Sr. Product Analyst - GO Brands

About Grocery Outlet:

• Our Mission: Touching lives for the better

• Our Vision: Touching lives by being the first choice for bargain-minded consumers in the U.S.

• Our Values & Behaviors: Achievement, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, Family, Fun, Integrity & Service

About the Team: Our GO Brand team's mission is to create a distinctive value driven private label program to WOW our existing customers with everyday available value, unique offerings, and seasonal solutions to further enhance our in-store treasure hunt experience. We strategically identify white space opportunities for GO Brands to add value, analyzing data, partnering with internal stakeholders and external suppliers, to make key strategic decisions for the GO Brands portfolio. Our passion and energy promote a creative and growth-oriented environment within the unique culture of Grocery Outlet. The members of our team are resourceful, critical thinkers that pride themselves on integrity, efficiency, and collaboration. We utilize best-in-class sourcing practices to uncover hidden value in our business and are relentless at executing a flawless commercialization process. We work closely with our Independent Operators as well as our Purchasing and Planning teams to complement our existing opportunistic buying strategy while enhancing our existing ongoing assortment.

About the Role: Reports to the GO Brands Product Director and is a new role to Grocery Outlet. This specific role will have primary responsibilities of managing our GO Brands portfolio for an identified group of categories, managing the product lifecycle management and P&L performance of these items, including leading the sourcing, product development and commercialization of new GO Brands items. This role is a unique opportunity to join a new team chartered with developing the foundation and future of sourcing and GO Brands at Grocery Outlet.

Responsibilities Include:

• Conduct industry analyses and competitive assessments, modeling opportunities to prioritize white space sales and/or margin opportunities that would drive incremental value to the company.

• Support the RFP process for identified GO Brands categories, partnering with key business owners from start to finish, identifying capable supplier partners, performing market research and benchmarking, and managing the supplier communication process.

• Support contract and business term negotiations with suppliers by utilizing a robust strategic sourcing process, focused on should-costs, leveraging advanced scenario modeling, design to value thinking and vertical interference concepts.

• Execute legal contracts with awarded suppliers, partnering with the Grocery Outlet legal team on all legal indemnifications and business terms and conditions.

• Monitor supplier performance, assessing supplier service levels, understanding capacity planning, reviewing innovation pipelines, and pressing for continuous cost improvements.

• Perform ad hoc category or business analysis and support for stakeholders across the company, becoming a key thought partner with the business.

• Commercialize new GO product ideas, collaborating with the Purchasing team category leads and other cross-functional support to ensure products meet category objectives.

• Assist in building financial decks to summarize GO Brands category performance, cost analysis, and other key financial metrics, including collaborating with finance, purchasing and strategy teams to gather data and insights for financial reporting purposes.

• Create clear and insightful data visualizations, including preparing reports and dashboards that facilitate data-driven decision-making in the GO Brands department to communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Research and share input to the GO Brands design agency towards a packaging design solution for each responsible category, assessing national brand activity and private label competitive positioning.

• Review label claim documentation, quality certifications, specifications, plant audit reports, certificates of insurance and other legal or regulatory documents and present findings to the GO Brands Product Director and Director of Technical Services.

• Generate sales and marketing content for planned digital marketing events, including Ads, seasonal events, promotional activities, industry activation and ad hoc Independent Operator needs.

About The Pay:

• Base Salary Range: $85,000 - $105,000 Annually

• Annual Bonus Program

• Equity

• 401(k) Profit Sharing

• Medical, Dental, Vision & More!

Final compensation will be determined based upon experience and skills and may vary based on location.

About You:

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Food Science, Economics or Supply Chain. MBA preferred.

• 5+ years of private label sourcing and product commercialization experience in grocery retail.

• Action-oriented, self-starter with courage to lead change, and implement operational improvements.

• Strong analytical capabilities-takes data driven approach to problems with an ability to quickly model financial impacts and identify opportunities. Advanced Excel skills required.

• Must be familiar with clean-sheeting, should-cost modeling, tolling and developing financial models to reverse engineer the total costs of ownership for consumer packaged goods.

• Collaborative worker-quickly builds trusted relationships with internal business partners and external suppliers.

• Possess the ability to multi-task, prioritize, work independently and keep a high level of focus.

• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, especially in front of peers and executive audiences. Strong PowerPoint skills required.

• Experience working within a mainframe ERP system a plus as well as multiple data sources.

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