The WeMRKT at WeWork is a brand new, in-building amenity, providing WeWork members and visitors with a one-stop shop full of healthy and convenient snacks, office essentials and unique gifting solutions. WeWork member-made creations are prominently featured in the WeMRKT, with over 50% of SKUs coming from established and emerging WeWork member companies.

About Retail at WeWork:

WeWork has evolved from providing flexible workspaces for individual members to building a world-wide community of makers to create their life’s work. Under the WeMRKT brand, WeWork leverages its vast experience, market penetration, and economies of scale to deliver a marketplace to incubate and catapult our member creations.  To support this rapidly growing offering, we’re scaling our best in class team and looking for a dynamic leader to lead the success of the product assortment of emerging and established retail, food and beverage products.

The Senior Manager of Product - Food & Beverage, reporting into the Director of Purchasing, Retail F&B, manages the assortment and success of the food and beverage products for WeWork’s WeMRKT platform.

About the Role:

This role is fantastic for a dedicated food and beverage professional, who is fluent in working with both perishables and non-perishables.  As the primary food and beverage category manager for WeMRKT, this role will build out seasonal product assortments to drive the success of food and beverage. A focus of this position is on  discovering and launching emerging brands and curating a fresh food solution for WeMRKTs across the world.
 

Fresh Food:

• Manage locally-focused Culinary Pop Up program and provide regional leadership with standard operating procedures
• Work with supply chain team on building a perishables program
• Integrate meat-free and sustainability initiatives into fresh food strategy

Non-Perishables:

• Create seasonal assortment strategy for non-perishable snack products and beverages
• Incorporate culinary trends and seasonality into programming

F&B Merchant Strategy:

• Own category performance - conduct category reviews and meet and exceed category sales and COGS goals
• Utilize data to analyze and forecast results - create adjustment and improvement recommendations
• Build visual merchandising guides for in-store execution
• With guidance from senior leadership, establish retail price strategy, gross profit, and sales objectives for F&B category
• Negotiate and maintain competitive costs for all suppliers; seek to improve cost positioning through terms negotiation and payment method optimization
• Own new item set up process by ensuring data integrity from suppliers and coordinating efforts with storefront, master data, and operations teams

Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in grocery, food or beverage grocery or retail environment
• Resourceful and effective decision maker with strong analytical skills
• Must have a strong understanding of inventory, cost of goods, forecasting systems
• Strong negotiation skills
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Entrepreneurial attitude and ability to thrive in a fast paced, ambiguous, dynamic environment
• Passion for building community and delivering exceptional customer experiences