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The Elevate Business Partner plays a pivotal role in shaping the future direction of our organization. This role demands exceptional leadership skills to guide and coordinate broad organizational changes, spearhead change management and communication efforts, and refine strategic roadmaps to align with evolving goals. The Elevate Business Partner is responsible for evaluating the ROI of business initiatives, ensuring optimal allocation of operational resources, and monitoring and mitigating execution risks. This position will be responsible for leading our growth portfolio, helping to support omni-channel roadmap development to optimize investments and deliver share growth objectives.
What You’ll be Doing:
- Lead and inspire comprehensive organizational communication efforts.
- Create strategic roadmaps to set the vision for implementing new initiatives and manage the growth portfolio to sequence investments against enterprise priorities and share growth objectives.
- Evaluate business case ROIs across various initiatives using financial, business model, and scenario analytics to inform investment trade-offs and value realization.
- Ensure optimal allocation of capital, capacity, technology, and operational resources across the growth portfolio to maximize return and strategic impact.
- Anticipate obstacles and proactively implement strategies to avoid difficulties during implementation.
- Drive critical discussions and decisions in collaboration with senior leadership
- Hold owners accountable for deadlines & initiative milestones
- Co-create & track success metrics over time including financial outcomes, customer adoption, channel performance, and share growth indicators.
- Facilitate cost tracking & ROI of initiatives to inform portfolio-level investment recommendations.
- Define initiative solutions and business cases
- Assess portfolio performance and recommend reprioritization, acceleration, or pivot decisions based on financial return, strategic fit, execution readiness, and share growth potential.
- Develop and oversee detailed initiative plans
- Conduct analytics in support of in-flight initiatives including financial modeling, business model sensitivity analysis, and omni-channel performance assessment.
- Lead cross-functionally to drive productivity and solve problems
- Mobilize through regular testing & learning process
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree strongly preferred.
- 10+ years of retail or strategic business management with demonstrated experience in growth strategy, portfolio management, omni-channel transformation, or investment planning.
- Ability to lead dynamically and energize teams to learn and apply new skills/techniques to respond to business needs.
- Experience in project management and organizational change management.
- High emotional intelligence and strong relationship building skills.
- Proven experience leading cross-functional teams and managing complex initiatives.
- Strategic mindset and ability to connect enterprise strategy, customer behavior, competitive dynamics, and financial outcomes into actionable growth choices.
- Strong communication, organizational, and analytical skills, including the ability to translate financial, portfolio, and omni-channel insights into clear recommendations for senior leaders.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Experience with ROI evaluation and financial metrics
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- 10+ years retail or strategic business management with growth strategy, portfolio management, omni-channel transformation, or investment planning experience
- Experience in project management and organizational change management
- Experience evaluating ROI and financial metrics, including financial modeling and business case analysis
- Proven experience leading cross-functional teams and managing complex initiatives
- Strong communication, organizational, and analytical skills
- High emotional intelligence and strong relationship-building skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Meijer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Meijer and has not been reviewed or approved by Meijer.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
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What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better
