VP of Commercial Planning

The Fresh Market & You:: Our mission is to make everyday eating extraordinary for our guests. We create a warm, welcoming, memorable experience with exceptional, personal service . We’re looking for a new team member who strives for excellence and brings positive energy, commitment, and a “can-do” attitude to work every day . We value teamwork and celebrate our successes as a team and will value your contribution! Added Benefits for choosing The Fresh Market Team: Team member discount up to 40% Health, Dental & Vision insurance available for individual, spouse, partner, and family. 401K contribution and match for part-time and full-time team members. Personal time off and additional time off purchase plans available. And much more! About the Position:: The Fresh Market currently has an opening for a VP of Commercial Planning for our Store Support Center in Greensboro, NC. As a key member of the Commercial Leadership Team, this enterprise leader is responsible for integrated Commercial planning and activation, translating the Commercial Strategy into clear priorities, coordinated actions, and measurable outcomes across Pricing & Promotions, Merchandise Execution, Vendor Engagement, Supply Chain, and enabling functions. The VP builds the operating rhythms, capabilities, tools, insights, and cross-functional accountability required to move from strategy to execution, deliver the plan, and create an exceptional guest experience. This role will report to the Chief Commercial Officer. What You'll Do:: Serve as a key member of the Commercial Leadership Team, helping set Commercial priorities, shape enterprise decisions, and drive shared accountability for delivery of the integrated Commercial agenda. Translate the Commercial Strategy into an integrated activation roadmap, including the capabilities, tools, processes, milestones, ownership, dependencies, and measures of success required for delivery. Lead the Commercial activation process, connecting strategy, business priorities, and key merchandising levers, including pricing and promotions, merchandise presentation, supply chain, vendor engagement, and store execution, through a disciplined go-to-market rhythm. Align cross-functional partners around clear deliverables, decision points, dependencies, and measures of success. Establish strong Commercial governance and operating mechanisms, including annual and quarterly activation roadmaps, cross-functional forums, decision rights, performance reviews, and issue escalation. Create an integrated view of Commercial performance, connecting financial, guest, competitive, promotional, vendor, supply chain, and execution insights to identify opportunities, surface risks, and focus leaders on the actions that matter most. Strengthen execution across channels, including in-store and digital, through better workflows, communication, automation, and alignment across Commercial, Digital, and Store Operations. Advance pricing and promotion capabilities and activation to improve competitiveness, margin performance, promotional effectiveness, and MDI/MDM data quality. Lead the Supply Chain organization and work with distribution partners to improve product flow, availability, accuracy, service levels, and end-to-end execution of Commercial priorities. Lead the Vendor Engagement function, establishing the strategy, engagement model (including top to top meetings and joint business planning), communication rhythms, and negotiation capabilities required to strengthen vendor partnerships, improve commercial outcomes, and ensure alignment with The Fresh Market priorities. Build strong partnerships across Merchandising, Marketing, Store Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, IT, Digital, and Cencosud to drive integrated enterprise outcomes. Lead and develop a high-performing team with deep expertise in Commercial activation, analytics, pricing and promotions, merchandise presentation, vendor engagement, supply chain, execution, and program…

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