Manager, Business Growth—Sysco Brands

Sysco Corp.; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sysco Corp. in Houston seeks a Manager of Business Growth—Sysco Brands to design and execute long-term strategies that drive profitable growth of the Own Brand portfolio.

You will collaborate with the Own Brand Center of Excellence and across business units to evaluate growth channels and determine business rationale for adoption. The role requires leadership, discretionary judgement, and influence to steer multiple workstreams, research emerging solutions, and shape key category growth

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree; master’s preferred.
• 5+ years in analytical/strategic business roles with leadership.
• Modeling, strategic thinking, and growth planning experience.

Responsibilities

• Conduct deep-dive data and performance analytics to support growth and conversions.
• Own program management and execution across growth workstreams and timelines.
• Develop key messages and communications for executives and stakeholders.
• Identify, research, and define future growth strategies across customers or new markets.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Communication

Collaboration

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Proactive / self-starter

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's preferred

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Summary:

The Manager of Business Growth—Sysco Brands will be a key contributor to the design and execution of long-term strategies to drive profitable growth of Sysco’s Own Brand product portfolio. Working with the Own Brand Center of Excellence and across business units, the Manager of Business Growth—Sysco Brands will manage critical strategic business initiatives, conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis to evaluate growth channels, both within existing customers and in new markets. The manager will research emerging solutions and collaborate with internal stakeholders to determine business rationale for adoption, potential value, and tradeoffs associated with implementation. In addition, they will play a driving role in shaping and deploying key category growth strategies with partnership from various stakeholders; requiring leadership, discretionary judgement, coordination and influence across departments.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Accountable within their scope of Business Centers programs to conduct deep dive data and performance analytics and provide creativity, and structured thinking / decision making to develop business plans/cases to support Own Brand portfolio growth and conversions.
• Own the program management and execution for all workstreams needed to execute against aligned upon growth strategy(ies) including defining workstreams, identifying timelines, sequencing work, capturing dependencies, managing issue resolution and trading off priorities as needed to execute the business strategy. The scope of work, influence and outcomes is similar to the Sr. Manager, with the exception that this role will be accountable for fewer Business Centers programs; requiring ability to independently exercise discretion and influence (up, down, laterally) across the organization. .
• Support other Business Centers core programs (as needed) within their scope in cultivating key messages and communications for varying audiences, including progress updates for executive audiences.
• Accountable within their scope of Business Centers programs for identifying, researching and defining future growth strategies across existing customers and/or in new markets; leveraging current capabilities or through the creation of new ones

Education Required:

Bachelor’s degree; master’s preferred

Experience Required:

• 5+ years of experience in an analytical and strategic business role, with escalating levels of leadership and responsibility
• Must have skillset with modeling, strategic thinking and growth planning experience, including program management experience

Experience Preferred:

Minimum of 5+ experience in food service and B2B industries preferred

Technical Skills and Abilities:

• Strong interpersonal, leadership, communication, and presentation skills
• Proven experience to get work done in a complex matrix organization
• Ability to think strategically and tactically from customer perspective with little supervision
• Ability to structure unique problems and lead cross-functional teams in a way that enables the organization to make significant progress quickly
• Strong ability to manage ambiguity and guide the organization through it towards clear and decisive action plans
• Ability to understand Growth Mindset and Financial Acumen (i.e. P&L)
• Strong project leadership and management
• Experience with change management a plus
• Analytic and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to establish credibility, to work across boundaries and lead through influence
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Self-starter with a strong ability to lead and develop a new team
• Professional attitude, service orientation, strong work ethic; superb team player
• Excels in nebulous environments where the path to address a problem is not always clear or direct
• Approaches every problem with an outside-in perspective first and does not allow the status quo to influence your analysis
• Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Language Requirements:

English Required

Physical Demands:

Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

Work Environment:

Houston-based role with a hybrid schedule, combining in-office and work-from-home, for team connectivity or to support growth initiative execution. Fun, energized, results-driven team.