Senior Manager, Business Growth - Sysco Brands

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INFORMATION: For information on Sysco’s Benefits, please visit https://SyscoBenefits.com Job Summary: The Senior Manager of Business Growth —Sysco Brands will be a key contributor to the design and execution of long-term strategies to drive profitable growth of Sysco’s Own Brand product portfolio. Working with the Own Brand Center of Excellence and across business units, the Senior Manager of Business Growth—Sysco Brands will conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis to evaluate growth channels, both within existing customers and in new markets. The associate will research emerging solutions and work with internal stakeholders to determine business rationale for adoption, potential value, and tradeoffs associated with implementation. In addition, they will play a critical role in shaping the process and leading the global, cross-company deployment of key growth strategies with partnership from various stakeholders.

Support Sr. Director & Director with deep data and analytics, creativity, and structured thinking / decision making to develop business cases to support Own Brand portfolio growth. Support Director in identifying, researching and defining future growth strategies across existing customers and/or in new markets; leveraging current capabilities or through the creation of new ones. Support Director in cultivating key messages and communications for varying audiences, including progress updates for executive audiences. Own the program management for all workstreams needed to execute against aligned upon growth strategy(ies) including defining workstreams, identifying timelines, sequencing work, capturing dependencies, managing issue resolution and trading off priorities as needed to execute the business strategy.

Required: Bachelor’s degree Education Preferred: MBA preferred Experience Required: 8-10+ years of experience in an analytical and strategic business role, with escalating levels of leadership and responsibility Must have skillset with modeling, strategic thinking and growth planning experience, including program management experience Experience Preferred: Experience in food service and B2B industries preferred but not required Technical Skills and Abilities: Strong interpersonal, leadership, communication, and presentation skills Proven experience to get work done in a complex matrix organization Ability to think strategically and tactically from customer perspective Ability to structure unique problems and lead cross-functional teams in a way that enables the organization to make significant progress quickly Strong ability to manage ambiguity and guide the organization through it towards clear and decisive action plans Ability to understand P&L Strong project leadership and management background Experience with change management Excellent analytic and problem-solving skills Proven ability to establish credibility and influence executive-level stakeholders as well as the ability to work across boundaries and lead through influence Strong communication and collaboration skills Leader/doer with the ability to operate effectively and influence others in a matrix organization Excellent pattern recognition and predictive modeling skills Self-starter with a strong ability to lead and develop a new team Experience in a startup-like environment and ability to foresee the needs of the organization, plan accordingly and direct the team to achieve quick wins and long term success