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Topco Associates is currently seeking a Brand Manager to join the Brand Management team in Elk Grove Village, IL.     Topco Associates, LLC is a cooperative of around 50 of the nation’s regional grocery retailers and wholesalers that are our member-owners. Celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2019, Topco aggregates Own Brand volume and expertise for over 15,000 grocery stores. The Brand Management Team is responsible for championing the creation and growth of $3 Billion in Retail Own Brand Dollars including brands such as Food Club, Simply Done, TopCare, Full Circle Market, Crav’n Flavor, Tippy Toes, and Wide Awake.   Topco’s Brand Management Team develops and manages the brand portfolio and shopper engagement strategies to drive shopper loyalty at Topco’s grocery member retailers. These strategies enable each touchpoint or interaction an opportunity to strengthen our Own Brands equity and support achieving our members overall business objectives and corporate initiatives along with maintaining a positive corporate reputation in the market.   Under the direction of the Senior Brand Manager, the Brand Manager will be responsible for managing multiple Own Brands in various food or non-edible grocery channel product categories. Specifically, this individual is responsible for gathering and converting marketplace trends and shopper insights into solid brand strategies. The Brand Manager is expected to leverage established brand strategies to shape all go to market plans for each brand including but not limited to creative direction and messaging on product packaging and other shopper communication materials, product features and benefit claims, and portfolio category expansion plans. In addition, in partnership with cross-functional partners across the organization, this individual acts as a strategic advisor to our members across the United States.

Topco Associates is currently seeking a Category Manager for the Insights team in Elk Grove Village, IL.   One of Topco’s three core strategies is Knowledge Management. Recently, this strategy has taken on a much more important role, and additional focus is required at the business unit level. In this role, the Manager of Category Insights will serve as an analytic and category management expert using the category management process as a decision platform for all initiatives designed to optimize category strategy, assortment, distribution merchandising, pricing and promotional mix for Topco.   Category Insights Managers believe in leveraging information across all available sources to tell relevant and comprehensive stories.  We tell those stories to make actionable and meaningful recommendations that deliver profitable sales growth at Topco members and develop our place as trusted, strategic advisors.

Topco Associates is currently seeking a Category Manager for Seafood in Elk Grove Village, IL.   The Category Manager is responsible for the marketing, merchandising, and management of assigned product groups/programs in such a manner as to grow Topco program sales and enhance the competitive position and profitability of member companies.

Topco Associates is currently seeking a Category Analyst for the Deli team in Elk Grove Village, IL.   The Category Analyst is responsible for leading both the short term (day to day) and long term strategic sourcing strategy and execution for their categories.  They are responsible for ensuring that their categories are purchased at a total lowest cost of ownership, achieve maximum member participation, and enhance the competitive position and profitability of Topco member companies.  The Category Analyst is responsible for  achieving department goals, building and maintaining strong relationships with both members and vendors, working with Program Management to drive value add category results, implementing best practices and deliver overall excellent customer service to our members. A Category Analysts approximate threshold of category spend responsibility is <$100MM with a medium level of complexity in terms of #SKU's, #Suppliers, Domestic vs. Global Sourcing/Domestic, commodity, etc.    

Topco Associates is currently seeking an A/R Manager for our Treasury department in Elk Grove Village, IL.   The A/R Manager will manage, develop and coach the A/R department to ensure all A/R balances are collected on time while also maintaining positve relationship and ongoing communication with Topco's member owners. Provide in-depth analysis of cash application, deductions and collection processes with the objective of achieving better control and maximizing efficiency.

Topco Associates is currently seeking a Business Analyst to join our team in Elk Grove Village, IL.    The Business Analyst will support the Topco Product Transparency Initiative by managing various activities and analysis to facilitate the implementation and ongoing maintenance of Topco and Member brands within the program.  The Analyst will synthesize external and internal data and track progress to ensure continuous delivery of all elements within the workflow. Through monitoring of the data and output quality, the Analyst may identify process gaps, which will require problem solving with stakeholders and subject matter experts. The Analyst’s principal responsibility will be to facilitate the transfer of data, formulate and interpret reports, and take corrective action as needed in order to deliver a successful program to Topco and its members.

Topco Associates is currently seeking a Business Analyst for the Center Store Operations team in Elk Grove Village, IL.    The Business Analyst will be responsible for supporting the Sourcing Team at Topco in delivering accurate, robust, and complete analysis of assigned sourcing events. The Business Analyst will be tasked with managing the timeline of assigned sourcing events keeping the Sourcing Team informed of progress and on target to meet the committed completion date of all sourcing events.

Topco Associates is currently seeking a Sourcing Analyst for the Center Store Grocery Sourcing team in Elk Grove Village, IL.   The Sourcing Analyst is responsible for leading the short term (day to day) strategic sourcing strategy and execution for their categories under the supervision of their sourcing lead. They are responsible for ensuring that their categories are delivered to the member at a total lowest cost of ownership, achieve maximum member participation, and enhance the competitive position and profitability of Topco member companies.  The Sourcing Analyst is responsible for achieving department goals (productivity), and working with their program counterpart to drive value added category results and innovation.  The Sourcing Analyst is also responsible for the daily execution of the transactions for their categories including cost uploads, productivity reporting and responding to supplier/member inquiries.  The Sourcing Analyst will manage less than $65MM in Procurement spend.

Topco Associates is currently seeking a Project Manager to join our team in Elk Grove Village, IL.    The Project Manager will be a strategic partner within the business who will manage the activities of a variety of key project and process-based initiatives in order to improve operational efficiencies across the Topco organization. In partnership with other team members, they will develop project scope and define deliverables, act as project champion/owner, monitor all activities for day to day execution of initiatives, manage all documentation and reporting, and develop and manage timelines, schedules, milestones and action items throughout the intiative's lifecycle to meet the anticipated project completion date.  The PM will manage risk by identifying and communicating potential issues that may affect scope, budget and project timelines.  The PM will communicate professionally and work with internal/external stakeholders to develop solutions and rely on experience and judgement to plan and accomplish goals.

Topco Associates is currently seeking a Category Insights Analyst for the Category Insights team in Elk Grove Village, IL.   One of Topco’s three core strategies is “Knowledge Management”. Recently, this strategy has taken on a much more important role, and additional focus is required at the business unit level. In this role, the Category Insights Analyst will serve as analytic and category management advisor using the category management process as a decision platform for all initiatives designed to optimize category strategy, assortment, distribution merchandising, pricing and promotional mix for Topco. The Category Insights Analyst will provide data-driven customer-focused insights to help meet and exceed volume and market share objectives.

Topco Associates has an exciting newly open role for a Talent Acquisition Manager, who will be responsible for leading talent acquisition strategy, inclusive of the management of full life cycle recruiting (i.e., recruiting at all levels of the organization, managing policies, metrics reporting and workflows within our ATS (iCIMS).    The objective of this role is to deliver a qualified and diverse pool of candidates to hiring managers both effectively and efficiently. You will develop and maintain a pipeline of top talent for critical roles. You will work closely with Business Leaders, the HR team and other key stakeholders to analyze business goals, identify talent needs, and/or gaps associated with those goals, and develop and implement programs to find the right talent - internally and externally. Success in this role will be demonstrated by effectively executing the recruitment strategy ensuring the right talent is ready at the right time for any given opportunity. Also critical is building strong relationships with the business, being a catalyst and playing a key role in influencing the entire recruitment process.

Topco Associates is currently seeking a Commodities Manager to join our team in in Elk Grove Village, IL.   Topco Associates, LLC is a privately held company providing procurement solutions for its leading food industry member-owners and customers, including grocery retailers, wholesalers and food service companies.  This position will be responsible for analyzing levels of commodity risk present in various areas of Topco. Identify and protect against commodity fluctuation where applicable. Work with various Topco departments as well as the membership to develop optimal procurement strategies that maximize risk avoidance. Verify vendor price changes using applicable commodity data. Responsible for developing/maintaining forecast models to aid procurement strategies. Responsible for developing/delivering presentations at applicable Member Action Committee meetings, as well as for individual members.