EDUCATIONLEVEL:

• Retail Management Certificate preferred, but not required.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, or related field preferred, but not required.
• 15 total years’ experience in grocery industry preferred, but not required.
• 5 yrs. experience managing people.

EXPERIENCELEVEL:

• Previousstoreoperationsexperienceorsimilarexperiencewhereastrongunderstandingofoperationsand merchandising approaches has been gained.

SKILLSANDEXPERIENCES:

• Good understanding of store operations and merchandising methodologies and practices, P&L, and financial management.
• Strong financial, mathematical, statistical, marketing, merchandising, and consumer research background to read, interpret, and understand how internal and external factors influence financial results.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills and experienced in taking initiative and making decisive yet appropriate decisions.
• Strong planning and organizing skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills as well as excellent interpersonal skills to develop and maintain effective business relationships within and outside the company.
• Strategy development skills
• Relationship management skills
• Demonstrated effective leadership skills and abilities.
• Understanding of inventory management.

• AssistwithtotalstoreCustomerServicefortheDivision.
• Creates yearly category business plan based on detailed analysis of previous results and market trends.
• Meets or exceeds projected sales and profit contribution.
• Creates a detailed pricing strategy by zone by category and maintains approach throughout the year.
• Creates and implements a promotional calendar by major category, which supports division merchandising strategy. Tracks results at end of each promotion in terms of sales, profit and share growth or contribution.
• Maintains weekly, quarterly, and yearly scorecards to track sales, gross profit dollars and share of each category.
• Measures total contribution to the entire department.
• Manages and maximizes categories to achieve most efficient use of vendor dollars.
• Creates sales and gross profit projections at the category level, rolling up to department and division projections quarterly and yearly.
• Conducts in depth post-promotional analysis at the item and category level.
• Plans ads and displays in support of the category plans and total department initiatives.
• Coordinates and communicates between stores, merchandising and other departments in the division.
• Acts as contact within division for all vendors in categories assigned.
• Meets with vendors for deal negotiation and business updates.
• Works with procurement function. Communicate category and promotional plans to ensure desired service levels and optimum inventory position achieved.
• Attends key vendor planning meetings.
• Works in conjunction with others in department, across the division, and with corporate merchandising to facilitate implementation of programs.
• Visits stores as necessary to observe results of merchandising programs.
• Supports and implements Corporate initiatives when appropriate for division.
• Initiate and follow through on personnel actions such as: interviewing and providing input used in hiring decisions, providing input and/or conducting performance reviews.
  Qualifications:Thefollowingarepreferred: