Business Development Specialist

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!

Meijer Rewards

• Weekly pay
• Scheduling flexibility
• Paid parental leave
• Paid education assistance
• Team member discount
• Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

What You'll be Doing:

• Provides project management for all Meijer Manufacturing's new business and product development projects and programs to drive manufacturing growth in support of overall company-wide performance metrics.
• Sets up and manages specific project or program timelines. Reviews project plans for consistency and standards adherence. Manages cross-functional dependencies.
• Leads and facilitates cross-functional weekly project status update meetings. Adjusts project plans and resolves issues as necessary.
• Responsible for developing internal and external customer relationships and managing customer satisfaction.
• Executes packaging transitions in coordination with own brand and manufacturing plants to minimize throwaways/ cost impacts.
• Researches market trends and industry standards to assist in the development of new business, and new Product Development. Provides direction/input to product development leads and integrates activities with other cross-functional teams to ensure successful implementation and support of current projects.
• Collaborates with the Business Development Manager in the execution of the co-manufacturing strategy to support manufacturing growth.
• Conducts analysis for assigned function and provides recommendations based upon results and the application of knowledge and judgment.
• Delivers reports regularly on select development metrics and other key performance indicators.
• Assists in / may lead development and deployment of metrics to analyze plant performance compared to co-packer and merchant expectations.
• Participates in implementation of corporate product flow strategies, methods and guidelines.
• This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; performs other duties as assigned or required.

What You Bring with You (Qualifications):

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain/Logistics/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Focus on Meijer CTC skills, with strong passion to compete and customer first.
• 1-3 years of experience in supply chain preferred.
• Proven ability to learn on-the-job and acquire new technical skills.
• Demonstrated strong abilities in relationship management.
• Demonstrated competency in the execution of multiple projects including managing resources across multiple projects to meet goals.
• Analytical skills / ability to apply analytical methods and use specific tools by function. Ability to determine multiple sources for data mining.
• Strong intellectual strength, comfortable with dealing with complexity and ambiguity. Requires creative thinking with ability to solve problems / develop practical solutions.
• Self-starter with leadership qualities and goals
• Comfort working in teams or individually; able to build positive rapport with colleagues, business partners and vendors.
• Planning and process management skills required with the ability resolve problems and manage multiple tasks.
• Excellent informing skills with the ability to provide information that enables the decision-making process

We opened our doors more than 85 years ago with the goal of helping people provide for themselves and their family. Today we’re a multi-billion dollar retailer with more than 70,000 employees across six states. Our Midwest geography includes corporate offices in Grand Rapids, Michigan, plus manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and over 240 stores across Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Meijer is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are committed to treating all persons with dignity and respect. Meijer's policy is to not discriminate because of any applicant or team member's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, religion, age, physical or mental disability, uniformed service or veteran status, or any other lawfully-protected classification. If you have a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of your application, please click here to submit your request. Submissions that are not seeking help to complete the application due to a disability will not be responded to.