Product Manager – Merchandising chez Albertsons Companies
Albertsons Companies · Pleasanton, États-Unis d'Amérique · Onsite
- Professional
- Bureau à Pleasanton
Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!
At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.
About this Role
The Merchant Category Strategy Product Team is seeking a Product Manager to lead initiatives that optimize category performance, enhance merchant decision-making, and drive strategic growth across our merchandising ecosystem. This role will focus on building tools and capabilities that empower merchants with data-driven insights, streamline category planning, to reflect merchant strategy.
Main responsibilities:
- Champion the needs of customers, merchants, vendors, business teams, and stakeholders throughout the product development cycle, ensuring that what is delivered meets user needs and enables better merchandising decision making.
- Ability to operate in areas of uncertainty and ambiguity.
- Partner with merchants and CPG teams to evaluate allowances, costs, promotions, and display/space plans, ensuring strategies are grounded in real trade practices.
- Use Circana, Nielsen, Symphony, and retailer monetization platforms to curate market trends, develop hypotheses, and test strategies for price, promo, and display planning.
- Act as a functional sense-check for pricing intelligence solutions - ensuring outputs align with what makes sense in the aisle, in negotiations, and in retail execution.
- Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to translate merchandising requirements into scoped technical solutions, providing ongoing guidance and validation.
- Drive hypothesis development and validation with merchants, using transaction data, competitive benchmarks, and market share analysis.
- Lead cross-functional working sessions to align trade partners, merchants, and analysts around recommendations and scenarios.
- Monitor performance against goals such as trade ROI, sales lift, basket mix, and profitability, sharing insights back to stakeholders.
- Responsible for communicating product solutions and benefits to customers and stakeholders; including knowledge transfer and training for on-going management of features.
- Flexible Career Path: Be prepared to adapt and expand into other areas of the retail domain over time, utilizing your core trade promotion expertise as a foundation for future growth within the company.
We are looking for candidates who possess the following:
- 7-10 years in merchandising, trade promotions, category management, or CPG commercial strategy, with direct involvement in allowance, cost, and promotional planning.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in business, Economics, Marketing, Data Science, Management sciences, Business Administration.
- Hands-on experience with retailer and CPG data platforms (Circana, Nielsen, Symphony, or equivalent).
- Strong functional understanding of retail pricing, promotion mechanics, space & display execution, and vendor negotiations.
- Demonstrated ability to work with both merchant operators and technical teams to ensure solutions reflect practical workflows.
- Track record of turning data analysis into actionable insights that shaped trade or merchandising decisions.
- Demonstrates strong analytical and critical thinking skills to identify root causes, evaluate complex data, and develop practical solutions.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to credibly engage at all levels - from merchants and department specialists to technical teams and executives.
Skills Required
- Pricing & Trade Promotion Strategy
- CPG & Retail Merchandising Expertise
- Data Analysis & Hypothesis Development
- Cross-functional Engagement (Merchants, CPGs, Technical Teams)
- Strong Communication & Stakeholder Management
We also provide a variety of benefits including:
- Competitive wages paid weekly
- Associate discounts
- Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
- Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
- Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
- An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve
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The salary range is $ 120,670 to $ 156,838 annually. Starting salary will vary based on criteria such as location, experience, and qualifications. There may be flexibility for exceptional candidates.
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Company
Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. Committed to innovation and fostering a culture of belonging, our team is united with a unique purpose: to bring people together around the joys of food and to inspire well-being. We want talented individuals to be part of this journey!
Locally great and nationally strong, Albertsons Companies (NYSE: ACI) is a leading food and drug retailer in the U.S. We operate over 2,200 stores, 1,732 pharmacies, 405 fuel centers, 22 distribution facilities, and 19 manufacturing plants across 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well-known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, ACME, Shaw’s, Tom Thumb, United Supermarkets, United Express, Randalls, Albertson’s Market, Pavilions, Star Markets, Market Street, Carrs, Haggen, Lucky, Amigos, Andronico’s Community Markets, King’s, Balducci’s, and Albertson’s Market Street.
Our vision is to be a retail leader admired for national strength with deep local roots, offering an easy, fun, friendly, and inspiring experience, no matter how customers choose to shop with us. We celebrate the rich diversity of the communities we serve, and strive to create a workplace where everyone has equal access to opportunities and resources, and can fully contribute to their and our company’s success.
Bring your flavor
Building the future of food and well-being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table.
Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature of work performed by the employees assigned to this job and are not the official job description for the position. All employees must comply with Company, Division, and Store policies and applicable laws. The responsibilities, duties, and skills of personnel may vary within store and/or from store to store and the official job description will be provided during the application process.
Albertsons is an Equal Opportunity Employer
This Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, or on any other basis prohibited by law. Consistent with applicable state and local law, the Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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