Mgr-Promo Strategy

Your Impact:

We are seeking a highly strategic and analytical Manager, Promotional Systems and Planning to lead and enable pricing technology capabilities and processes that will drive company metrics and increase pricing efficiency. This role involves close collaboration across teams and external technology partners to deliver scalable and cost-effective solutions. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with strong leadership and problem-solving skills, capable of managing both large and small projects effectively.

What You Will Do:

• Lead highly visible and strategic projects to identify and enable pricing technology capabilities and processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify capability requirements and ensure delivery of solutions that balance speed to market, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Possess strong analytical problem-solving abilities and demonstrate the ability to manage and deliver projects independently.
• Act as a critical thinker, strategically focusing on the most pressing opportunities.
• Exhibit strong leadership and collaboration skills, working with key stakeholders to drive alignment and deliver results.
• Lead team members in identifying data, technology, process, and business gaps, providing recommendations to address use cases and improve go-to-market execution.
• Partner with various teams, serving as the primary point of contact to ensure front-line teams have the necessary capabilities to achieve channel goals, including audience, promo, creative optimization, and measurement.
• Define and develop best-in-class short, mid, and long-term business needs and processes for cross-functional partners and define business requirements.
• Identify strategic opportunities to improve automation and efficiency across functional teams.
• Lead go-to-market activities, including partnering with technology on new initiatives, leading business adoption, training, and documentation, including change management.
• Understand current capabilities and dependencies, existing roadmap and workflow items, proposed vendor capabilities, and incremental value system and feature enhancements.
• Ensure cross-functional partners are aligned and accountable with executive leadership on a future-state vision, including business objectives, capabilities, value drivers, success metrics, and business priorities.
• Provide senior leadership (Director & above) with key updates regarding strategy, progress, and risks.
• Communicate changes or improvements to cross-functional partners regarding initiatives, capabilities, and features to ensure business teams are appropriately informed.

• Bachelor's degree in administration, Finance, Marketing, Statistics or related field.
• 5 years of experience in Marketing, Merchandising, or related experience
• 3 years of experience in brand or integrated marketing leadership experience for consumer brands or retailer
• 3 years of experience in running a P&L and/or working alongside P&L owners
• 3 years of experience working cross-functionally

• 3 years of experience leading brand or category work at a retailer or CPG company
• Proven experience in project management, with strong communication (written and oral), presentation, and problem-solving skills.
  Demonstrated ability to lead and manage both large and small projects effectively.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.
  Excellent leadership and collaboration abilities.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams and external technology partners.
• Ability to identify and address data, technology, process, and business gaps.
• Knowledge of go-to-market strategies and execution.