Description
Manager, Promotional Capabilities NA
Department: Global Merchandising
Location: US (Charlotte, Tempe, Florida), close to CK office
Type: Permanent, Full Time
Hybrid mode: 3 days in the office and 2 days remotely
Who We Are
At Circle K, our mission is simple: we want to make journeys easier and more enjoyable for our customers. We make everyday moments brighter by delivering thoughtful lifts along the way. We make journeys easier by offering fast and friendly service. We get the on-the-go lifestyle – that's why we take extra steps to brighten peoples' days and make quick stops easier. We are part of communities across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, helping us grow into one of the world's leading convenience and fuel retail businesses. We care about our people and our communities, and we look for ways to uplift people first. Wherever your journey's going, we can help you get there.
Join Our Team!
We're looking for a dynamic and skilled individual, to work with the multi-functional team in advancing our North American promotional capabilities. In this role you will be responsible for the development and implementation of Promotional planning and analytical tools, fostering the adoption of a data driven merchandising approach. You will collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization to design and deploy promotional processes and tools in North America (NA). The ideal candidate will possess a combination of strategic thinking, analytical mindset, strong prioritization ability and leadership skills to mobilize teams and engage key stakeholders.
What You Will Do
Here are just a few ways that you'll help make journeys better:
- Owning and executing the roadmap and advancement of Promotional capabilities in NA, in alignment with the Global Merchandising strategy.
- Acting as a subject matter expert and product owner for NA Promotional capabilities, leading the development and implementation of tech and analytics tools, working closely with Global Tech, Data & Analytics, and other functional groups.
- Providing guidance to Global Tech teams in the development of Promo Planner Tool. Working closely with Promotions Project Manager in sourcing business requirements, prioritizing tasks, identifying risks and mitigation plans, monitoring progress, and providing updates to leadership.
- Working with cross-functional stakeholders and Operations teams to identify testing opportunities, sharing learnings, and refine in-market execution approach.
- Collaborating with Global Functions, Regional Merchandising, Business Area (BA) and Business Units (BU) leads to gain broader stakeholder adoption and usage of new tools and continually improve ways of working.
- Supporting the Promotions Capabilities team during annual business budget planning, utilizing a data-driven approach for revenue and margin projections by BU.
- Acting as Merchandising subject matter expert for promotional data, tools, and processes in NA, as well as participating in other major organizational projects as required.
- Acting as an agent of change, championing a data driven approach for merchandising decision making, focused on promotions.
- Collaborating closely with Merchandising Training and Development to integrate new tools, processes, and ways of working into ongoing Merchandising and Category Management training.
- Overseeing, managing, and coaching a business analyst.
What You Need
We want you to join our team! Here's what we're looking for:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Business, Finance, Merchandising or related field. Master's degree is an asset.
- 5 to 7 years of work experience (retail merchandising or strategy consulting experience preferred)
- Demonstrated success working closely with cross-functional stakeholders to drive change across the organization.
- Ability to deal well with ambiguity, complexity, change and pace. Comfortable managing multiple projects and tasks, prioritizing amongst them.
- Strong understanding of multi-unit retail operating models and processes for merchandising and promotional planning and execution to include operational support for promotions activities.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with strong ability to synthesize and simplify complex ideas into compelling presentations.
- Analytical mindset with an ability to think broadly, refine questions, and develop strategic frameworks and executional approaches.
- Experience in a supervisory role, managing and developing people.
- Category Management experience is a strong asset.
- Strong proficiency with Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, & related Microsoft suite products
- Travel required 20% of time, some international. Passport or travel documentation/visa required.
- Flexibility around working hours required, working with teams across time zones.
What's in it for you!
Our job openings in stores and offices allow you to grow quickly within a global company, while benefiting from a dynamic work environment that puts people first. Wherever you are in your journey, we have a place for you. Here are some of the attractive benefits we offer:
- Competitive Salary plus eligible for annual bonus payment
- Complete benefits packages (medical, dental, 401k, employee stock plan, etc.).
- People Perks which allows for great discounts on food and fuel.
- Vacation / PTO time
- Work in a collaborative, dynamic and high performing team.
- Work for a leading, innovative, and growing company in convenience stores operations.
- Fortune 500 company and a 3-time Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award Winner.
- Tuition reimbursement of $5,000 per year.
- Learning opportunities to develop new skills and to evolve professionally in a fast-growing company.
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