At SpartanNash, we deliver the ingredients for a better life through customer-focused innovation. We do this for our supply chain customers and U.S. military commissaries, retail store guests and, most importantly, our Associates. In fact, we see a day when each will say, "I can't live without them." Our SpartanNash family of Associates is 17,500 strong, ranging from bakery managers to order selectors; from IT developers to vice presidents of finance; from HR Business Partners to export specialists. Each of them plays an integral role in SpartanNash's People First culture, Operational Excellence and Insights that Drive Solutions. Ready to contribute to the success of our food solutions company? Apply now! Location: 850 76th Street S.W. - Byron Center, Michigan 49315 Job Description: Position Summary: Leads the Enhanced Category Planning (ECP) and Compelling Offer (Assortment Optimization) programs. Enhanced Category Planning: * Lead annual vendor negotiation process including joint business planning, strategic planning with merchandising teams and coordination with vendors to improve sales and profitability. * Influences across key Directors across merchandising and cross functional groups including Finance, Supply Chain, Retail, and Marketing. * Creates and presents content regularly to merchandising leadership. Compelling Offer: * Aligning with cross-functional leadership teams on intended category changes. * Modeling expected financial and operational impacts. * Overseeing roll-out of category changes to full retail store, wholesale systems and potential to oversee store trials for proposed changes. Here'swhatyou'lldo: * Support ECP and Compelling Offer program development and value delivery, including timeline adherence, and stakeholder management. * Develop data and analytics fact base in partnership with merchandising analytics function and drive into core ways of working for merchandising and associated support teams. * Manage end-to-end negotiations process with vendors through signature of final Preferred Vendor Agreements (PVA's). * Evaluate vendor proposals and provide strategic input throughout negotiations. * Assist with annual vendor engagement training and vendor summit. * Effectively communicates to senior staff on ECP and category management objectives, updates and results. * Performing category assortment reviews using internal and customer-driven data, item-level analytics, and competitor benchmarking. Here'swhatyou'llneed: * Bachelor's Degree (Required) Business Administration, Food Marketing, or other related field or equivalent combination of education and/or experience. * An overall combined (5) years'experiencein marketing, category management, product management, field sales, store leadership and/or product development experience in retail or wholesale industry. * Strong verbal and written communication skills. * Strong financial acumen, analytical, influencing and negotiations skills. * Working knowledge of category planning practices. * Experience working across business units to use resources and capabilities to carry out company goals. * Proficient in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Nielsen Category Management tools, experience with purchasing systems is a plus. * Project management experience is a plus. * Ability to travel between 15-40% As part of our People First culture, SpartanNash is proud to offer a robust and competitive Total Rewards benefits package. SpartanNash is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veteran, that celebrates diversity and believes employing a diverse workforce is key to our success. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals. We are not able to sponsor work visas for this position.