What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Merchandise Presentation position at Tractor Supply?
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- Advise business stakeholders of new system needs and ways to make systems and business processes more efficient and employees more productive.
- Work directly with the Information Technology department to identify systems, develop requirements, test, and system deployment.
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
Other 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.
Company Overview
Tractor Supply Company (TSCO), the largest rural lifestyle retailer in the United States, is dedicated to enhancing our strong company culture built on our Team Members’ commitment to our Mission and Values. With over 2,000 stores in 49 states and an innovative e-commerce platform, Tractor Supply ranks in the Fortune 300 with annual revenues of more than $12 billion and growing! Come grow your career with us as we serve those who live “Life out Here”!
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Tractor Supply Company offers a competitive Benefits package, including Medical, Dental, & Vision plans, to all Full-time Team Members as well as Part-time Team Members who are deemed eligible based on a minimum hours requirement. In addition, TSC offers access to other Benefits such as a Health Savings Account, Life Insurance, 401(k), and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
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