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Factors that may be used to determine rate of pay include specific skills, work location, work experience and other individualized factors\nJob Summary:\nThe Category and Assortment Director for Sysco Specialty Meat Group is responsible for setting and managing enterprise-wide category and assortment strategies. This role drives execution through cross-functional influence and engagement of all stakeholders. Key responsibilities include establishing and delivering KPIs that support both Sysco and SSMG objectives, optimizing SSMG’s customer-facing assortment, developing essential tools and execution tactics, and ensuring proper cross-functional leadership alignment. This role requires significant levels of cross-functional and leadership engagement, experience in building and executing large-scale strategies, and the ability to lead and influence category and assortment initiatives across a wide range of stakeholders. The Category and Assortment Director ensures complete alignment of assortment management objectives with sales, supply chain, digital, operations, and revenue management.\nAbout Sysco Specialty Meat Group:\nSysco Specialty Meat Group is a leader in the specialty meat industry, committed to providing high-quality products and innovative solutions to meet the evolving needs of our customers. We strive to drive transformation and growth through strategic category and assortment management.\nDuties and Responsibilities:\nDevelop and execute category and assortment strategic plans and objectives supporting SSMG’s overall transformational objectives.\n\nLeverage SSMG size and scale to effectively build category assortments, enhancing consistency and mitigating unnecessary category uniqueness.\n\nCreate consistent and unbiased performance metrics to assess category strategy effectiveness.\n\nDesign centrally led national/regional category assortments and strategies, complemented by local and customer segment-specific product offerings.\n\nImplement change management strategies to ensure successful execution of assortment strategies at all organizational levels.\n\nDevelop and lead efforts to collaborate with USBL partners on assortment stocking optimization using data and insights, supported by growth and go-to-market strategies.\n\nContinuously assess and address evolving process and technology needs to enable effective management of assortment at national, regional, and local levels.\n\nManage product development, SKU rationalization/standardization, SKU creation, and data/image attribution.\n\nProvide ongoing leadership oversight of numerous projects/initiatives.\n\nTechnical Skills and Abilities:\nProven experience in developing and executing large-scale category and assortment strategies.\n\nStrong cross-functional leadership and engagement skills.\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead and influence initiatives across a wide range of stakeholders.\n\nExperience with change management and implementation of strategic plans.\n\nStrong analytical skills with the ability to create and assess performance metrics.\n\nKnowledge of supply chain, digital, operations, and revenue management principles.\n\nHigh level of business/financial acumen.\n\nExcellent communication and interpersonal skills.\n\nExcellent organizational skills\n\nAbility to multi-task, prioritize and manage many ongoing projects at once\n\nSelf-motivation with the ability to manage initiatives in a challenging, fast-paced environment.\n\nEducation Required:\nBachelor’s degree from 4-year college/university or equivalent combination of education/experience in lieu of a degree sufficient\n\nExperience Preferred:\n10+ years leadership experience in Category Management or merchandising analytics in retail, specialty, or foodservice industry\n\nTravel Requirements:\n10-20% travel as needed\n\nWork Environment:\nRemote\n\nBENEFITS INFORMATION:\nFor information on Sysco’s Benefits, please visit https://SyscoBenefits.comOVERVIEW:\nSysco 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.\nWe 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. 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