Senior Program Manager, Integrated Promotion Planning
Job Description
Are you ready to revolutionize the way Whole Foods Market approaches promotional planning and drive meaningful change across the organization?
The Role:
As a Senior Program Manager of Integrated Promotion Planning at Whole Foods, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of how we develop and execute our go-to-market strategies. You will lead and manager the process and innovations of promotional planning at WFM to support go to market strategies.
Imagine being the driving force behind the evolution of our promotional planning tools, working closely with Product, Merchandising, Marketing, and Data Science teams to create innovative solutions that enhance our customer experience.
You are:
Your strategic thinking and leadership approach will be put to the test as you navigate complex business requirements and prioritize initiatives that align with our customer-first approach and commitment to quality, sustainability and community. If you're an expert in promotional planning for retail, data-driven decision making and analytics, and have expertise building strong relationships across departments, this role offers an exciting opportunity to leave your mark on the future of Integrated Promotional Planning in one of the most respected names in the grocery industry.
This is an Austin TX based role and will report to the Sr Team Leader of Pricing Strategy on the Retail Marketing team.
Responsibilities:
Serve as the business owner of Promotion Planning Tools, representing Merchants, Marketers, Data Operators and support roles.
Understand, represent, and advocate for business requirements supporting ‘Go to Market’ Promotions planning
Lead the evolution of EPM and Everclear Planning Tools
Lead the prioritization process for tool enhancements, features, and critical data needs
Help optimize decision-making and prioritization across the total business to ensure customer first go to market strategy activation
Collaborates with project sponsors to communicate expectations to stakeholders.
Builds, develops, and grows business relationships vital to project success.
Escalates significant, complex, business critical, or sensitive issues for information and resolution as appropriate
Be a leader and drive meaningful change through strong partnerships, program review meetings, and establishing a more consistent and standardized approach to prioritization and system requirements
Support the successful integration of merchandising and marketing enhancements
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Strong leadership skills, including ability to lead through others, lead by example, and lead with a high level of trust and credibility
Strategic thinker, capable of overseeing a critical and highly visible function at Whole Foods Market that connects with many other work-streams
Strong interpersonal skills, a clear communicator, and strong cross-functional coordination skills
Drives for results with a sense of urgency and bias for action
Self-starter, self-motivator, ever curious, and resilient to proactively deliver value
Proactively address issues that prevent us from maximizing our financial impact
Self-starter and self-motivator to proactively deliver value to the teams and to our business
Able to navigate the organization and collaborate to gain buy-in across multiple teams and stakeholders, including leading with and without direct authority
Passionate individual who will bring enthusiasm and energy to the team
Qualifications:
BA degree and 4-6 years of relevant retail experience merchandising, operations, data and/or marketing, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
General knowledge and experience with marketing, merchandising, and operations
Application Instructions
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