Lead a strategic focus area of the eCommerce portfolio to accelerate long-term profitable eCommerce growth. Define business objectives to achieve long-term growth goals. Understand customer needs, pain points, and opportunities, and key barriers to business growth. Create the end-to-end strategy for how we will address primary barriers and grow the business. Be the champion for the business, ensuring cross-functional alignment, prioritizing outcomes and supporting enablement teams in executing the strategy to deliver intended outcomes. Understand and provide visibility for the rest of the organization into performance and what we must do to optimize and accelerate growth. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.
Responsibilities- Share business insights, drive alignment with cross-functional teams on business strategy, set cross-functional priorities and collaborate with teams to execute business strategy to drive growth.
- Understand customer behavior leveraging customer data and insights (quantitative and qualitative) to create business strategy and ensure our offering meets customer needs and drives long-term customer loyalty
- Drive business growth by understanding key customer and operational barriers and opportunities and creating the strategy to accelerate growth, acquiring new customers and growing customer loyalty.
- Serve as the Business lead on strategic initiatives, creating the end-to-end strategy in alignment with broader eCommerce strategy, setting clear cross-functional priorities, and ensuring initiatives deliver maximum ROI.
- Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
Minimum
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of experience in growth marketing, eCommerce business management, corporate strategy, or financial analyst role
- Strong problem‑solving, critical‑thinking, and strategic‑storytelling capabilities
- Comfort working in fast‑paced environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
- Proficiency with data tools
- Strong project leadership skills with the ability to prioritize work, manage timelines, and ensure initiatives deliver maximum impact
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present to leadership
Desired
- Advanced degree (e.g., MBA or Master’s in Business, Analytics, Marketing, or related field)
- Background in environments that rely heavily on customer insights, digital behavior, and cross‑functional collaboration
- Proven success leading cross‑functional strategic initiatives
What you’ll receive from us:
The Kroger Family of Companies offers comprehensive benefits to support your Associate Well-Being, including Physical, Emotional, Financial and more. We'll help you thrive, with access to:
- A wide range of healthcare coverage, including affordable, comprehensive medical, dental, vision and prescription coverage, through company plans or collective bargaining agreement plans.
- Flexible scheduling in full- and part-time roles with paid time off, including holiday and sick pay based on eligibility and length of service.
- Emotional and financial support with free counseling through our Employee Assistance Program and free, confidential financial tools and coaching with Goldman Sachs Ayco.
- Valuable associate discounts on purchases, including food, travel, technology and so much more.
- Up to $21,000 in tuition reimbursement over your career, through our industry-leading Continuing Education program.
- Vast potential for growth, through an abundance of industry-leading training programs and diverse career pathways.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years of experience in growth marketing, eCommerce business management, corporate strategy, or financial analyst role
- Proficiency with data tools
- Strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, and strategic-storytelling capabilities
- Comfort working in fast-paced environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
- Strong project leadership skills with ability to prioritize work and manage timelines
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including ability to present to leadership
- Advanced degree (MBA or related)
- Background in environments that rely heavily on customer insights and digital behavior
- Proven success leading cross-functional strategic initiatives
Kroger Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kroger and has not been reviewed or approved by Kroger.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage in many union divisions has been protected or improved in recent contracts, with some regions avoiding proposed cuts and others expanding spousal coverage and strengthening short‑term disability. Mental‑health resources and 24/7 access are also emphasized, supported by third‑party recognition in recent years.
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Retirement Support — Retirement options include a company 401(k) with a match and, in many union roles, access to pension or variable annuity plans that have been stabilized through recent agreements. Match levels and pension participation vary by division and role, so specifics require local confirmation.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Education assistance through “Feed Your Future” offers substantial tuition support for both part‑ and full‑time associates, alongside free financial coaching. Perks such as associate discounts and periodic Boost membership offers add incremental value to total rewards.
Kroger Insights
What We Do
At Kroger, we believe no matter who you are or how you like to shop, everyone deserves affordable, easy-to-enjoy, fresh food. This idea is embodied in our simple tagline—Fresh for Everyone™. Kroger ranks as one of the world’s largest retailers. We are nearly half a million associates across 2,800 stores in 35 states operating two dozen grocery retail brands and 34 manufacturing and 44 distribution locations, all dedicated to living our Purpose: to Feed the Human Spirit™. Together, we serve more than 11 million customers daily in our stores and online through convenient e-commerce options like pickup, ship and delivery, serving America through food inspiration and uplift. Customers love Our Brands, including the popular Kroger®, Private Selection® and Simple Truth® brands. Our own manufacturing plants produce many of Our Brands products, including breads, dairy products, meat and thousands of grocery items. We also believe in and are committed to doing our part to create #ZeroHungerZeroWaste communities by 2025.
