Job Summary
Lead the Health, Beauty & Wellness Businesses including all buying, promotional planning and merchandising functions with the mission of further developing and growing the business while achieving or exceeding budgeted financial goals.
Job Description
Experience Required: 5 to 10 years; At least five years merchandising experience;
Professional affiliations/groups within OTC, supplement, beauty and/or nutrition
Experience Desired: Category Manager experience
Experience Required: People management experience
Education Desired: Bachelors Degree
Job Responsibility
Serve as primary strategic leader for team of merchandising professionals in area of responsibility by fostering and environment of intellectual curiosity, life long learning, empowerment, accountability, respect, trust, and work-life balance.
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Partner with e-commerce team to build holistic plans to integrate a best in class Giant Eagle/Market District ecosystem approach to business.
Drives strategy, and policy, that allows our guests to get what they want, when and how they want it, in surprising and fun ways.
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Manage & lead the Health, Beauty & Wellness Businesses to achieve annual financial goals, including sales objectives, retail and wholesale gross margin, wholesale income, shrink, known loss, inventory turns and service level, making strategic and tactical adjustments as necessary.
Responsible for the development of strategic plan and annual operating plan (budget) in accordance with HBW LOB strategic goals and organizational needs.
Partner with Beauty/Personal Care leaders, with the goal of learning how to reorient and manage a high performing team.
Supervise and support staff by setting clear objectives, ensuring the preparation of Development Action Plans, providing ongoing feedback and coaching to prepare staff for potential advancement opportunities.
Inform Leadership, so they can develop and maintain productive relationships with vendors, stores, logistics, distribution, marketing, wholesale and retail accounting and space management to insure all constituencies' voices are heard.
In partnership with Beauty/Personal care leader, establish and execute a dynamic promotional plan.
Act as the central merchandising and buying interface for all formats, working cooperatively with the merchandising counterparts for each banner.
Directly responsible for OTC, Nutrition, Personal Care, and Beauty categories including assortment, pricing strategy, promotion planning and day to day operation of the business.
Work cooperatively within a team consisting of multiple health and wellness businesses, sharing best practices and identifying opportunities for improvement.
Comply with all federal, state and local laws as they pertain to HBW merchandising.
Design and execute consumer/customer insights focused business plan with the end goal being increased share and greater in-market household penetration, frequency of shops and basket size.
Establish strong relationships with Retail Leadership via regular communication.
Aggressively bubbles up forward running strategic/tactical opportunities to flex out of declining businesses and into new/highly visible growing businesses.
Take a holistic view of the business by mindfully considering information from our Company's suite of analytics tools and state of business reports while creating their business strategy.
Drive holistic, sustainable, total margin improvements through the day to day management of all aspects of Margin Planning, re-forecasting, and adjusting among these profit levers to achieve total goal.
About Us
At Giant Eagle Inc.
, we’re more than just food, fuel and convenience.
We’re one giant family of diverse and talented Team Members.
Our people are the heart and soul of our company.
It’s why we strive to create a nurturing environment that offers countless career opportunities to grow.
Deep caring and solid family values are what makes us one of the top work places for jobs in the Greater Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus and Indianapolis Areas.
From our Warehouses to our GetGo’s, our grocery Stores through our Corporate home office, we are working together to put food on shoppers' tables and smiles on their faces.
We’re always searching for the best Team Members to welcome to our family.
We invite you to join our Giant Eagle family.
Come start a lasting career with us.