Area Merchandising Manager - Seattle, WA

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores • Oklahoma City, OK

21h • Remote

About The Position

The primary purpose of the Area Merchandising Manager is to work with store management teams to ensure a successful merchandising program. This position will analyze individual store performance, train store staff on expected merchandising execution standards, inspect and follow up on consistency and quality of execution, and maintain sales trends and margin growth to meet and/or exceed budgeted goals for locations within the assigned division. The position will be located in or near the Seattle, WA or P.NW area.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent required
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management or related field or equivalent years of work experience required
• 5 to 8 years of experience as a retail general manager or assistant general manager required
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, and personal productivity software, including word processing, spreadsheet, and Outlook applications.
• Strong selling and negotiating skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong leadership skills to motivate and train staff
• Solid long-range planning and development skills
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills
• Excellent decision-making
• Ability to work independently
• Superior customer service skills
• Must be able to travel 4-5 days per week to meet the inspection schedule.

Nice To Haves

• 2+ years of management or supervisory experience preferred
• 2+ years of merchandising experience preferred
• Accounting or financial budgeting experience preferred
• Multi-Unit experience preferred
• Knowledge in all phases of hotel management, including but not limited to: sales and marketing, daily management of all areas of operations involving human resources, food and beverage, budget management, rooms, housekeeping, maintenance, and landscaping.

Responsibilities

• Develop store teams’ knowledge of sales and margin growth through consistent execution of merchandising strategies
• Work with each store management team to analyze and develop successful merchandising programs centered on team development, training, and follow-up
• Perform in-store quarterly merchandising inspections to help in the development of the teams to create a consistent level of merchandising throughout assigned stores
• Communicate with various operations teams on all aspects of merchandising issues and follow-up items on a daily basis to ensure consistency
• Work with outside vendors to ensure merchandising programs are run according to Love’s standards
• Foster a collaborative working relationship with vendor partners and store teams to ensure positive and profitable merchandising performance
• Analyze assigned store's profit and loss statements and sales trends
• Ensure assigned stores maintain sales and margin growth by meeting and/or exceeding budgeted goals
• Responsible for follow-up on the execution of all active promotions within the assigned store
• Responsible for developing talent in assigned stores to become "merchandising champions" within your assigned division
• Additional tasks and all other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, or genetics.
• Compliance with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment.
• Policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager