Senior Director Brand Strategy

Job Summary:

Sysco is one of the largest, most successful brands and is built on a foundation of quality and reliability. This role will be critical to the ongoing success and future growth of our brand.

This Senior Director will be responsible for creating a sustainable LT strategy to grow the Sysco brand portfolio focused on delivering both top and bottom line growth (revenue and profitability) and increasing our share within the industry.

Responsibilities will include designing a multi-step approach to growth, delivering wins both in the short term and outer years of the plan, creating a plan that doesn’t deviate from our quality standards or compromise any of our performance metrics as well as aligning with key stakeholders to ensure success of plan.

• Create multi year growth plan for the Sysco brand portfolio measured by incremental revenue, profit and share within industry.
• Work cross functionally with key stakeholders, ensuring transparency and open lines of communication throughout plan development as well as providing frequent updates on plan status to leadership.
• Ability to be an agile thinker and pivot based on business dynamics and/or leadership feedback.
• Ability to develop trusted partnerships with adjacent teams.
• Collaborate with all parts of the business impacted by growth plan, namely Merchandising, Sourcing, Pricing, Digital, Sales, Operations.
• Demonstrate ability to deliver on results, both deadlines and financial commitments of plan.
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills.

• Bachelors

• MBA preferred

• 15+ years of experience in building sustainable growth strategies
• Proven track record of delivering results through strategic growth plans
• Proven track record of collaboration and working cross functionally with multiple stakeholders
• Experience influencing teams outside of direct purview
• Experience communicating effectively to various levels within organization

• Experience working in highly matrixed organization

• Expert level capabilities in building out strong growth plans that deliver results and inspire our teams
• Strong understanding of finance, pricing, supply chain management, and operations
• Able to work effectively and collaboratively across all departments to meet goals and deadlines.
• Strong analytical and presentation skills

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION STATEMENT:

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affinitive Action employer, and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law. This opportunity is available through Sysco Corporation, its subsidiaries and affiliates.