Area Merchandising Manager - Atlanta, GA

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

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The primary purpose of the Area Merchandising Manager - Atlanta is to work with the store management teams and ensure a successful merchandising program. This position will analyze individual store performance, train store staff on the 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.

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; Multi-Unit experience preferred
knowledge of Microsoft Office, and personal productivity software, including word processing, spreadsheet, and Outlook applications.
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.
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, and superior customer service skills.
Regularly required to talk and hear.
Requires standing and walking, with some bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing.
Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Must be able and willing 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

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