Position Summary :

About Baldor Specialty Foods Since our beginnings as part of the iconic Greenwich Village retail store, Balducci’s, Baldor has maintained its original promise – to curate and deliver the best ingredients from around the world. For 25 years, we have served the food industry using cutting edge logistics to create a seamless customer experience. Our commitment to service and quality has made us the first choice in distribution for a diverse list of industry leaders that includes hotels, restaurants, county clubs, hospitals, and in the last seven years Baldor has achieved consistent double-digit growth in addition to geographic, category, product, and channel expansion.

Position Summary: As an industry leader in wholesale, retail, and residential food distribution, Baldor Specialty Foods continues to grow and evolve at a rapid pace across all departments. We are seeking an energetic, innovative, strategic leader who will help lead the strategic and tactical merchandising plan leading the evolution of category sales and profit objectives.

The Category Manager will be responsible for developing positive working relationships with our vendor community, maintaining a high level of product knowledge for assigned categories, and interacting daily with Sales, Operations, Marketing, Merchandising and Finance. The Category Manager will oversee daily operation of category functions including weekly, monthly, and annual promotional plans, product assortment and placement, shelf allocation, and costs to drive sales and gross profit margin.

To ensure you’re best suited to this role if you’re a bridge builder. Cross-functional collaboration—across Sales, Supply Chain, Marketing, and more—will be essential to elevate the great work that is already being done internally.

This role will be hybrid, working a few days a week at our Bronx, NY headquarters.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Development of commodity expertise with deep understanding of market dynamics helping identify both risk and opportunity and any Potential cost savings opportunities.
• Manages the performance of the planning team to ensure that assigned category management strategic objectives are met including inventory and service levels for assigned categories.
• Maintains an on-going review process for the merchandising team to include analysis of the assigned category or area of responsibility, review of promotional programs for the current and upcoming year.
• Weekly and monthly reviews on key metrics that impact the financial performance of the category.
• Develop and manage communication to MSO team for all selling programs and category management initiatives.
• Ability to analyze complex supplier proposals and use decision-making tools and models, including finance
• Management of overall supplier relationships including supplier performance, capability development, cost and quality improvements.
• Ability to identify and implement Total Cost of Ownership approach to cost savings and process improvement measures.
• Other duties as assigned
  

Qualifications:

• Passion for food and the food industry
• B.A. or B.S. Degree required in related discipline with 3+ years in workplace experience.
• Team Leader: an experienced manager who cares about the success of the team as much as the success of tactics. Able to work cross functionally with Supply Chain, Sales, Operations, and Finance. Able to influence decisions using qualitative and quantitative data;
• Data-driven and analytic mindset who leverages a diverse set of inputs to develop objectives, strategies, and initiatives for short- and long-term growth. well organized, able to handle multiple projects simultaneously;
• Positive and agile mindset, with the ability to troubleshoot and thrive in a fast-paced environment working cross-functionally
• Results & Action Oriented: comfortable setting and delivering against bold, stretch targets.
• Communication: able to effectively communicate internally and externally; both verbally and in writing.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: willing to do whatever it takes with resolve, urgency and integrity to get the job done.
• Ability and willingness to travel to conferences, trade shows, vendor tours and other offsite Baldor locations and functions
• Technical Skills: strong experience in market/supplier analysis and ability to quickly develop commodity expertise;

  o Minimum of 3 years of experience in ERP/MRP system (Dynamics365 a plus)

  o Foreign supplier management – FSMA requirements and clearing regulations

  o Microsoft Excel suite proficiencies (v-lookup, pivot tables and formula entry)

  o Knowledge of USDA grading standards and tolerances; PACA laws and regulations

At Baldor Specialty Foods we’ve got you covered with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package that includes FREE medical/dental/vision (free for employee & family), prescription, life insurance, company gym, matched 401K plan and a profit sharing program.

Baldor Specialty Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered for positions for which they meet the minimum qualifications and are able to perform without regard to race, color, gender, age, religion, physical or mental disability, gender dysphoria and similar gender-related conditions, national origin, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, veteran status, actual or perceived sexual orientation, pregnancy, alienage or citizenship status, gender identity or expression and including status as a transgender individual, genetic formation, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, domestic violence

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