Manager I Assortment Optimization
Job Requisition: 552712 • Address: USA-ME-Scarborough-145 Pleasant Hill Rd • Store Code: Assortment Services (5139751)
About the role
Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more. This leader manages the Assortment Optimization process for one of the major category groups across the Ahold Delhaize USA (ADUSA) network, driving collaboration, tool and process adoption and integration, and analysis efforts for internal partners and for our great local brands, related to both macro and micro space.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Assortment Optimization team for select category groups in providing detailed analysis and assortment recommendations to the category teams across ADUSA through the Assortment Optimization Tool, working in concert with the Aligned Cycle Assortment Review Calendar; provide strategic insights to business-relevant questions using the same data driven approach based on category role and desired KPIs for each assortment review.
- Lead and manage the supporting processes and assets for the Assortment Optimization process: help ticket management, attribution cleaning and cataloging, Category and Analyst training, Sharepoint and Teams management, work package management.
- Lead and document all meetings with Category during the Assortment Optimization Process, collaborating with the analyst team to make sure all strategic inputs were recorded and are similarly understood.
- Collaborate with our external service providers (Oliver Wyman) on Assortment Tool process points, opportunities, and future enhancement requests.
- Serve as a point of contact for strategic requests for analysis and support on projects falling outside of the Aligned Cycle Assortment Review Calendar.
- Lead the optimization of assortment for