Product Manager – Merchandising
AlbertsonsAre you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!
At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.
About this Role
The Merchant Category Strategy Product Team is seeking a Product Manager to lead initiatives that optimize category performance, enhance merchant decision-making, and drive strategic growth across our merchandising ecosystem. This role will focus on building tools and capabilities that empower merchants with data-driven insights, streamline category planning, to reflect merchant strategy.
Main responsibilities:
- Champion the needs of customers, merchants, vendors, business teams, and stakeholders throughout the product development cycle, ensuring that what is delivered meets user needs and enables better merchandising decision making.
- Ability to operate in areas of uncertainty and ambiguity.
- Partner with merchants and CPG teams to evaluate allowances, costs, promotions, and display/space plans, ensuring strategies are grounded in real trade practices.
- Use Circana, Nielsen, Symphony, and retailer monetization platforms to curate market trends, develop hypotheses, and test strategies for price, promo, and display planning.
- Act as a functional sense-check for pricing intelligence solutions - ensuring outputs align with what makes sense in the aisle, in negotiations, and in retail execution.
- Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to translate merchandising requirements into scoped technical solutions, providing ongoing guidance and validation.
- Drive hypothesis development and validation with merchants, using transaction data, competitive benchmarks, and market share analysis.
- Lead cross-functional working sessions to align trade partners, merchants, and analysts around recommendations and scenarios.
- Monitor performance against goals such as trade ROI, sales lift, basket mix, and profitability, sharing insights back to stakeholders.
- Responsible for communicating product solutions and benefits to customers and stakeholders; including knowledge transfer and training for on-going management of features.
- Flexible Career Path: Be prepared to adapt and expand into other areas of the retail domain over time, utilizing your core trade promotion expertise as a foundation for future growth within the company.
We are looking for candidates who possess the following:
- 7-10 years in merchandising, trade promotions, category management, or CPG commercial strategy, with direct involvement in allowance, cost, and promotional planning.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in business, Economics, Marketing, Data Science, Management sciences, Business Administration.
- Hands-on experience with retailer and CPG data platforms (Circana, Nielsen, Symphony, or equivalent).
- Strong functional understanding of retail pricing, promotion mechanics, space & display execution, and vendor negotiations.
- Demonstrated ability to work with both merchant operators and technical teams to ensure solutions reflect practical workflows.
- Track record of turning data analysis into actionable insights that shaped trade or merchandising decisions.
- Demonstrates strong analytical and critical thinking skills to identify root causes, evaluate complex data, and develop practical solutions.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to credibly engage at all levels - from merchants and department specialists to technical teams and executives.
Skills Required
- Pricing & Trade Promotion Strategy
- CPG & Retail Merchandising Expertise
- Data Analysis & Hypothesis Development
- Cross-functional Engagement (Merchants, CPGs, Technical Teams)
- Strong Communication & Stakeholder Management
We also provide a variety of benefits including:
- Competitive wages paid weekly
- Associate discounts
- Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
- Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay). For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
- Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
- An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve
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The salary range is $ 120,670 to $ 156,838 annually. Starting salary will vary based on criteria such as location, experience, and qualifications. There may be flexibility for exceptional candidates.
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