Job Description

Job Description

Albertsons-Safeway Company is one of the largest food and drug retailers with 2,300+ stores. The Albertsons-Safeway family of brands includes some of the most prominent brands in food retailing, with a growing base of loyal shoppers. Thanks to the professionalism, diversity, spirit and friendliness of our people, we have locations across the U.S.

The Own Brands department, has an opening for an Assistant Product Manager on the Own Brands team. This position is located in Pleasanton, California.

Position Purpose

The Assistant Product Manager will be responsible to achieve Own Brands category sales, profit, and share plans. Assistant Manager Product Management will work with cross functional teams, product development, consumer insights, package design, financial planning & sourcing resources to drive base business and develop and launch new products. This position will provide strong analytical support to present actionable recommendations.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Lead category, brand, competitive, and promotional analysis to identify trends leading to key conclusions and implications.
* Manage cross functional teams to commercialize new products or product improvements.
* Complete analyses to forecast new item sales opportunities, track and monitor post-launch results. Work with finance to review sales results; identify trends and issues and recommend adjusted forecasts when necessary.
* Identify opportunities to improve the health of category base business to include possible Brand / SKU rationalization.
* Develop creative briefs for new products and marketing tactics, in collaboration with package design team, consumer marketing team and outside agencies.
* Support the development of the annual financial plan for Own Brands.
* Support & help identify key growth opportunities, by category, and help develop a strategy for growth.
* Analyze and interpret financial data to accurately plan and forecast the Own Brands business.
* Support the management of packaging & ingredient liabilities and develop sales / unit driving ideas to move through liabilities when needed.
* Partner with key vendors to provide key category and shopper insights for the health and growth of top categories.
* Work with vendors to ensure they meet service level performance metrics and influence supplier's manufacturing processes, technology decisions and customer service policies in ways that are mutually beneficial for both organizations.
* Assemble ideas from everywhere in the organization and evaluate best opportunities.
* Support identification of big category innovation from idea/concept to shelf.
* Stay current on all new category and shopper trends in categories of responsibilities.

Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree preferred in Business Marketing, Economics, or Finance
* 2 to 4 years of product innovation management, brand management and/or category management experience in a CPG or retail company.
* Knowledge of Own Brands operations and business.
* Advanced analytical skills: category management analytics, PC skills in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word). Experience with syndicated data (IRI, ACNielsen, Shopper card analysis) preferred.
* Attention to detail.
* Ability to analyze a broad range of consumer and financial data to develop strategic insights and make clear and compelling recommendations to grow the overall business.
* Advanced analytical and systems skills to manipulate and interrupt data for decision making.
* Excellent problem solving, oral and written communication skills.
* Able to independently lead analysis of category, brand, competitive and promotional activity to identify key trends and business implications. Uses data to make appropriate, actionable recommendations.
* Consumer Information Synthesis: Consistently accesses and analyzes a broad range of consumer data to develop robust recommendations based on a convergence of evidence. Able to identify key insights and indicated actions based on the data. Able to separate "nice to know" from "need to know" information.
* Ability to manage own workflow and produce results.
* Excellent team and interpersonal skills.
* Organizational skills to manage multiple initiatives/projects in a deadline driven environment.
* Can lead cross functional project management and can manage timelines.
* Influence cross functional teams.

Diversity is fundamental at Albertsons-Safeway. We foster an inclusive working environment where the different strengths and perspectives of each employee is both recognized and valued. We believe that building successful relationships with our customers and our communities is only possible through the diversity of our people. A diverse workforce leads to better teamwork and creative thinking, as well as mutual understanding and respect.

The Albertsons-Safeway policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion and other conditions of employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, medical condition, marital status or any other legally protected status.

We support a drug-free workplace -- all applicants offered a position are required to pass a pre-employment drug test before they are hired.

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