Senior Program Manager, Integrated Promotion Planning

Are you ready to revolutionize the way Whole Foods Market approaches promotional planning and drive meaningful change across the organization?

The Role:
As a Senior Program Manager of Integrated Promotion Planning at Whole Foods, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of how we develop and execute our go-to-market strategies. You will lead and manager the process and innovations of promotional planning at WFM to support go to market strategies.
Imagine being the driving force behind the evolution of our promotional planning tools, working closely with Product, Merchandising, Marketing, and Data Science teams to create innovative solutions that enhance our customer experience.

"This role is based in Austin, TX, with an expectation of being in the Store Support office five days a week."

You are:
Your strategic thinking and leadership approach will be put to the test as you navigate complex business requirements and prioritize initiatives that align with our customer-first approach and commitment to quality, sustainability and community. If you're an expert in promotional planning for retail, data-driven decision making and analytics, and have expertise building strong relationships across departments, this role offers an exciting opportunity to leave your mark on the future of Integrated Promotional Planning in one of the most respected names in the grocery industry.This role will report to the Sr Team Leader of Pricing Strategy on the Retail Marketing team.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the business owner of Promotion Planning Tools, representing Merchants, Marketers, Data Operators and support roles.

• Understand, represent, and advocate for business requirements supporting ‘Go to Market’ Promotions planning

• Lead the evolution of EPM and Everclear Planning Tools

• Lead the prioritization process for tool enhancements, features, and critical data needs

• Help optimize decision-making and prioritization across the total business to ensure customer first go to market strategy activation

• Collaborates with project sponsors to communicate expectations to stakeholders.

• Builds, develops, and grows business relationships vital to project success.

• Escalates significant, complex, business critical, or sensitive issues for information and resolution as appropriate

• Be a leader and drive meaningful change through strong partnerships, program review meetings, and establishing a more consistent and standardized approach to prioritization and system requirements

• Support the successful integration of merchandising and marketing enhancements
   

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong leadership skills, including ability to lead through others, lead by example, and lead with a high level of trust and credibility

• Strategic thinker, capable of overseeing a critical and highly visible function at Whole Foods Market that connects with many other work-streams

• Strong interpersonal skills, a clear communicator, and strong cross-functional coordination skills

• Drives for results with a sense of urgency and bias for action

• Self-starter, self-motivator, ever curious, and resilient to proactively deliver value

• Proactively address issues that prevent us from maximizing our financial impact

• Self-starter and self-motivator to proactively deliver value to the teams and to our business

• Able to navigate the organization and collaborate to gain buy-in across multiple teams and stakeholders, including leading with and without direct authority    

• Passionate individual who will bring enthusiasm and energy to the team
   

Qualifications:

• BA degree and 4-6 years of relevant retail experience merchandising, operations, data and/or marketing, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience

• General knowledge and experience with marketing, merchandising, and operations

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