Product Development Manager, Beverages

7-Eleven • Irving, TX • 1h ago

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Job ID R26_3573 Address 3200 Hackberry Road, Irving, Texas, 75063, United States Location Irving, Texas

7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation - working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience.

Product Development Manager will help support the development of new products and packaging for the business unit. Will cultivate consumer insights, market data and trends that help their business unit identify opportunities to grow Private Brands, while also owning overall category performance through ongoing sales evaluation, promotion planning, and cross-functional partnership. As a key member of their business unit, this person will work within their team to understand customer needs, create innovative products, and lead a significant portion of the development process.

Responsibilities:

Support the Private Brand Team's vision and strategy into a pipeline of innovation and continuous improvement initiatives.

Analyze and monitor key financial indicators weekly, monthly, quarterly to achieve portfolio performance targets vs budget; sales, units, gross margins, and profit goals.

Lead the product development process for a sub set of categories to include; opportunity identification, consumer testing, establishment of success criteria, packaging development and post-launch performance verification.

Partner with the Sr. Category Manager to develop a strategy that supports their business unit, serving as the key executional contact point with the supplier partner and internal stakeholders to gain alignment and bring high-impact platforms to market.

Develops, implements and manages full product lifecycle of new and existing products, establish retail and promotional pricing strategy for the Private Brand assigned categories by collaborating with Sr, Product Development Manager, Category Managers and other internal stakeholders.

Manages the product development process, providing data related to the opportunity, the marketplace, product positioni ng, revenue and unit forecasting.

Partner and influence cross-functional teams to gain alignment on objectives and targets to achieve business results.

Work collaboratively with the Category Team and Category Support Team to provide all critical information to facilitate product execution instore.

Provide input regarding the management of existing private brands assortments, including opportunities for expansion, promotion and rationalization of items.

Coordinate with Supply Chain on supplier setup, route to market, and inventory management to meet established goals.

Lead the execution of product sampling / tasting panels with potential consumers as well as in-house product reviews.

Provides Operations Team, Franchisees and stores with consumer and product information that enhances product knowledge to make informed decisions on new platforms, programs, in-store placement and how to maximize profitability in Private Brands.

Develop and maintain strong supplier relationships; hold suppliers accountable to performance agreements and implement course corrections and mitigation strategies as needed.

Partner with user experience and customer research teams to drive insights into customer segments and shopping behaviors.

Assist in the development of the Associate Product Development Manager and ensure their activities align with the priorities of the business unit.

Qualifications:

Bachelors/4 Year Degree.

5 years category management or product development, with private brands experience preferred.

Retail and/or Manufacturing experience are strongly preferred.

Skilled using marketing metrics, consumer insights and data to drive business decisions.

Proven problem-solver.

Excellent written and verbal communication with attention to detail.

Time-management skills.

The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and to manage multiple, competing priorities.

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If an hourly or salary range is included in this ad it represents the range 7-Eleven in good faith believes is the range of compensation for this role at the time of this posting. The Company may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in this state. This range may be modified in the future. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, long-term incentive compensation, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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