Regional Category Manager
Sysco
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Ottawa • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Junior
About the role
- 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
- Trust is essential
- 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)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
merchandisingcategory managementmarketingsales quotationsSKU rationalizationfood safety compliancenegotiationproduct knowledgeMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft Office
Soft skills
relationship buildingorganizational skillsdecision makingpresentation skillsintegrityaccountabilitytrustperformance under pressureconflict resolutioncommunication
Certifications
valid driver's license