Commercial Strategy Analyst II (Hybrid)
Address: USA-IL-Chicago-300 South Riverside Plaza
Store Code: Omnichannel Deployment (27095)
What’s Our Dish
Announced in May 2018, Peapod Digital Labs (PDL) is an Ahold Delhaize USA company that powers the eCommerce and digital strategies for the Great Local Brands of Ahold Delhaize USA. Accelerating growth in digital and personalization capabilities, PDL is an innovation lab focused on meeting the changing needs of customers, regardless of when, where, and how consumers choose to shop.
Browse The Aisles
Peapod Digital Labs and the Commercial Strategy Team are driven by putting the customer at the center of all they do and are constantly looking for ways to evolve the omnichannel grocery experience. We are seeking a positive, enthusiastic, team oriented individual who wants to help tackle the organization’s highest-priority commercial strategic initiatives and identify continued near and long-term strategic opportunities. The position will have exposure to our various leaders across our Brands (Stop & Shop, Giant Martin, Giant Foods, Food Lion, and Hannaford) and Functional Leadership teams.
Strategy Analysts work with the Strategy Managers and Leads to:
- Cross-functionally help shape successful business plans and strategic decisions through the assessment of the current environment and marketplace.
- Develop strategic recommendations for the organization, often developing supporting analytics and presentations
- Participate in key team discussions and to share analysis, viewpoints and rationales
- Assist with various ad hoc analysis, reporting and presentation development, often in partnership with key cross-functional stakeholders
People who will do well in this role often have the following traits:
- Comfortable with ambiguity and project-based work, able to bring focus and structure to drive initiatives forward
- Creative, structured, and objective problem solver, both conceptually and analytically
- Creative and enjoys creating presentations and telling a story through visuals
- Collaborative, enjoy working on teams, and comfortable leading without authority
- Dynamic thinker and presenter who can work well with all levels of an organization
- Ready to work hard in a fun and fast paced environment to create tangible change
Recipe for Success- What's “in store” for the role
- Work with key stakeholders and cross-functional departments on large initiatives and strategies – schedule meetings, take meeting notes, send meeting recaps
- Create presentations to help drive work forward and gain alignment on critical issues which often will require the art of storytelling within presentations (input provided by a manager on presentation content)
- Help drive annual strategic planning and integrated business planning process through analysis and researchwith manager’s guidance
- Conduct and/or maintain performance scorecards on key strategic initiatives across the organization as well as strategic competitive analysis and trends reporting, sharing insights to Leadership
Additional responsibilities for Commercial Strategy Analyst
- Completes market scans and research to better understand the competitive landscape
- Performs market scans to better understand market changes and possible new strategic opportunities
- Evaluates industry innovation across CPGs, fresh and Private Brands
- Attends tradeshows as applicable to better understand new innovation and competitive landscape
The Essentials In Your Cart-The required ingredients
- Bachelor's degree required
- 2-4 years of strategy, process execution in grocery retail industry, CPG experience and/or consulting industry preferred
- Existing eCommerce or commercial retail experience is a plus
- Creative, structured, and objective problem solver, both conceptually and analytically
- Collaborative, enjoy working on teams, and comfortable leading without authority
- Dynamic thinker and presenter who can work well with all levels of an organization
Extra Spices - What you should bring to the table
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with cross-functional teams, and executives
- Ability to understand new concepts quickly and work in a fast paced dynamic work environment
- Domestic travel required with minimal notice required up to 20% per year.
- Produce deliverables with manager’s partial guideance
Join Us at Our Table
Peapod Digital Labs is a forward-thinking company with a strong legacy of innovation. We recognize who powers our progress – our people! We offer a great variety of benefits and perks to our employees, including: great health care options, including PPO and HSA plans (with company contributions), dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, a 401k with strong company match and immediate vesting, and generous and flexible paid time off.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Job Requisition: 256327_external_USA-IL-Chicago_8302022