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About The Position

Requirements

• Ten (10) or more years of progressive merchandising, category management, procurement, or retail leadership experience, including significant experience leading fresh food, meat, seafood, or perishables categories.
• Proven executive leadership experience managing teams, developing talent, leading through influence, and driving accountability across cross-functional partners.
• Demonstrated success owning financial outcomes, including sales growth, margin expansion, inventory productivity, shrink management, vendor funding, and profitability.
• Strong strategic planning, analytical, negotiation, and decision-making skills with the ability to translate complex data and market insights into executable business plans.
• Deep understanding of retail store operations, merchandising methodologies, supplier management, fresh product standards, logistics, and food safety or regulatory requirements.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with executive leaders, operations teams, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders while representing the best interests of the Company.
• Excellent executive communication skills, including the ability to present business strategies, financial performance, recommendations, and risk assessments to senior leadership.
• Strong change leadership, problem-solving, prioritization, and organizational skills with the ability to lead multiple enterprise initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Food Industry Management, or related field a plus
• Bilingual English and Spanish preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise merchandising strategy for Meat and Seafood, including assortment architecture, pricing, promotional strategy, innovation pipeline, seasonal planning, and category growth priorities.
• Own department-level financial performance, including sales, gross margin, shrink, vendor funding, inventory productivity, and profitability; identify risks and opportunities and drive corrective action.
• Establish and communicate a clear short- and long-term strategic vision for Meat and Seafood merchandising aligned with Company goals, customer needs, market trends, and competitive positioning.
• Lead high-impact negotiations with strategic supplier partners, including cost, terms, promotional investment, supply commitments, service levels, vendor funding, and innovation support.
• Build and maintain executive-level supplier relationships that support long-term category growth, product quality, value, freshness, and supply continuity.
• Partner with procurement, replenishment, supply chain, operations, pricing, marketing, finance, and store leadership to ensure seamless execution of merchandising plans and self-distribution strategies.
• Oversee category review processes, business planning, performance reviews, and scorecards to ensure data-driven decisions and consistent execution across banners and store formats.
• Champion customer-focused assortment and merchandising innovation, including new item development, multicultural relevance, local market differentiation, and value-driven solutions.
• Guide schematic, space planning, adjacencies, fixtures, and merchandising standards to optimize the customer experience, operational efficiency, and return on invested capital.
• Develop business cases for capital investments, store layout changes, equipment, fixtures, and other strategic initiatives for review by senior leadership.
• Lead, coach, and develop category managers, purchasing support, and dotted-line merchandising partners; establish goals, accountability, succession plans, and performance expectations.
• Serve as a senior merchandising leader and thought partner, providing recommendations, insights, and updates to executive leadership on business performance, market dynamics, and strategic priorities.
• Ensure compliance with applicable product standards, food safety expectations, supplier requirements, and Company policies while promoting a culture of integrity, collaboration, and accountability.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Pay Scale $200-$230k