Flexible Work Policy: The work for the Manager, Digital Content Enrichment position is completely remote anywhere in the United States except Hawaii or United States Territories. RESPONSIBILITIES  - Own the content enrichment strategy for key product categories, ensuring alignment with merchandising and digital commerce objectives. - Champion user-centered content practices that improve the customer experience and leverage structured metadata to enhance product findability, filterability, and conversion. - Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Content Enrichment Specialists, setting priorities and managing daily execution. - Establish and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) to track content quality, completeness, customer experience, and impact on digital merchandising performance. - Oversee the development and governance of content standards, attribution guidelines, and regulatory compliance frameworks. - Serve as the central point of contact across departments for enrichment projects, category launches, and cross-functional content initiatives. - Partner with product information management (PIM) and IT teams to evolve enrichment tools, workflows, and automation capabilities. - Collaborate with vendors to streamline onboarding and content delivery processes, ensuring adherence to defined standards. - Other duties as assigned by manager. SUPERVISION: - 4 direct reports RELATIONSHIPS - Internal: Primary partnerships include PIM, IT, Analytics, Marketing, Category Management, Merchandising, and Sales leadership teams. - External: Build relationships with all suppliers servicing US Foods. WORK ENVIRONMENT - Remote: This role is fully remote, and the associate is expected to perform assigned responsibilities from a home-based environment. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - 5 years’ experience in foodservice, retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), eCommerce, digital content operations, product data management, or digital merchandising. - Supervisory experience. - Experience partnering cross-functionally and engaging directly with customers or end users to improve content experience. - Strong comfort with technology platforms and digital tools - Advanced proficiency in Microsoft applications and data analytics tools, such as Tableau, Sigma, Adobe Analytics, and Google Analytics - Strong understanding of eCommerce fundamentals, including on-site search, product classification taxonomy, structured metadata, and product detail page (PDP) optimization - Experience in analytics-driven content or data initiatives, including defining KPIs, monitoring performance, identifying friction points, and translating insights into actionable optimization strategies. - Ability to lead process improvement and technology-enabled change, including partnering with IT, PIM, or product teams. - Proven people and change leadership skills, including fostering a growth mindset, coaching team members through ambiguity, managing competing priorities, and driving adoption of new processes or standards. - Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment, demonstrating agility, initiative, and strong communication skills. - Up to 10% travel. EDUCATION - Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, or similar field required. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - 8 years’ experience in food service, retail, CPG, eCommerce, digital content operations, product data management, or digital merchandising required. This role will also receive annual incentive plan bonus. Benefits for this role may include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html

• Develop and maintain a cohesive content strategy that supports brand positioning, organic discoverability, and thought leadership. • Own the editorial calendar across web and social, informed by SEO, AEO, audience insights, and business priorities. • Create, edit, and optimize content across formats, including blog posts, social content, web pages, emails, and light multimedia. • Ensure content reflects Concord’s brand voice, messaging standards, and content governance guidelines. • Own day-to-day management of Concord’s organic social media channels, including LinkedIn, YouTube, and Meta/Instagram. • Plan, publish, and optimize social content to increase reach, engagement, and follower growth. • Use social media as a discovery engine by aligning posts with SEO and AEO priorities, keyword themes, and high-performing content. • Monitor social trends and platform best practices to identify new opportunities for visibility and engagement. • Apply SEO and AEO best practices to content creation and optimization across web and social channels. • Partner with Demand Generation to ensure content supports organic search performance and AI-driven discovery. • Use performance insights to refine topics, formats, and distribution strategies. • Partner with Product Marketing to translate product narratives and thought leadership into accessible, audience-focused content. • Collaborate with internal and external creative partners, including Concord’s Public Relations partner, to produce high-quality content efficiently and aligned with campaign objectives. • Track and report on audience reach and engagement for organic content and social media, using insights to guide ongoing optimization.

About the role The Content Strategist has deep and wide knowledge of the end-to-end creative and digital landscape – with specialized knowledge of how content can make experiences both more effective and affective. The ideal candidate understands all aspects of content strategy: how to build it into projects, how to integrate with other capabilities, when we need which deliverables, and how to best execute. This is a contract position Responsibilities - Editorial content strategy (All discovery phase CS, including content inventories and content assessments, holistic transformation content strategy, and content planning). - UX content strategy (All design phase CS, including content audits, gap analyses, taxonomies, copy and content planning for both design and migration). - Delivery content strategy (All build phase CS, including content matrices, workflows and governance, guidelines, migration support). - Building the department and content strategy practice at Verndale through the delivery of exceptional work. - Educating both internal and external teams on the benefits of content strategy and how it can enhance the user experience. - Scoping and estimating of projects. - Presenting polished, client-ready deliverables, ideas, project updates, etc. - Leading through inspiration, example, advocacy, and mentoring. Qualifications - 3 - 5 years experience creating overall guiding strategy for large-scale content experiences - Must have considerable knowledge and expertise of a wide variety of platforms and content management systems (like Sitecore, Opti, etc.) and the end-to-end digital transformation process, including the steps of a redesign, migration, and all related content strategy activities. Ten Great Reasons to Work at Verndale - We are a rapidly growing company that is just as scrappy and entrepreneurial today as when we were founded in 1998. - We are relentlessly curious and enthusiastically solve our clients’ complex business problems through technology, data, and design. - We foster a culture that enables every person in the organization to do the best work of their career. - We offer regular training and professional development to move careers forward. - Client and employee satisfaction are our two most important business metrics. - We celebrate and champion diversity, equity, and inclusion. - We offer generous paid company holidays, vacation, and paid sick time to every employee starting on day one. - We offer top-of-the-line Health Insurance, plus monthly perks customized to meet individual employees’ needs. - We support a healthy work/life balance. - We are fully remote enabled and embrace the evolving definition of the workplace Compensation & Benefits In accordance with applicable law, the salary range provided is Verndale's reasonable estimate of the base salary for this role. The actual amount may vary, based on non-discriminatory factors such as location, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities. In addition to salary, Verndale also offers a competitive benefits package. Verndale is proud of the fun, diverse, and respectful company environment we enjoy on a daily basis. Competitive compensation and comprehensive coverage for medical, dental, life, disability and a 401(k) savings plan are offered to all full-time employees. Ample company paid holidays and personal time off make having a work-life balance possible. For some roles, remote work is a definite possibility; we believe in hiring the best and keeping our own happy and motivated. Verndale is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

• Editorial content strategy (All discovery phase CS, including content inventories and content assessments, holistic transformation content strategy, and content planning) • UX content strategy (All design phase CS, including content audits, gap analyses, taxonomies, copy and content planning for both design and migration) • Delivery content strategy (All build phase CS, including content matrices, workflows and governance, guidelines, migration support) • Building the department and content strategy practice at Verndale through the delivery of exceptional work • Educating both internal and external teams on the benefits of content strategy and how it can enhance the user experience • Scoping and estimating of projects • Presenting polished, client-ready deliverables, ideas, project updates, etc. • Leading through inspiration, example, advocacy, and mentoring