Senior Manager, Merchandise Planning

Sprouts Farmers Market • Phoenix, AZ

3d

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Merchandise Planning will lead a team that partners with merchandising to drive the overall financial and strategic objectives of the organization. The Senior Manager will oversee a team of analysts — driving key planning, forecasting and reporting processes, and analyzing the business to identify opportunities/risks that drive results through sales and gross margin. The Senior Manager, Merchandise Planning requires collaboration and analytical leadership across multiple projects. The Senior Manager will engage with cross-functional teams to ensure a shared understanding of customer behaviors, category strategies, financial and marketing plans, and all other key business drivers. This team will be responsible for analyzing and interpreting data to drive decision-making and delivering key insights that drive growth and efficiencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or a related field is required.
• Grocery or retail experience required.
• Seven or more years of experience with progressively increasing responsibility in a retail merchandise planning role, category management, or retail consulting (or related fields).
• Three or more years of experience building, leading, supervising teams.
• Experience with budgeting, planning, modeling and forecasting systems.
• Analytical mindset with detail orientation and entrepreneurial work ethic.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence.
• Highly adept in various systems, including superior Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Comfortable manipulating large amounts of data and problem-solving, generating impactful recommendations – bringing insights to action.
• Demonstrated skill with root cause analysis; able to spot when something isn’t quite right and audit with limited guidance.
• A structured and creative thinker, able to toggle easily between the big themes and the little details.
• A humble leader with a collaborative style, who can self-manage, define and execute new processes and strategies.

Nice To Haves

• MBA Preferred.

Responsibilities

• Leads the development of medium/long-range financial planning and annual budgets across a wide array of vendor, customer, and merchandising segments.
• Leverages a combination and planning systems and custom financial models to support accurate planning and influence decision making.
• Leads sales and margin forecast processes and summarizes forecast highlights, business drivers, risk and opportunities for merchandising department.
• Responsible for achieving all components of the merchandise plan, including sales and margin.
• Develops holistic understanding of category, consumer, and competitive dynamics; translates them into category plans that optimize revenue, margin, pricing and assortment.
• Provides analysis and recommendations to achieve department revenue and profit goals.
• Leverages consumer insights and data, combined with a structured test-and-learn approach, to maximize growth opportunities.
• Oversees creation of weekly and monthly presentations for merchandising leadership.
• Drives reporting on key business metrics, including department/category performance analysis.
• Accountable for team development to include recruiting, training, development, and succession planning.
• Serves as project lead for ad hoc projects by managing objectives, deliverables, and key milestones with minimal supervision.
• Develops analytics and tools for supporting merchandising, promotional planning and forecasting.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
• Vacation accrual plan
• Opportunities for career growth
• 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
• Flexible schedules
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!
• Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
• Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Company paid short-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
• Paid holidays
• DailyPay - access earned wages on demand

What This Job Offers

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