Company Name: Kroger General Office
Position Type: Employee
FLSA Status: Exempt

Manage the strategic narrative for Merchandising. This includes strategic messages for the Merchandising team, Board of Directors, investors, presidents, quarterly reviews, and Fresh Forward. Meets with SVPs/EVPs/VPs to understand and synthesize their vision into actionable building blocks. Lead the design and articulation of strategic concepts, frameworks, and presentations to support the delivery and accountability of merchandising's goals. Leads the OKR process for the Merchandising workstream. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

Essential Job Functions

• Lead the OKR process for the Merchandising workstream by working with Merchandising EVP, GVPs, VPs and Directors to ensure OKRs support Kroger's long-term growth ambitions
• Lead Merchandising deliverables for key events such as the annual category managers meeting, presidents' meetings, board of directors' meetings, and investor relations meetings
• Manage the strategic narrative for Merchandising
• Meet with SVPs/EVPs/VPs to understand and synthesize their vision into actionable building blocks, ensure the right measurements are used to determine success, and ensure messaging reflects the desired narrative
• Ensure processes and check-points are in place to ensure leadership/stakeholders are aligned with progress
• Supports VPs to gain leadership and stakeholder alignment for OKR success criteria
• Plan and execute a strategic communications roadmap ensuring period, quarterly, and annual reporting leads to the desired outcomes
• Support the delivery and accountability of achieving Merchandising's strategic goals by implementing the cadence of reporting, deliverables, and communications needed to support the Merchandising narrative of its strategic approach, objectives, and key results
• Design and implement the supporting frameworks, measurements, and templates that are simple to complete, easy to the understand, and are predictive of success
• Lead the period, quarterly, and annual deliverables for departments to create insightful progress updates of the most important strategic initiatives/objectives
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Minimum Position Qualifications

• 2+ years successfully delivering results in Merchandising as a level 11 or higher (if internal), or equivalent experience in Operations, Digital, or 84.51
• 2+ years of experience with analyzing customer, merchandising and financial data
• Proven leadership skills to delegate, motivate, and hold cross-functional teams accountable
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate information to all levels within the organization
• Proven analytical skills and ability to synthesize analysis into compelling written/visual communications
• Proven creative skills and ability to transform complex ideas into easily understood concepts
• Demonstrated process improvement skills and ability to develop, re-engineer and document new processes.
• Proven skill and ability to develop effective objectives and key results
• Proven track record of delivering objectives on time and in full
• Demonstrated project management and facilitation skills that drive projects forward quickly
• Demonstrated ability of being results oriented setting high goals for personal and group accomplishment: using measurement methods to monitor progress toward goal attainment

Desired Previous Experience/Education

• Bachelor's Degree
• 2+ years of experience in leading and delivering large and/or complex projects/programs
• 2+ years of experience with multiple departments in Merchandising

Education Level: Bachelor's Desired
Required Travel: Up to 25%
Required Certifications/Licenses: None
Position Type: Full-Time
Regions: Any; General Office- Cincinnati; Mid-Atlantic; Midwest; Mountain; South; West

States: Alabama; Alaska; American Samoa; Arizona; Arkansas; California; Colorado; Connecticut; Delaware; District of Columbia; Federated States of Micronesia; Florida; Georgia; Guam; Hawaii; Idaho; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Kentucky; Louisiana; Maine; Marshall Islands; Maryland; Massachusetts; Michigan; Minnesota; Mississippi; Missouri; Montana; Nebraska; Nevada; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New Mexico; New York; North Carolina; North Dakota; Northern Mariana Islands; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Palau; Pennsylvania; Puerto Rico; Rhode Island; South Carolina; South Dakota; Tennessee; Texas; Utah; Vermont; Virgin Islands; Virginia; Washington; West Virginia; Wisconsin; Wyoming
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Jobs at Kroger: At Kroger, we hire people who have a passion for helping others and who want to build a relationship with our Customers. No matter what stage of your career, you can build your future at Kroger. We look for people who want more, aspire to be more and work hard to achieve their goals. Our focus on keeping the Customer first is what makes us successful. As the largest traditional grocery chain in the U.S. and one of the world's largest retailers, we employee more nearly half a million Associates across 35 states. We offer many opportunities not only in our stores, but in Manufacturing, Logistics, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, and many other fields.

Company Overview: Kroger Family of Companies employs nearly half a million associates who serve over 11 million customers daily through a seamless shopping experience under a variety of banner names. At The Kroger Co., we are Fresh for Everyone™ and dedicated to our Purpose: To Feed the Human Spirit®. We are committed to creating #ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities by 2025. Careers with The Kroger Co. and our family of companies offer competitive wages, flexible schedules, benefits and room for advancement.

Posting Notes: OH || Cincinnati || 1014 Vine Street || 45202 || Kroger General Office || [[mfield2]] || Analytics & Execution || Employee || Exempt || Full-Time || None