Sr. Manager, Assortment Strategy

Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Home Depot is seeking a Sr. Manager, Assortment Strategy to lead category strategy and assortment performance for assigned businesses within ASE.

This role uses customer insights, competitive intelligence and business performance data to identify assortment gaps and prioritize profitable growth on homedepot.com. The leader collaborates with Merchants to conduct online category reviews and translate recommendations into actionable plans with milestones and success measures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• 10 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience in assortment strategy or merchandising.
• Ability to analyze complex data from multiple sources.
• Strong leadership and people-management skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead category strategy and assortment performance for assigned businesses.
• Collaborate with Merchants to translate insights into plans with milestones.
• Manage 4-6 professionals, set priorities and track results.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve assortment productivity.
• Present recommendations to leadership with measurable impact.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

Planning & reporting

Customer focus

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Epiphany

Omniture

Relational databases

Job description

Position Purpose:

The Sr. Manager, Assortment Strategy leads category strategy and assortment performance for assigned businesses within Assortment Strategy & Enablement (ASE).

This role uses customer insights, competitive intelligence and business performance data to identify assortment gaps and prioritize profitable growth on homedepot.com. In partnership with Merchants, the Sr. Manager leads online category reviews and translates recommendations into plans with clear owners, milestones and success measures. The role owns tail assortment decisions from opportunity identification through execution, including expansion, rationalization, pricing guardrails and major-event promotional strategy. Merchants retain ownership of head supplier and private-brand actions.

The Sr. Manager partners with Supplier Relationship Management, Supplier Operations, Analytics and Online Merchandising to validate product fit, support onboarding and improve assortment productivity. This leader manages and develops 4-6 professionals, sets priorities and holds the team accountable for results. The role tracks sales and margin impact, communicates recommendations and progress to leadership, and improves repeatable processes that help the business scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• 40% Drive consistent category-level strategy planning with Merchants: coordination of necessary data from both store and online systems, development of project templates and concise reporting results for Online and Store Merchants
• 20% Responsible for the development of standard reporting tools, supervising data collection and reporting distribution
• 20% Partner with functional areas such as Supply Chain, Core Merchandising, Vendor Compliance and Inventory Management to ensure effective solutions that can be leveraged across all areas
• 10% Manage work activities and provide development of direct reports
• 10% Serve as primary liaison with Merchandising Execution team to ensure inclusion of online strategies in product line reviews and synergies between online and core merchandising assortments.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Position reports to DMM, homedepot.com
• Accountable for direct supervision of the work activities of others. In addition to personnel issues -- including selection, termination, performance appraisal and professional development of subordinates.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Online and/or Retail Store Experience. Both preferred.
• Ability to analyze, evaluate and interpret complex data from varying sources.
• Experience with relational databases. Epiphany and/ or Omniture preferred.
• Online and/or Retail Store Experience. Both preferred.
• Ability to analyze, evaluate and interpret complex data from varying sources.
• Experience with relational databases. Epiphany and/ or Omniture preferred.

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 10

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• High level of product knowledge/expertise.
• Strong planning, organization and presentation skills, maintains sense of urgency and able to manage multiple projects and schedule demands. Delegates effectively
• Customer centric - able to see business from customer perspective
• Champions creative and innovative thinking
• Strategic thinking; process focus

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.