Regional Category Manager

Role Overview

• Owns the market share growth, sales and profitability performance of assigned product categories, vendors and Stock Keeping Units (SKU’s) through analysis and collaboration with sales and marketing teams.
• Influences sales decisions toward profitable items (Sysco brand, Sourced, etc.)
• Provides product intelligence to sales.
• Owns the product education and training plan for their categories.
• Facilitates in General Sales Meeting’s (GSM’s) to support category growth aligned with corporate and regional direction.
• Collaborates with marketing on regional category promotions.
• Works with Business Resources team on customer facing opportunities.
• Uses market intelligence to create relevant sales quotations.
• Decision maker for the local product assortment
• Rationalizes SKU’s to optimize warehouse needs.
• Executes corporate strategies to drive PGM Growth
• Supports procurement in aged/overstock/deadstock.
• Resolves local vendor discrepancies and conflicts.
• Negotiates local program agreements.
• Facilitates local item and vendor setups and costing.
• Complies with Sysco’s Food Safety Policy and procedures to ensure food safety, quality and legality requirements are met.
• Is willing to work safely with minimal environmental impact and understands the importance of reporting all hazards, incidents, and environmental spills immediately to their supervisor.
• Understands that they play an integral role in their own safety and that of their colleagues and is willing to speak out when hazards are present.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Minimum 1 year of merchandising/category management or marketing experience
• Experience in retail or foodservice sales is an asset
• Post secondary education in related field preferred, equivalent work experience will be considered.
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook
• Ability to foster strong relationships with vendors, internal departments to drive sales, resolve issues and create a competitive advantage.
• Strong negotiation, organizational, decision making and presentation skills.
• High degree of integrity and accountability; handles significant amount of proprietary information and process.
• Ability to maintain stable performance under pressure or opposition, i.e. conflicts/ambiguity and during negotiations.
• Must have solid understanding of products within their category as it pertains to features & benefits, advantages, category trends, and Vendors associated with their category.
• Valid driver’s license in good standing with access to a vehicle is required as there may be some ad-hoc travel.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Flexible Benefits including Health and Dental, Health Care Spending and Wellness Accounts
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Life Insurance
• Voluntary Optional Insurance
• Parental Leave Plan
• Company Pension Plan
• Group RRSP & TFSA
• Employee and Family Assistance
• Stock Purchase Plan
• Maple Virtual Care
• Unlimited on-line learning
• Sysco product discounts
• Preferred vendor discounts
• Associate Resource Groups (*benefits may vary based on location or bargaining unit)