Vice President, Merchandising

FHLB Des Moines; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 254,000; Full time

Job summary

Sysco Payroll, a division of Sysco Resources Services, LLC, seeks a senior merchandising leader to guide product lifecycles, pricing, and strategic revenue initiatives across SSMG & USBL. Collaborate with region leaders, sales, merchandising, and finance to optimize assortment, margins, and market strategies.

The role focuses on developing sourcing and demand planning for proteins, implementing category strategies, and driving cross-regional product capabilities to support national accounts and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Protein expertise with 15+ years in merchandising or retail consulting or senior leadership in the meat industry.

Responsibilities

• Own product lifecycle through leadership of merchandising team
• Capture internal & external conversion opportunities
• Build out demand planning capabilities
• SKU rationalization, standardization and clean up
• Create standard for product capabilities for proteins across all regions
• Work with SSMG & USBL on new products and establish product capabilities

Skills

Protein expertise

Analytical skills

Written/oral communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Company

Company: US6469 Sysco Payroll, Division of Sysco Resources Services, LLC

Sales Territory: None

Zip Code: 77077

Travel Percentage: Up to 25%

Compensation Range: $152,300.00 - $253,800.00 The compensation range provided is in compliance with state specific laws. Factors that may be used to determine your actual rate of pay include your specific skills, years of experience and other factors. You may be eligible to participate in the Company's Incentive Plan.

Benefits Information

BENEFITS INFORMATION: For information on Sysco’s Benefits, please visit https://SyscoBenefits.com

Job Summary

This position provides corporate-level leadership for merchandising through product assortment, product development, national pricing routines and management. Works in partnership with leaders (region leaders, sales, merchandising, and finance) across SSMG & USBL to optimize assortment revenue and margin results, embed pricing and margin routines, conduct analysis to provide strategic recommendations and tailor market strategies across SSMG & USBL to optimize revenue and margin. Reviews SSMG contracts, pricing, and margin. This position should develop and proactively provide insight to support local, national, and internal sales growth strategies and improve commercialization initiatives.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Own product lifecycle through leadership of merchandising team
• Capture internal & external conversion opportunities
• Build out demand planning capabilities
• SKU rationalization, standardization and clean up
• Create standard for product capabilities for proteins across all regions
• Work with SSMG & USBL on new products and establish product capabilities
• Co-pack/retail strategy development and implementation (Pro-Link)
• Evaluate RTE (ready to eat) strategy
• Owns sourcing strategy for SSMG over $2.5 billion spend
• Merchandising – working closely with GSC team
• Category Mgt- define consistent national/local assortment, good/better/best
• Sourcing, including indirect, national accounts- build strategy to aggerated buys to provide lower COGS and consistent approach to national customers
• Develop sourcing strategies including suspend fresh/frozen
• Demand Planning- aggregate demand for both local and national business to leverage scale
• SKU rationalization- common assortment, reduce sku’s and better descriptions, images
• Standardized Costing- Consistent driver costs and national pricing for USBL/CBL
• Margin management- elimination of leakage, capture market gains
• Product Conversions – capturing internal opportunities
• Product capabilities- build out entire suite across all regions (poultry, seafood, RTC, Grinds)
• Product development- new products & capabilities
• Co pack/ Retail strategy development and implementation (Pro-Link)
• Manage national & local pricing
• Margin management
• Evaluate RTE strategy
• Commercial sales strategy for USBL aligning with sales enablement and merchandising
• Manages local OpCo (operating company) assortment to meet sales demands and execute and support category growth initiatives
• Monitor market to increase market share
• Negotiate and manage local level programs
• Projection and budget management

Qualifications

Education Required: Bachelors Degree

Experience Required: Protein expertise, 15+ years of progressive experience in Merchandising or Retail Consulting, or senior leadership roles in the meat industry

Physical Demands

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

Professional Skills

• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Effective written/oral communication skills
• Strong analytical skills

Affirmative Action Statement

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity and affirmative action employer, and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law. This opportunity is available through Sysco Corporation, its subsidiaries and affiliates.

Overview

Sysco is the global leader in foodservice distribution. With over 71,000 colleagues and a fleet of over 13,000 vehicles, Sysco operates approximately 333 distribution facilities worldwide and serves more than 700,000 customer locations. We offer our colleagues the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, to contribute to the success of a dynamic organization, and to serve others in a manner that exceeds their expectations. We’re looking for talented, hard-working individuals to join our team. Come grow with us and let us show you why Sysco is at the heart of food and service. Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 71,000 colleagues, the company operates 333 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 700,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2022 that ended July 2, 2022, the company generated sales of more than $68 billion. Information about our Sustainability program, including Sysco’s 2022 Sustainability Report and 2022 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Report, can be found at www.sysco.com.

Closing Date

Anticipated Close Date: 09/18/2026 The deadline may be extended in good faith based on business needs. The posting will be updated when the deadline is extended.