Produce Category Strategist

3 weeks ago


Bronx, New York, United States FreshDirect Full time

Job Summary


The FreshDirect team is seeking a skilled Produce Category Strategist to join our dynamic grocery retail organization. As a key member of our produce merchandising team, you will play a vital role in driving profitable sales and ensuring accurate promotional activities across our produce categories.


In this exciting position, you will oversee vendor relationships, analyze data for profitable sales, monitor pricing plans, and lead product selection for the category. Your exceptional attention to detail, analytical skills, and ability to manage mid-sized projects will be invaluable assets to our team.


A strong understanding of grocery retail, eCommerce, or related industries, combined with 2-5 years of experience in a similar role, is essential for success in this position. If you are passionate about produce and have a keen eye for opportunity gaps, we encourage you to apply.


About FreshDirect


FreshDirect is a forward-thinking company that thrives on teamwork and innovation. Our state-of-the-art facility creates an environment for growth and development, offering comprehensive benefits, workplace extras, and direct relationships with suppliers.


We offer a competitive salary range of $70,000 - $90,000 annually, depending on experience, plus a range of benefits, including health insurance, retirement savings, and paid time off. Our work environment is fast-paced and ever-changing, but we're always looking for individuals who share our passion for food and commitment to excellence.


Key Responsibilities


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  • Supports achievement of category strategies and initiatives through relationship management of vendors, data collection, and analysis.">
  • Leverages data to drive profitable sales.">
  • Monitors performance of base and promotional pricing plans.">
  • Collaborates with Pricing and Site Merchandising teams to ensure promotional strategies drive awareness, trial, and repeat in the category.">
  • Detects, researches, and corrects data errors within the product hierarchy.">
  • Ensures accuracy and alignment to category and business strategy for promotional activity.">
  • Performs category reviews and other assessments related to assortment decisions, driving relevant assortment choices to maximize competitive advantage in the market and drive category performance.">
  • Creates category deep dives to understand opportunity gaps and performance vs. ROM, providing recommendations and executing on assortment gap closures.">
  • Evaluates/summarizes potential sales gain/loss on new items/deletes for category reset.">
  • Prepares pre/post-reset reports to recap changes to categories and measure performance.">
  • Assists with site merchandising planning, assortment decisions, cost negotiations, promotional planning, and product and program development.">
  • Responsible for accuracy and validation of vendor-submitted deals.">
  • Works closely with Operations to prevent, track, and fix short and longer-term challenges.">
  • Manages SKU creation projects, including data collection, entry, and form submission.">
  • Daily purchase order reconciliation of product received vs ordered, addressing discrepancies, and liaising with Receiving, vendors, and Accounts Payable.">
  • May include some purchasing.">
  • Writes and manages purchase orders for vendors.">
  • Maintains and updates SAP source and requisition configuration based on vendor settings.">
  • Follows up with vendors and merchant teams on product deliveries, out of stock issues, and pricing issues.">
  • Schedules and resolves goods pickups, returns, and credits with vendors and accounting departments.">
  • Validates vendor invoices to ensure correct purchasing price and quantities are issued.">
  • Works with warehouse teams to ensure products are received timely and accurately, and troubleshoots delivery and receiving issues.


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