Senior Merchandising Space and Content Strategist

Whole Foods • Austin, TX

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About The Position

The Senior Merchandising Space and Content Strategist at Whole Foods Market is a pivotal role within the Retail Marketing team, responsible for creating captivating retail environments that enhance the customer experience across stores in the US and Canada. This position combines long-term strategic thinking, creative vision, and data-driven analysis to drive in-store business growth and showcase the brand's core values of quality, sustainability, and community.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree and 4-6 years relevant experience OR equivalent combination thereof
• Passion for Whole Foods Market core values, company mission and actively lives Whole Foods Market leadership principles
• Understanding of retail execution fundamentals, including visual merchandising, affinity, marketing collateral
• Demonstrated understanding of the WFM business, food retail industry and competitor business models
• Ability to engage with other leaders to formulate the organization’s go to market strategy
• Ability to lead and motivate Team Members to advance projects amid complexity, ambiguity & change
• Ability to foster a collaborative working environment, inspiring cooperation and leading through influence
• Ability to form strong partnerships and create common ground with multiple stakeholders across WFM to ensure the effective delivery of Merchandising Processes and Systems
• Experience analyzing data and turning it into actionable insights
• Experience in providing clear, actionable verbal and written communication to large groups and leaders
• Experience in building out innovative, effective tools and reporting vehicles
• Business maturity and the ability to offer sound recommendations and make key decisions
• Self-starter, ability to identify opportunities and problems and find solutions
• Excellent organization and time management skills, strong project management or operations background
• Strong attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Supports the determination of annual seasonal marketing themes
• Provides recommendations to merchant teams for how to support marketing themes
• Partners with merchant teams to plan merchandising for marketing themes and seasonal priorities
• Contributes to the development, facilitation, and communication of an enterprise cross-merchandising strategy
• Supports merch planning and implementation for dedicated, off-shelf and shared space displays
• Ensures merchandising content is regionally and locally relevant
• Creates and delivers the Retail Execution Planner content for Merchandising teams to Retail Operations
• Assesses audience feedback of the Retail Execution Planner and implements adjustments where appropriate
• Contributes to seasonal and holiday retail execution planning and communication
• Identifies and implements additional merchandising specific, store-facing content in the Retail Execution Planner
• Contributes to communication platform development as a subject matter expert
• Collaborates with Retail Marketing Team on process development
• Holds contributors accountable to deadlines
• Builds relationships with Store Support and Store Operations teams

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Food and Beverage Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree