Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores-posted 4 months ago
Full-time • Mid Level
West Valley City, UT

The primary purpose of the Area Merchandising Manager 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.

  • 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
  • High School Diploma or equivalent required
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management or related field or equivalent years of work experience required
  • 2+ years of management or supervisory experience preferred
  • 2+ years of merchandising experience preferred
  • Accounting or financial budgeting experience preferred
  • 5 to 8 years of experience as a retail general manager or assistant general manager required; Multi-Unit experience preferred
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