Mgr, Merchandise Presentation

Overall Job Summary

This position is responsible for managing the use of all retail space inside and outside of Tractor Supply Company stores. This includes managing internal resources and external vendors, communicating TSC merchandising strategies and standards to the stores, production of shelf strips and point of purchase materials, accurate site/SKU replenishment coding, managing legal / illegal products by market, and more.  This person is accountable for the performance of all individuals within their group, all day to day operations of the group, and ensuring an environment with an extremely high degree of accuracy in a deadline driven environment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Min 5%)

• Supervise a team of Senior Space Planners, Space Planners, and Visual Presentation Specialists.  Direct the efforts to ensure merchandise plans support the goals of all merchandising divisions, information is consistently managed across the team, and ensure cross-functional collaboration within the team.
• Direct team to develop and communicate executable merchandising plans to the field for all line reviews, sales driving initiatives (SDI) and planogram refreshes that meet the requirements for multiple store types, footages, merchandise assortments and fixtures.
• Manage the planogram process to maintain documentation, implement in stores, and ensure compliance with all standards. Feedback and ideas are documented and used to refine future assortments. 
  • Accountable for the team’s maintenance and management of Article – Planogram – Site relationships in SAP and IKB, which drives SKU to Site replenishment coding. 
  • Accountable for planogram integrity, including assigned SKU’s, point of purchase (POP) representation and fixture information.
  • Assign, maintain, and manage planogram combinations specific to each site for the chain, and proactively communicate program assignments via SAP to Inventory Management team, ensuring proper assortments to be replenished accordingly to proper stores.
  • Direct sales driving initiative communication plans (SDI page), ensuring all relevant information is communicated to stores allowing for each of execution.
  • Administer Merchandise Presentation area of the company’s intranet site (The Barn), including posting planograms, floor plans, and other related materials.
• Conduct pre- and post-analysis of planograms
  • Provide buying teams insight into customer-trends, product replenishment, shelf space allocations, merchandising strategies, retail space planning metrics and management objectives at SKU, category, cluster, and departmental level; to assist with the final selection of merchandise mix and changes. 
  • Provide analysis of store types and merchandise assortments by extracting, to analyze the performance of stores, planograms, clusters, departments and shelf space.
  • Identify space imbalances, determine profitability and determine non-performing clusters, planograms, and SKUs.
  • Manage vendor(s), integrity of data interfaced with vendor(s), and internal and external process of Shelf Strips.  Ensure all strips are accurate and within timeline in their arrival to stores.
• Collaborate with buying teams to develop, test, consolidate and communicate comprehensive planning strategies to the chain, that coordinate with current merchandise presentation strategies while identifying opportunities and risks.
• Collaborate with the Fixture Planning team in the development of fixtures and POP that fit within Tractor Supply guidelines and budgets.
• Collaborate with Marketing on signing and POP materials to ensure programs are executable and sustainable at store level.
• Manage, prepare and monitor store labor estimates which outline projected operational labor hours by month and zone for the chain.  Determine the amount of time required to execute programs while monitoring the overall monthly store labor totals, to ensure undue labor is not required of the stores. Communicate to Store Operations the upcoming merchandising initiatives.
• Implement and maintain store signing programs and standards.
• Handle needs assessments and cost/benefit analysis to align current and future technology and business processes with the department’s and company’s multi-year strategies. 
  • Advise business stakeholders of new system needs and ways to make systems and business processes more efficient and employees more productive.

Required Qualifications

Experience: 7+ years of professional Space Planning experience including managing operations of stores and/or multi-unit management

Education: College degree in Retail & Consumer Science, Business, Marketing, and/or equivalent work experience.  Any suitable combination of education and experience will be considered.

Professional Certifications:  JDA Space Planning Professional Certification, Level I and II – preferred

Preferred knowledge, skills or abilities

• Proficient in Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite specifically Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InDesign, Photoshop and ability to quickly learn technology – required.
• Local and national travel, laptop provided – required.

Working Conditions

Physical Requirements

Disclaimer

This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position.  It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities.  A team member should perform all duties as assigned by his/ her supervisor.

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