Field Merchandise Manager, Fresh Food and Prop Bev

7-Eleven • Washington, DC

4d • $105,000 - $110,000 • Onsite

About The Position

7-Eleven is an iconic family of brands with over 86,000 locations, surpassing every retailer in the world. We revolutionize convenience, restaurants and fuel through cutting edge innovation — working hard to be the customer's first choice. 7-Eleven empowers our employees to "activate awesome" and make a meaningful impact in their stores and communities every day. If you're ready to grow, lead and make a difference, come join our team and help shape the future of convenience. JOB SUMMARY: Food and Proprietary Beverage Field Merchandise Managers report into Zone Merchandise Leader and supports Field Operations with the Merchandise Categories Food and Prop Beverage.

Requirements

• Bachelors/4 Yr Degree preferred; experience will be considered in lieu of degree
• 3+ years YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
• Strong Communication Skills to align resources in the field and SSC.
• Must be able to clearly articulate issues and recommended solutions.
• Experience in driving and delivering results on enterprise projects.
• Leader who has great ability to influence without authority, highly collaborative with others.
• Leader who is highly organized to accomplish aggressive deadlines and minimize Operation disruptions.
• Must be able to prioritize tasks effectively with minimal supervision.
• Must demonstrate ability to present data in a clear format to identify trends.

Responsibilities

• Support Operations with local Field Merchandise Specialists in Food and Prop Beverage.
• Support Strategic Marketing and Merchandising Initiatives in each Zone/Region/Market with calibration, coaching, process improvements and follow up.
• Ensure vendor accountability on in stock of top sellers and service levels while driving sales activities.
• Capture any local only funding available for local vendor execution / activations.
• Lead Region and Market execution of Merchandising strategy of Food and Prop Beverage plans, WMC, and Store resets, and coach Als and MLs in Merchandising Best Practices
• Lead local verification and market analysis to identify and address area performance gaps and opportunities in Food and Prop Beverage.
• Assist in communicating merchandise strategies and plans to the field and field initiatives back to SSC for support and alignment.
• Assist Operations to achieving financial targets.
• Serve as a communication conduit that provides both Ops and SSC Merchandising real time data and feedback on how to better meet customer needs in each operating area.
• Enables improved Merchandise and Operation integration and effectiveness.
• Drive total store Sales and GP$ growth in Vault and Prop Beverage by coaching and living the basics of RI/TK (educate operations to execute and optimize).
• Assist in Optimizing product assortment quality and inventory turns.
• Identify and eliminate local opportunity gaps to drive improved sales, margin and GP$ growth in Food and Prop Beverage.
• Improved field planning and coordination with execution of 52-week Calendar.
• Identify, test, and recommend high potential regional products, programs, vendors, activations in Food and Prop Beverage.
• Strengthening operational knowledge through field calibrations.
• Identify and assist Operations in closing key gaps of new items, top sellers, programs, and categories to drive sales.
• Optimize quality of inventory by executing recommended assortment and the identification and testing of high potential regional new items or vendor opportunities.
• Provide feedback to Merch SSC to enable proper vendor/item set up / testing, etc and ongoing management as well as provide feedback to remove obstacles and enhance merchandise team effectiveness.
• Through education and coaching, bring value to both our Operations and Merchandise team partners by driving RI, sales and GP$.
• Food and Prop Beverage schematic calibrations and execution.
• Competition shopping- pricing, promos and messaging.
• Lead Non Alc and Alc Reset Regional schedules.
• Driving Non Alc and Alc display execution for Big Bets.
• Placement and execution of coolers, barrels and racks.
• Understand and coach strategy by door in Food and Prop Beverage.
• Leveraging QDs (quantity discounts).
• Prop Bev Extensive equipment knowledge (Cleaning, Programming of IDC Pro and Franke)
• Equipment experts
• National and regional assortments to include new item introduction.
• HBET/CBET knowledge and training.
• Regional execution of tests to include clear communication on project initiative.
• Regional execution of flavors, retails, and products.
• Evaluate Prop Bev retail opportunities versus competitive landscape

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

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