and lead initiatives to successful outcomes that ladder up to project goals.
  • Ambiguity Navigation: Expertly navigates through ambiguity given a blend of experience, input, and intuition.
  • Change Management: Drives change by continuously improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the Store Level Customer Centricity Program.
  • Workload Management: Proven ability to work under pressure, prioritize work, and balance a portfolio of programs.
  • Decision Making: Applies experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals with a wide degree of creativity.
  • Leadership and Facilitation: Able to facilitate and/or lead the work of others.
  • Retail Software Solutions: Skilled in the implementation and use of various retail software solutions.
  • Microsoft Office: Advanced to expert skills in Microsoft Office applications.
  • Subject Matter Expertise: Viewed as subject matter expert and thought leader within category merchant organization.
  • Independent Decision Making: Leverages skill set and exemplary judgment to make independent business decisions and deliver results.
  • Communication: Effectively presents to a wide range of audiences (TMs, peers, leadership, suppliers), tailoring communication to audience needs.
Company Overview

At Whole Foods Market, we provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all Team Members and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. We hire and promote individuals solely based on qualifications for the position to be filled and business needs.

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