Sr. Manager Pro Operations

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a strategic Growth Leader to identify opportunities, analyze markets, and drive initiatives across the organization. You will lead cross-functional teams, manage pilots, and report to senior management to support growth objectives.

Collaborating with store planning, visual merchandising, and merchant teams is essential, as is steering acquisitions and mentoring staff. A strong analytics background is expected for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent is required.
• Master's degree is preferred for advanced roles.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills are expected.

Responsibilities

• Identify growth opportunities through industry and competitive analysis.
• Manage day-to-day issues when implementing new initiatives and pilots.
• Develop recommendations by collaborating with diverse stakeholders.
• Evaluate financial and operational results of initiatives against projections.
• Prepare presentations for senior leadership and growth steering committees.
• Contribute to acquisition discussions and post-acquisition follow-up.
• Select, develop, and motivate assigned staff.

Skills

Supervisory Skills

Executive communication

Math & logic

DB familiarity

Conflict resolution

Retail awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Position Purpose:

Lead and direct strategic growth initiatives within The Home Depot to enable the company to continue meeting/exceeding our growth objectives/strategy. Identify, research and analyze potential opportunities for growth, develop strategies to address and capture specific opportunities, test and refine recommendations, evaluate results, make recommendations relative to implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities: Conduct industry and competitive analysis, customer research, acquisition opportunities and identify the most attractive growth opportunities
• Manage projects: handle day-to-day issues associated with implementing a new initiative; work with store planning, visual merchandising, store and divisional associates. May lead full pilot implementations of selected initiatives.
• Develop Recommendations: Prioritize issues and brainstorm/develop solutions and recommendations by working with a diverse group of people (store personnel, merchants, other HD companies, non-HD companies, vendors, etc.)
• Evaluate Results: Analyze the financial results of initiatives versus projections through financial analysis, control stores, & other benchmarks. Evaluate the operational issues of initiatives by walking stores, talking to associates, talking to customers
• and interviewing merchants.
• Communicate with Senior Management: Prepare presentations for growth steering committee, president's meeting and other meetings in order to communicate and solicit feedback and input at various stages of individual initiatives
• Acquisition leadership: Ad hoc involvement in selected strategic acquisitions, including identification of candidates, industry evaluation, negotiations, and post-acquisition follow-up and tracking.
• Select, develop, and motivate assigned staff.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Typically reports to Director
• Direct and indirect reports typically include 3 professionals and 1 support associate.
• Typically negotiates in a competitive or adversarial environment.
• Typically faces complex issues that differ from those typically faced within the industry or profession.
• Typically considers new courses of action within broad policies and medium-term goals when solving problems.
• Typically determines what should be done in a functional area or business unit within the broad policies and principles or very general goals.

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:

• Usually in a comfortable environment but with regular exposure to factors causing moderate physical discomfort from such things as dust, fumes or odors.
• Under regular pressure to meet deadlines, quotas and/or must frequently deal with difficult issues related to people or situations.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• A master's degree is preferred.
• Eight plus years of experience is 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:

• 6

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Supervisory Skills
• Ability to communicate with Executive group
• Strong Basic Math and Logic Skills
• Computer Literate/Comfortable with Database Structure
• Conflict Resolution
• Basic understanding of retail environment