The Senior Manager Strategy is responsible for leading project work in support of strategic initiatives at US Foods. This includes identifying and quantifying business opportunities, analyzing data, communicating findings and recommendations to executive audiences, engaging with cross-functional team and supporting implementation.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Project leadership: Own project deliverables, timeline, and success criteria; collaborate with internal analytics partners, business stakeholders, and management
• Analytics and solution development: Leverage advanced methods and tools to analyze business problems; synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights and develop clear, concise, and fact-based recommendations
• Communications: Create executive-level written materials and present to senior audiences
• Field enablement: Develop training, standard operating processes, and tracking capabilities to enable field execution against corporate initiatives
• Department support: Collaborate with members of the Strategy team and support consistent and ad-hoc project needs
• Other duties as assigned by manager
***EOE Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Protected Veteran/Disability Status***
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education/Training:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business / Engineering or related quantitative field required
• Master’s degree preferred
Related Experience/Requirements:
• 6+ years demonstrated successful experience in analytical and project management roles
• Prior management consulting or corporate strategy experience preferred
• Prior distribution, retail, CPG, or related industry experience preferred
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
• Demonstrated motivation to build consensus, lead workstreams, and drive progress on assigned projects
• Clear, concise communicator able to interface with all levels of the organization
• Strong written and oral presentation skills, including comfort presenting to senior management
• Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently
• Strong analytical, problem solving and technical aptitude:
Experience in data analysis and statistical inference
SQL experience preferred
Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Available for occasional travel as business requires (less than 5% of time)