Merchandising Team Manager

Belk; Alabaster (AL); Vor Ort; USD 50.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Belk is seeking a Merchandising Team Manager to lead a group of associates in store operations, merchandising, and facilities, driving a positive customer experience and sales performance.

You will collaborate across operations, visual merchandising, and selling teams to elevate store presentation, manage stock, and ensure accurate pricing and signing. The role emphasizes coaching, planning, and talent development to sustain excellence.

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years of experience in Visual Merchandising or Retail Management.
• Flexibility to work nights, weekends and holidays.
• Ability to move around store areas and lift at least 50 lbs.
• Comfortable with technology and Windows-based systems.

Aufgaben

• Demonstrate ownership and accountability to achieve store objectives and key metrics.
• Lead back-of-house operations: receiving, inbound/outbound, stock replenishment, and store fulfillment.
• Direct front-of-house operations: product placement, floor sets, pricing, promotions, audits, and customer service.
• Collaborate with selling and visual teams to maintain merchandising presentations and planograms.
• Participate in weekly leadership planning meetings and use systems/tools to forecast receipts and labor hours.
• Build team knowledge and mentor associates to ensure execution excellence.
• Set clear priorities, review performance, and coach for development.
• Drive retention and engagement through recognition and development opportunities.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and bench-building for store talent.
• Manage shortage control and inventory accuracy in alignment with asset protection standards.

Kenntnisse

Analytics and judgement

Mentorship

Effective communication

Self-directed

Technology proficiency

Retail management

Flexible scheduling

Customer service excellence

Team leadership

Staff training

Tools

Windows OS

Jobbeschreibung

The Merchandising Team Manager leads a team of associates in the strategic execution of store operations, merchandising, and facilities activities to deliver a positive customer experience and drive store sales, key metrics, and profitability. This role leads cross-functional collaboration across operations, visual merchandising, and selling teams to ensure store presentations are elevated and maintained, with products placed, priced, and signed accurately. The Merchandising Team Manager oversees the execution of inbound and outbound deliveries, supply replenishment, inventory management, and store fulfillment support. This is an exempt position, with monthly bonus eligibility.

What You Will Do

• Demonstrate a high level of ownership, accountability, and initiative in achieving store objectives and driving the accomplishment of key metrics.
• Lead team in execution of back-of-house operations, including receiving and processing inbound deliveries, readying product for sales floor, processing damages, preparing and completing outbound shipments, and supporting store fulfillment. Coordinate organization and maintenance of equipment, devices, communication boards, supplies, signage, fixtures, and other tools to promote efficiency and maximize productivity.
• Direct and support team with front-of-house operations, including product placement, floor sets, stock and supply replenishment, facilities maintenance, pricing activities, promotional sets, audits, and customer service to enhance customer experience.
• Collaborate with selling and visual teams to support overall management and maintenance of merchandise presentations and customer shopping environment, ensuring alignment with visual merchandising directives, planograms, cleanliness, and company standards.
• Participate in weekly leadership workload planning meetings to ensure all merchandising and operations tasks are prepped, planned, and scheduled, while ensuring execution plan aligns with company priorities, directives, and processes. Utilize company systems, planning tools, and reporting to determine forecasted receipts and required labor hours.
• Build comprehensive team knowledge of merchandising, operations, and omni processes and procedures, ensuring associates are trained to execute consistently, efficiently, and effectively. Model behaviors that foster a culture of excellence, teamwork, and a strong drive for results.
• Set and communicate clear team priorities and expectations. Enhance individual and store results through regularly reviewing associate performance, conducting meaningful coaching conversations, and embracing opportunities to continuously teach and develop.
• Drive team retention and engagement by recognizing individual contributions, celebrating store achievements, and promoting upcoming activities. Foster a positive store culture by ensuring team members understand their role in achieving store goals and feel valued and a sense of belonging.
• Support filling open positions timely through recruitment, interviewing, and facilitating team career development conversations to ensure ready-now bench of store talent. Oversee associate onboarding experience, ensuring structured onboarding completion.
• Effectively manage shortage control and inventory accuracy, ensuring team compliance with asset protection, product protection standards, safety guidelines, and security protocols.

Skills And Abilities

• Ability to successfully apply analytics, experience, and judgement to make timely and effective business, people, and profitability decisions.
• Skills and experience to perform in the role and a commitment to continuously learn.
• Ability to develop others through mentorship, effective communication, and side-by-side coaching.
• Self-directed and able to work with minimal supervision in a deadline-driven environment.
• Communicate with excellence.
• Comfortable with technology, including smartphones, tablet computers and Windows-based operating systems.
• 3+ years of experience in Visual Merchandising or Retail Management.
• Available to work a flexible schedule based on business needs, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must regularly move around all store areas and be accessible to customers.
• Must bend, reach, stretch for product as well as lift, carry, and move at least 50 lbs.
• Ability to push/pull receiving equipment weighing up to 500 lbs.

The job posting highlights the most relevant / essential responsibilities and requirements of the role. It is not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities, and qualifications for this job.

$50,000.00 - $100,000.00