Grocery Merchandising Manager

United Trimen Our employees exhibit a friendly, collaborative, team-oriented focus on serving our customers with urgency and attention to detail. Our customers come first. Personal and professional growth depends on teamwork. By sharing knowledge, skills, ideas, and effort, we benefit our customers, ourselves, and our communities.
In an atmosphere of dignity and diversity, our appreciation for each other's talents and contributions keeps us at our best.
Matching Retirement Contribution
Overtime Compensation Over 40 hours
Training & Development and Growth Opportunities
We have a wide variety of opportunities to establish yourself in the food industry including sales, sales support, customer service, marketing, administration, finance, operations, technology and inventory management. Works with national vendors to drive operational excellence and manages, develops, and implements go-to market activities to support division sales and marketing strategy. Responsible for regional vendor management and product lifecycle management of the region and division-specific vendors and product portfolio ensuring optimal product mix focused on defined customer needs, operational efficiency, and financial goals as well as product discontinuation/deletions. Collaborates with key stakeholders on the national category team, merchandising teams, and vendors to execute strategies to achieve sales, margin, and brand goals. Supports go-to-market product and vendor strategy execution informed by Category Management plans, knowledge of current trends, internal and external category data, and feedback from engaged relationships with GFS regional merchandising and division marketing teams. Location: 1250 Ormont Dr, North York, ON Hybrid - 4 days in office. Acts as primary category contact for internal shareholders and external vendor community
Works with the Quality Assurance Team and vendors on resolution to product quality issues
Supports Supply Chain with vendor escalation on mid- to long-term vendor service level improvement and plans to ensure product availability to meet customer needs
Responsible for developing alternative supply solutions to support customer needs
Works with other departments (Education segment, Stores, etc ) to support Inventory Planning - I.e. back to school, seasonal products, etc)
Supports the creation of product content/attributes working with vendors and marketing communications
Responsible for working with vendors on Food show participation and activity planning
Works with vendors on driving continuous improvement of VIP Scorecard metrics
Collaborates with the Divisional Merchandising Teams on sales facing strategy execution

Business Acumen - Proficiency of business and management principles involved in strategic planning to inject creativity, fresh thinking, new perspectives and to generate new and imaginative ideas.
Marketing / Product - knowledge of principles and methods for merchandising products and services. Knowledge of product and marketing segments.
Project Management Skills - able to understand, follow and create processes in order to complete projects.
Self Management - Must have good time management and organizational skills to manage multiple projects simultaneously and to complete assigned work on time and on budget. Customer Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Data Analysis / Analytics Skills - Proficiency in analyzing information; Excel, Access) in creative ways to tell the product story, garner buy-in, provide insights and to support decision-making.
Speaking and Writing — Requires effective verbal, written, and presentation skills in order to support projects, convey findings, share strategies and implement product marketing/merchandising presentations, or to sell an idea in a variety of ways including written correspondence, face-to-face, or group meetings.
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