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Associate Merchant - Grocery - Full-time
•30 days ago
| Hours | Full-time |
|---|---|
| Location | 1 Bridge Street Irvington, New York |
About this job
THE JOB
The Associate Merchant (Grocery) works with their category team to manage and grow the assigned category(ies). This includes assisting in the selection, forecasting, inventory management, pricing, revenue, margin, vendor relationships, and promotions. Creating and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with vendors as well as a high level of knowledge about customer interests are critical to being successful in this position.
THE SKILLS THAT ARE NEEDED
Vendor Management:
Pricing and Marketing:
Category Management, Strategic Planning Execution and Inventory Supply Chain:
THE EXPERIENCES
Natural/organic grocery management experience preferred.
Product knowledge required.
Exceptional organization and attention to detail.
Strong financial analysis skills.
Strong decision-making, negotiation, and leadership skills.
Ability to multi-task and succeed in a fast-paced environment.
Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills.
Bachelor’s degree in business, retailing, management, sales, or marketing required.
Must have prior experience with product purchasing, negotiating, financial analysis, or inventory control.
Previous P&L management preferred.
Previous experience with planogram execution preferred.
Previous role(s) in category management, to include broker/vender/supplier relationships preferred.
Proficient using MS Office, Excel, database and word processing programs.
The knowledge, skills and abilities listed above may be acquired through levels of education and experience, however, any equivalent combination of education and/or experience, which provide an applicant with the listed knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job, is acceptable.
KEY COMPETENCIES
WORK WITH US TO SHARE THE GOOD
If the prospect of helping to create an exceptional customer experience while improving your knowledge on healthy living, you will love us! We are obsessed with our products, our customers and the benefits that organic foods deliver to the earth, our communities and the planet. Why we do what we do:
Love the Lifestyle
Learn & Teach
Laugh & Live Healthy
The Associate Merchant (Grocery) works with their category team to manage and grow the assigned category(ies). This includes assisting in the selection, forecasting, inventory management, pricing, revenue, margin, vendor relationships, and promotions. Creating and maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with vendors as well as a high level of knowledge about customer interests are critical to being successful in this position.
THE SKILLS THAT ARE NEEDED
Vendor Management:
- Effectively communicate in order to build cooperative relationships with national and local market vendors
- Maximize vendor profitability and contribution per SKU
- Develop new sources for ingredients, products and product development
- Develop strategic alliances based on innovation and product development
- Negotiate pricing, vendor programs, delivery, and payment terms
- Facilitate mutually beneficial agreements around promotional opportunities and support
- Be first to market in new products, innovation and points of difference
Pricing and Marketing:
- Work together with pricing and marketing making recommends on promotional pricing points in order to competitively position products
- Adjust pricing in order to manage flow of inventory and maximize productivity as determined by consumer demand
- Assist in building strong programs on pricing to support everyday essentials
- Through planogram use, effectively plan the shelving adjacency of products
- Partner with marketing in the development of marketing vehicles to support category goals and objectives.
Category Management, Strategic Planning Execution and Inventory Supply Chain:
- Lead, contribute to and execute parts of the strategic plan for the category
- Launch/expand successful programs and product lines and implement successful exit strategies for unproductive merchandise
- Launch line reviews in support of customer and seasonal expectations
- Monitor trends in new products, consumer behavior, share, competition, fixturing and store layouts to make informed decisions and initiate innovation
- Leverage fact-based decision making to drive growth and profitability.
THE EXPERIENCES
Natural/organic grocery management experience preferred.
Product knowledge required.
Exceptional organization and attention to detail.
Strong financial analysis skills.
Strong decision-making, negotiation, and leadership skills.
Ability to multi-task and succeed in a fast-paced environment.
Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills.
Bachelor’s degree in business, retailing, management, sales, or marketing required.
Must have prior experience with product purchasing, negotiating, financial analysis, or inventory control.
Previous P&L management preferred.
Previous experience with planogram execution preferred.
Previous role(s) in category management, to include broker/vender/supplier relationships preferred.
Proficient using MS Office, Excel, database and word processing programs.
The knowledge, skills and abilities listed above may be acquired through levels of education and experience, however, any equivalent combination of education and/or experience, which provide an applicant with the listed knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the job, is acceptable.
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Transformational Leader
- Owner, thinks like its “their company”, loves this lifestyle
- Leads Change through process, communication and most importantly by example
- Evangelist – speaks the vision, to everyone and very often
- Builds and Leads Great Teams
- Attracts great people, spots the best easily, people want to work for them
- Develops the bench
- Raises the bar on performance and celebrates the wins
- Figures It Out
- Always learning, loves getting smart on a topic, intellectually curious
- Proven technical/functional leader, can crack the code quickly
- Strategic Visionary, obsessed with trend, detail and what it “could be”
- Gets It Done
- Fast answer, right answer
- Prioritizes to win, knows the “need” to do’s vs the “nice” to do’s
- Understands the ROI and makes decisions using analytics and financial data
WORK WITH US TO SHARE THE GOOD
If the prospect of helping to create an exceptional customer experience while improving your knowledge on healthy living, you will love us! We are obsessed with our products, our customers and the benefits that organic foods deliver to the earth, our communities and the planet. Why we do what we do:
Love the Lifestyle
- We are consumed with our products: the taste, the benefits to ourselves and to the earth
- We choose to work at Mrs. Green’s because it is part of our lifestyle, not just a job
- We apply what we learn about our products each day to ourselves as well as our customers
Learn & Teach
- As associates we learn new things about our products and we teach our customers not only “what” we sell but “why” we sell it
- Our favorite thing to say is, “Did you know that..?
- We commit to learning new things every day to make ourselves and our customers better at making healthy choices for themselves and their families
Laugh & Live Healthy
- Our commitment to our customers is to make every visit to Mrs. Green’s an awesome one, every time
- We strive to make our customers smile (or even laugh) and truly be glad they came
- Have fun
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