Senior Manager, Frontline Transformation

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year vision for IRIS as AB’s image recognition platform and program engine (cooler doors today; menus next; future adjacencies as proven).
• Define how IRIS creates value across the commercial system: measurement to insights to action to incentives to growth.
• Establish and run roadmap governance: intake, prioritization, stage gates, go/no-go decisions, and executive steering routines.
• Lead the roadmap for continuous improvement of cooler door recognition (coverage, accuracy, user experience, reporting, and operational scale).
• Own end-to-end delivery of menu recognition:
  Define product scope (menu photo capture standards, recognition outputs, confidence thresholds, exception handling).
• Stand up pilots with wholesalers / regions and scale nationally with repeatable playbooks.
• Ensure outputs translate into business actions (distribution targets, activation opportunities, compliance tracking, incentive program integration).
• Own the data backbone required for IRIS to scale: label taxonomies, product library/master data alignment, model output pipelines, and reporting readiness.
• Build the strategy and operating rhythm to drive adoption across the wholesaler system and internal teams.
• Own external model-development partners: performance management, delivery quality, roadmap alignment, and SOW governance.
• Serve as the leader for IRIS across Category Capabilities, EDGE, Sales Ops, Regions, AB ONE, Wholesaler partners, and Senior Leadership.

• Bachelor’s degree highly preferred.
• 8–12+ years in product management, program leadership, category/field enablement, or digital transformation.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional programs in a matrixed environment with senior stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated vendor management and delivery oversight (SOWs, milestones, performance).
• Strong analytical and operational mindset: ability to define KPIs, interpret data, and run action plans.
• Strong communication skills (executive-ready storytelling; clear written and verbal updates).
• Proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel.
• Experience with image recognition, computer vision programs, or data-driven measurement systems, preferred.
• Knowledge of category space concepts (share-of-space, planograms/realograms, assortment and execution insights), preferred.
• Familiarity with agile delivery models and tools (e.g., Azure Dev Ops), preferred.
• Understanding of the US wholesaler system and On-Premise execution realities (menus, activations, draft/rotations, chain vs independent), preferred.