Director of Center Store Merchandising

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Albertsons-Safeway's Northern California Division has an opening for a Director of Center Store Merchandising.

The Director of Center Store Merchandising leads a team of sales managers and department specialists to create plans and drive sales and profit in the center store merchandising department for Safeway in Northern California. You will be responsible for leading the strategic direction of Center Store Merchandising including Grocery, Frozen, Dairy, NOSHE, and GM/HBC, ensuring department plans stay aligned with the Division’s overall strategies as well as with the strategies produced at Corporate Merchandising.

This alignment includes ensuring the successful execution of Corporate Merchandising, Division, and Department business initiatives, programs, and plans and meeting or exceeding financial targets. This role collaborates with Corporate Marketing and Merchandising to ensure business plans that reflect local, regional and industry trends.

The Director of Center Store Merchandising is responsible for setting the standards for the workplace culture and environment within their department and will report to the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Merchandising for the Northern California Division of Albertsons Companies.

Responsibilities

• Planning:
  Develops sales and merchandising programs to support overall merchandising strategy. Supports the efforts of the national team while ensuring the local relevance of the banner. Ensures all metrics by category including sales, gross profit, shrink, and allowances are validated and accurately forecasted. Redirects team when financial target and business plans change or are not met.
• Advertising/Promotions:
  Ensures overall promo strategy includes local relevance and provides input into national strategy. Supervises and ensures that the promo activities meet the go-to-market strategies of the Division. Directs the execution of the promo strategy to ensure alignment with other related strategies. Collaborates with SVP of Marketing/Merchandising and Marketing team to develop ad themes for period planning and annual planning processes.
• Product Assortment and Presentation:
  Ensures execution of assortment and presentation plans and have the right production the right stores. Gives input into schematics/plan-o-grams (POGs). Attends store layout, fixtures meetings, and provides input on how store-layout and fixtures will look in the stores. Provides feedback to Corporate Merchandising in planning and execution related to all new, remodeled, and existing layouts to ensure local needs are met.
  
  Ensures product mix is competitive within the Division’s markets.
• Pricing:
  Approves pricing strategies and decisions. Ensures the Sale Managers execute pricing strategies, gross profit, and initiatives that are competitive in their market.
• Sourcing:
  Oversees local vendor relations. Ensures the Sales Manager sources local items/vendors to support local programs. Partners with Procurement and Distribution to ensure that local programs are supported.
• People Leadership:
  Leads, coaches, and develops Center Store Merchandising team. Responsibilities include interviewing, candidate selection, training, delivering performance reviews, talent development and succession planning for the Center Store Merchandising team.

• Strong organizational and supervisory skills with the capability to manage large teams effectively.
• Goal-oriented focus with demonstrated ability to identify, develop manage and motivate teams to achieve desired results while driving company initiatives.
• Strong knowledge base and financial background in supermarket retail and an understanding of consumer behavior in…