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The Senior Manager, Strategy is responsible for leading project work in support of strategic initiatives at US Foods. This includes identifying and quantifying business opportunities, analyzing data, communicating findings and recommendations to executive audiences, engaging with cross-functional teams, and supporting implementation.The work for the Sr Manager Strategy position is completely remote anywhere in the United States except Hawaii or United States Territories.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Project leadership: Own project deliverables, timeline, and success criteria; collaborate with internal analytics partners, business stakeholders, and Strategy leadership.
- Analytics and solution development: Leverage advanced methods and tools to analyze business problems; synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights and develop clear, concise, and fact-based recommendations.
- Communications: Create executive-level written materials and present to senior audiences.
- Field enablement: Develop training, standard operating processes, and tracking capabilities to enable field execution against corporate initiatives.
- Department support: Collaborate with members of the Strategy team and support consistent and ad-hoc project needs.
- Other duties as assigned by manager
SUPERVISION:
- Team of up to 2 Senior Analysts
RELATIONSHIPS
- Internal: Strategy team and key internal stakeholders
- External: External customers and vendors, as applicable
WORK ENVIRONMENT (Select one)
- Remote: This role is fully remote, and the associate is expected to perform assigned responsibilities from a home-based environment.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- 6 years of demonstrated successful experience in analytical roles
- Strong analytical, problem solving and technical aptitude; experience in gathering and analyzing data with attention to detail and a high level of accuracy, completeness, responsiveness, and accountability.
- Demonstrated motivation to build consensus, lead workstreams, and drive progress on assigned projects.
- Clear, concise communicator able to interface with all levels of the organization.
- Strong written and oral presentation skills, including comfort presenting to senior management.
- Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
- Experience in data analysis and statistical inference.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, OR related quantitative field
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s degree.
- Prior management consulting, corporate strategy, retail, or pricing experience
- Prior retail and/or pricing experience
- SQL experience
This role may also receive annual incentive plan bonus and long-term incentive program.
Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html.
Compensation depends on relevant experience and/or education, specific skills, function, geographic location, and other factors as applicable by law (for example: state or local minimum wage thresholds). The expected base rate for this role is between
$110,000 - $175,000***EOE – Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Age/Genetic Information/Protected Veteran/Disability Status***
Skills Required
- Six years of demonstrated successful experience in analytical roles
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical aptitude
- Experience gathering and analyzing data with accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to build consensus, lead workstreams, and drive project progress
- Clear and concise communication skills across organizational levels
- Strong written and oral presentation skills, including presenting to senior management
- Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently
- Experience in data analysis and statistical inference
- Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related quantitative field
- Master’s degree
- Prior management consulting, corporate strategy, retail, or pricing experience
- SQL experience
US Foods Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about US Foods and has not been reviewed or approved by US Foods.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage with multiple plan options and day-one eligibility in many roles is highlighted as a relative strong point. Union agreements and company materials reinforce that health coverage is a core part of the total rewards package.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentives such as overtime, case/stop pay, and uncapped commissions often boost earnings in delivery, warehouse, and sales roles. Earnings can rise notably when hours are heavy or targets are met.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan is standard, and recent union contracts add pension coverage in some locations. Together these programs support longer-term financial security.
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US Foods is one of America’s great food companies and a leading foodservice distributor, partnering with approximately 300,000 restaurants and foodservice operators to help their businesses succeed. With 28,000 associates and more than 70 locations, US Foods provides its customers with a broad and innovative food offering and a comprehensive suite of e-commerce, technology and business solutions. US Foods is headquartered in Rosemont, IL, and generates more than $28 billion in annual revenue. Visit usfoods.com to learn more. ------------ Rules of Engagement Statement: We are proud to support community engagement on the US Foods LinkedIn page, and we're excited to see your comments, photos and videos. Please note that the views expressed by the community do not necessarily reflect those of US Foods. Before posting, please take a moment to read our rules for community content. We reserve the right to remove content that violates these rules. 1. Don't break the law. Content that appears to break the law or that advocates for breaking the law also is not permitted. 2. Be polite and courteous to everyone, even those you disagree with. This also means you may not post anything that is threatening, harassing, abusive, bullying, discriminatory, profane, sexually explicit, obscene, violent, gruesome, or similarly objectionable. 3. Stay on topic for this community and dialogue. Off-topic content may include but is not limited to irrelevant or out of context material, spam, promotional content, and links to third-party sites. 4. Follow LinkedIn's Terms and Conditions. 5. All posts must be by a real person and from a real profile. Content from fake or anonymous profiles is not permitted. 6. Our employees must also follow all of our applicable policies and guidelines, including but not limited to our Code of Conduct and Electronic Social Networking Policy
