Associated Wholesale Grocers

Procurement

• Develop and implement key category initiatives and strategies.
• Develop and maintain complete product and category knowledge.
• Develop sales growth programs that allow market flexibility.
• Develop and manage the AWG Brands assortment including product development to drive category sales and achieve targeted profitability.
• Manage vendor funding to maximize sales and profitability.
• Conduct regular category reviews to maximize category assortment and set category strategies.
• Responsible for managing event schedules and promotions.
• Responsible for overseeing input of all file maintenance is timely and accurately.
• Responsible for all vendor programs, allowances, performance funds, incentive funds, marketing funds, direct plant ship options, and maintaining efficiency incentives to gain a competitive advantage in our markets.
• Communicates and interacts with all cross functional departments (eg. Inventory Management, Center Store, Accounting, AWG Brands, and divisional sales teams.)
• Work with Corporate Promotions Planner and Sales Coordinators in each division to implement sales programs, communicating category and consumer trends.
• Visit key markets regularly to stay informed of competitive and market trends.
• Create joint business plans and conduct quarterly business reviews.
• Have an active role in the coaching and development of new associates to ensure consistent application of programs and processes and development of strategic thinking.
• Take a lead role in new process design, integration of new programming or development of strategies to better serve Member’s merchandising needs.
• Take project lead for key Center Store initiatives.

Senior Category Manager

Engineer

• Deliver Solutions (30%)
• - Installation & Deployment: Responsible for the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of Middleware solutions in the existing environment.
• - Project Execution: Execute special projects or other related duties as required to deliver technical solutions with the highest quality.
• - Developer Partnership: Closely partner with Developers during design, development, integration, and testing of reliable middleware solutions.
• - Change Documentation: Ability to develop timely and proper change documentation for all development tasks.
• - Ownership: Take ownership of assignments and communicate the status and completion of work to stakeholders.
• - Asset Creation: Build reusable assets and materials that enable the AWG community.
• Support – Availability & Service (30% - 40%)
• - 24x7 Support: Serve as a team member in a fast-paced 24x7 environment to ensure system-wide resiliency and stability.
• - Incident Response: Act as a resource during critical system outages to provide management with business impact information necessary to make decisions.
• - Problem Resolution: Correct reported problems with software and communication interfaces and utilize problem management tools to track tickets to resolution.
• - SLA Compliance: Drive resolutions within SLAs while involving peers and technology vendors when support is needed.
• - Remote Collaboration: Excel in working remotely and collaborating with remote team members to solve problems.
• Strategy – Align Roadmap & Strategy (15% - 25%)
• - Lifecycle Management: Responsible for the lifecycle of solutions, from selection to implementation, including software currency, upgrades, and technology retirement.
• - Architectural Alignment: Support solutions that align with industry best practices and AWG’s approved technology stack.
• - Operational Vision: Execute on the organizational operation vision and goals in alignment with department leadership.
• - Analytical Diagnosis: Use strong analytical skills with the ability to diagnose barriers and seek support when hitting technical obstacles.
• Team Development – Learning & Continuous Improvement (15% - 20%)
• - Continuous Learning: Maintain a strong passion and desire to learn and apply modern technologies.
• - Mentorship: Support and grow the skillsets of lesser-experienced Middleware team members.
• - Adaptability: Seek appropriate direction when things are unclear and respond productively to changing priorities.
• - Cross-functional Input: Work as a committed member of a cross-functional team, sharing ideas and inputs from different perspectives.

Middleware Engineer

Accountant

• Track fixed assets across all companies and divisions; maintain depreciation schedules for book and tax.
• Track leases within LeaseQuery database for ASC842 compliance and reporting.
• Prepare period & quarterly fixed asset reconciliations and roll forwards.
• Prepare period & quarterly lease reconciliation and roll forwards.
• Prepare renditions for personal property tax.
• Track and pay real and personal property taxes.
• Interface with consultants to ensure properties are valued fairly and assist with appeals.
• Prepare period reconciliations of all property tax accounts.
• Approve asset requisitions and ensure assets are properly capitalized and non-capital purchases are properly expensed.
• Assist with annual CapEx budgeting and re-projections.
• Prepare annual budget for real estate and property taxes.
• Fleet compliance; IRP, IFTA, UCR, HHUT and other related filings.
• Assist with year-end audit and special projects, as directed.

Senior Accountant

Payroll

• Process, balance and distribute payrolls for assigned divisions
• Prepare, verify, and process journal entries and related General Ledger account reconciliations
• Prepare any required vouchers or wires
• Record taxable fringe benefits, process adjustment payrolls, and balance W-2's
• Serve as back-up for other payroll department team members when required

Senior Payroll Assistant

Sales

• Review, verify and setup new vendors and new items as requested by the Category Manager in an accurate and timely fashion across multiple systems
• Process item maintenance, cost changes, and freight adjustments for vendors with accuracy daily
• Enter, track and process billing each period
• Communicate effectively across all departments, including Inventory Management, Center Store, Accounting, AWG Brands and warehouse teams
• Assist with deduction resolution as needed
• Interact with vendor partners to ensure accurate item maintenance
• Communicates and interacts with cross-functional departments at AWG
• Compile and run data reports as requested by the Category Manager
• Assist with special projects and other assigned duties

Sales Assistant

Solutions Engineer

• Support Availability and Services (50-60%)
• - Troubleshoot and develop solutions to problems, including using AWG approved AI tools such as Gemini, CoPilot and NotebookLM.
• - Collaborate with other developers and support engineers to resolve production, enhancement or development issues.
• - Participate in an on-call rotation for integration and transformation pipelines, legacy systems, and modern data platforms that may involve occasional off-hours and weekend support.
• - Take ownership of following on-call procedures and instituting permanent fixes for repetitive problems.
• - Maintain documentation for legacy systems, jobs, modern pipelines, and modernization implementation.
• - Understand and implement change control procedures (including RFC, CAB, CI/CD).
• Deliver Solutions (25%)
• - Build real-time and batch data integrations from disparate source systems into the data lake/data warehouse/delta lake.
• - Build and maintain scalable ETL processes using workflow automation tools.
• - Provide documentation (including Technical Design Documents) for installations and deliverables.
• - Design dimensional models and be able to cleanse and transform raw data into structured formats.
• - Administer and maintain data pipelines used for loading data into the data warehouse or lakehouse.
• - Scale and tune data pipelines, data sets, and SQL queries.
• - Responsible for Unit testing, support of Integration testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
• Learning and Continuous Improvement (10-20%)
• - Responsible for understanding and adoption of IT Architecture practice.
• - Continuous learning of existing and future data technologies and tools.
• - Apply standard methodologies to analyze, design, develop, test, and deploy data management solutions.
• - Participate in agile story authoring, sizing, and demo sessions for developed features.
• - Participate in code reviews and receive feedback from the team.
• - Propose process improvements for continuous department maturity.
• Align Roadmap and Strategy (5%)
• - Collaborate with business partners to understand their business problems or needs and desired outcomes.
• - In collaboration with other members of the team and user community, configure cloud-based capabilities that enable the AWG community.
• - Communicate priorities to the technology organization to drive effective business solutions.
• - Maintain verbal and written issue identification and status updates to cross-functional teams and leadership.

Solution Engineer I

• Lead and oversee the weekly base ad planning process for all divisions, selecting core items that drive value, margin, and member competitiveness.
• Negotiate with vendors to secure promotional funding, TPRs, EDLCs, and ad specific discounts to support print and digital advertising.
• Ensure ad mixes align with category strategies, seasonal needs, consumer trends, and member expectations.
• Partner with internal teams to ensure timely item setup, price accuracy, and execution readiness.
• Build strong relationships with vendor partners to support long term promotional planning.
• Drive collaborative conversations to secure competitive trade support for ad programs.
• Represent AIM in top to top vendor meetings focused on ad planning, investment growth, and strategic alignment.
• Establish clear sales goals, workflow expectations, and performance measures.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with Category Management, Procurement, Merchandising, Retail Marketing, and division teams to ensure ad plans are executable and aligned with business needs.
• Provide analysis on item performance, vendor funding trends, and member needs.
• Attend and represent AWG at industry conferences, AWG food shows, and division meetings.
• Deliver presentations to internal teams, member retailers, and external vendor partners.
• Communicate AIM strategies and promotional opportunities with professional presence and confidence.