Retail Merchandise Manager PT

Michaels Stores•Conway, NH

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Merchandise Manager drives merchandising and operational execution, including truck processing, inventory routines, planogram sets, and visual standards. This role ensures accurate pricing, timely promotional execution, and a customer-ready store environment through strong workload planning and inventory management. The Merchandise Manager will also provide Manager-on-Duty (MOD) coverage, maintaining floor leadership, service standards, and operational continuity. They will lead truck execution processes, ensuring timely unloading, accurate sorting, and efficient flow of merchandise to the sales floor. This role owns workload planning and daily task prioritization, partnering with store leadership to align staffing and execution to business needs. They will execute and maintain SISO (Store-In-Stock Optimization) routines to drive in-stock levels, replenishment accuracy, and sales readiness. The Merchandise Manager will oversee Planogram (POG) execution, ensuring merchandising sets are completed accurately and on schedule, and establish and maintain visual merchandising standards, including initial product placement and presentation to company expectations. They will support a clean, organized, and customer-ready store environment, including backroom organization and sales floor recovery. This role manages key aspects of inventory control, ensuring product accuracy, integrity, and efficient stock movement. They will execute ad sets, ensuring promotional signage and product placement are compliant and customer focused, and complete price changes accurately and on time, maintaining pricing integrity across the sales floor and systems. The Merchandise Manager will oversee Ship from Store fulfillment, ensuring orders are picked, packed, and shipped efficiently and accurately. They will process RTVs (Return to Vendor) and ASN receiving, ensuring compliance, documentation accuracy, and proper inventory adjustments. This role manages store damages procedures, ensuring proper handling, reporting, and shrink reduction. Additionally, they will train, coach, and develop team members through structured TM onboarding and ongoing skill-building across assigned departments, and partner in maintaining strong Asset Protection practices, reducing shrink through awareness, compliance, and safe operations. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

3+ years retail leadership experience

Responsibilities

Assist Store Manager in leading and managing adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Company programs to ensure compliance with applicable laws and requirements.
Ensure execution of Company policies and standards, holding team accountable for store conditions and results.
Provide Manager-on-Duty (MOD) coverage, maintaining floor leadership, service standards, and operational continuity.
Lead truck execution processes, ensuring timely unloading, accurate sorting, and efficient flow of merchandise to the sales floor.
Own workload planning and daily task prioritization, partnering with store leadership to align staffing and execution to business needs.
Execute and maintain SISO (Store-In-Stock Optimization) routines to drive in-stock levels, replenishment accuracy, and sales readiness.
Oversee Planogram (POG) execution, ensuring merchandising sets are completed accurately and on schedule.
Establish and maintain visual merchandising standards, including initial product placement and presentation to company expectations.
Support a clean, organized, and customer-ready store environment, including backroom organization and sales floor recovery.
Manage key aspects of inventory control, ensuring product accuracy, integrity, and efficient stock movement.
Execute ad sets, ensuring promotional signage and product placement are compliant and customer focused.
Complete price changes accurately and on time, maintaining pricing integrity across the sales floor and systems.
Oversee Ship from Store fulfillment, ensuring orders are picked, packed, and shipped efficiently and accurately.
Process RTVs (Return to Vendor) and ASN receiving, ensuring compliance, documentation accuracy, and proper inventory adjustments.
Manage store damages procedures, ensuring proper handling, reporting, and shrink reduction.
Train, coach, and develop team members through structured TM onboarding and ongoing skill-building across assigned departments.
Partner in maintaining strong Asset Protection practices, reducing shrink through awareness, compliance, and safe operations.