BAKERY MERCHANDISING/SPECIAL ASSIGN (Finance)

Own and drive a product from vision, through design, to requirements and finally delivery. Facilitate within a larger cross-functional team to solve business problems. Drive the product vision as set by the Business Process Owner. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety. Minimum
- Bachelor's Degree computer science, business, marketing, management or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of category management experience
- Excellent oral/written communication skills and extreme attention to detail
- Excellent organizational and analytical skills
- Ability to identify metrics/key performance measures and use data to drive decisions that enhance the customer experience

Desired
- Any iterative product development (Agile) experience
- Any demonstrated leadership experience in category management- Set criteria for Minimum Viable Product to increase the speed/frequency with which enhancements and new capabilities are delivered
- Develop a product plan and deliver breakthrough experiences to market by working with technical and non-technical partners; measure output, improve execution and continuously deliver production expectations
- Identify opportunities to create best-in-class capabilities by leveraging customer feedback and team knowledge/expertise in order to connect company strengths with available resources
- Identify, measure, and improve key product catalog metrics to enhance the customer experience, and create compelling, relevant product vision using customer loyalty/insights, customer feedback/research, and internal operational metrics
- Create highly collaborative cross-functional partnerships across the Kroger organization
- Create and communicate project and product roadmaps, including near-term delivery and 1-2 year product evolution, to engage stakeholders across the organization in aligning and supporting company and business unit strategies
- Identify product requirements and future enhancements through collaborative engagements to support product strategies
- Travel to work locations to attend company meetings
- Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation