Division Merchandise Manager Corporate , UT

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Details ID: 21500

Posted: 04/26/2024

Expires: 05/26/2024

Department: Purchasing

Shift Info Type: Full-time

Shift(s): Monday - Friday

Hours: 8:00am - 5:00pm

Wage Info Wage/Salary:80K+

Wage/Hourly: Other

Description

Mission Statement: At Sportsman's Warehouse, we provide outstanding gear and exceptional service to inspire outdoor memories.

Since 1986, when we opened our very first store in Midvale, UT, Sportsman's Warehouse has been on a remarkable journey. Today, we're proud to have grown to over 140+ locations across the United States and we're still expanding.

But our journey doesn't stop there. We're also committed to helping you craft your career path. At Sportsman's Warehouse, we believe in creating opportunities for individuals who are eager to begin their employment with us. We don't just offer jobs; we offer fulfilling careers with room to grow.

Benefits and Perks:

• Health, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Paid Time Off

• Industry Leading Employee Discounts

• Life Insurance

• 401K with Employer Match

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Supplemental Insurance - STD, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnification & Volunteer Life Insurance

• Employee Assistance Program

• On-site Gym Facility

• Employee Appreciation Activities

• Join us, where every day is an adventure!

Purpose of Position:

Accountable for leading multiple categories and category teams with the goal of delivering short- and long-term business objectives. Provides strategic direction, and merchandising leadership. Partners with suppliers to develop and manage assortments that best align with our customers’ needs. Through the collaboration of managing direct and indirect team members, leads the overall category management process, playing a vital role in assessing and making decisions that will affect business results.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership to develop category strategies, drive annual assortment planning, and build strong executional plans based on insights and vendor negotiations to optimize annual business results. This includes working collaboratively with a number of support functions including marketing, loyalty, owned brands, finance, and insights to develop fully integrated merchandising plans driven by consumer insights.

• Manages and mentors a team of category managers, buyers, assistant buyers, and data specialists.

• Responsible for leading the category review and planning process, utilizing cross-functional resources and multiple data sources to interpret customer data and insights to make strategic recommendations to optimize business performance. Key to the role is optimizing performance around key business metrics including sales, profit and share. Optimal outcome is developing assortment plans that helps Sportsman’s differentiate itself from the competition.

• Curate assortment utilizing consumer insights. Leveraging the outcome of category reviews, identify and recommend assortment options that factor in both national and regionally local trends. Understand the category roles and align the merchandising mix to be effective in tandem with the company’s merchandising strategy. Partner with E-Commerce and Marketing teams to help deliver a more compelling Omni-Channel experience for our customers.

• Optimize sales and profit through pricing and promotional effectiveness. Utilizing our promotional tools and data, constantly strive to build more effective promotional programs delivering against profit and sales targets.

• Manage KPIs with advanced knowledge of key drivers that deliver sustainable long-term results for the company. Ability to identify critical areas that are driving existing issues or potential opportunities. Through this have the ability to analyze, mitigate and/or take calculated business risks.

• Lead and develop all vendor relationships and joint business planning for key strategic vendors. Understands how to prioritize vendors and how to optimize vendor funding and resources to maximize business results.

• Use strong negotiation skills to drive COGS reductions on an ongoing basis.

• Partner with retail operations teams to understand the store needs and success criteria for merchandising programs. Build plans and initiatives that are easy for stores to execute and easy to understand. Build consistent communication platforms to assist in store education. Understand and drive strategies that align to new, segmented store formats and clusters.

• Oversees and is accountable for determining the assortment and merchandise investment in for categories within span of control.

• Strong understanding of the role of Private Brands relative to individual categories. Acts as an advocate for the company’s brands making every effort to optimize growth where it aligns to category roles. Understanding the process of product development and product integrity and ensure team adheres to guidelines that enforce process efficiency and collaboration.

• Responsible for accurately assessing performance of staff and team, providing meaningful and timely coaching and feedback to assist in performance reviews.

• Manages the development of procedures to ensure merchandise is available to consumers at the start of marketing events and maintained at sufficient inventory levels to support all events.

• Lead and develop cross functional relationships to ensure we work well across divisions and disciplines.

  Requirements

Qualifications

• 6 or more years of relevant strategy and merchandising leadership experience, retail experience required.

• Experience creating merchandising plans for categories, to include, experience with customer analysis, market potential evaluation, and goal definition.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and managing staff, to include creating development plans, managing performance and selecting/recruiting.

• At least 5 years' experience negotiating with outside vendors, including negotiating contracts, prices, resolving service issues and reconciling differences.

• Experience with conducting and guiding analysis for market potential evaluation, pricing and promotions.

• Experience developing strategic initiatives which align with business goals and budget.

• Experience coordinating and facilitating executive management meetings.

• At least 5 years’ experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.

• At least 2 years’ experience of direct leadership and cross functional team leadership.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university

• At least 5 years’ of category experience/expertise

Key Skills:

• Deep understanding of merchandising, marketing and planning processes and interrelationships of buying, marketing, in-store presentation and selling functions required. Experience across a variety of merchandise categories sectors preferred.

• Exceptional leadership, interpersonal, collaboration, and motivation skills with the ability to work across the organization required.

• Strong analytical, critical, and strategic thinking skills with the ability to effectively develop and refine strategy required.

• Excellent negotiation and influential skills are required.

• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills are required.

• Ability to mentor and lead a team of Category Managers and buyers to deliver outstanding results.

• Understanding of the retail business, marketplace and relevant technologies with excellent business and financial acumen is required.

Travel Requirements:

• Willing to travel up to 25% of the time for business purposes (within the state and out of state).

Sportsman’s Warehouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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E.O.E.

Sportsman's Warehouse is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.