Senior Manager, Assortment Activation - Jewelry & Accessories and Baby Departments

Overview

Position Summary
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What you'll do
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• Strategic Execution Leadership:
  Owns the end-to-end planning, governance, and oversight of high-impact modular and relay initiatives. Sets timelines, stage gates, risk mitigation plans, and success measures to ensure execution quality and alignment with enterprise goals. Escalates decisively to protect delivery and maintain execution integrity across formats.
• Portfolio & Resource Management:
  Balances capacity and capability across modular execution teams to meet dynamic business needs. Sequences work to align with business rhythms, seasonal effects, and store readiness. Absorbs operational complexity to enable senior leaders to focus on strategic priorities.
• Operational Excellence & Standards:
  Serves as a subject-matter expert on modular execution standards and best practices. Institutions may be established for "single-best-way" methods and quality checks across store formats. Leads post-implementation reviews to codify learnings and scale improvements.
• Cross-Functional Liaison & Analyst Enablement:
  Acts as a strategic connector between Insights, Space, Merchant teams, and leadership. Aligns decisions to execution realities and clarifies roles, data needs, and decision rights. Owns coordination tasks to protect analytical capacity and allow analysts to focus on insights.
• Talent Development & Leadership:
  Mentors managers and high-potential associates to build a bench of future leaders. Fosters a culture of continuous learning and execution excellence. Demonstrates leadership expectations through decision-making, team development, and cross-functional outcomes.

• Modular execution and relay planning (P3–P4 proficiency)
• Strategic planning and resource management
• Cross-functional influence and change leadership
• KPI design, data analysis, and process optimization
• Drives the execution of multiple business plans and projects by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and communicating business plans and priorities; removing barriers and obstacles that impact performance; providing resources; identifying performance standards; measuring progress and adjusting performance; accordingly, developing contingency plans; and demonstrating adaptability and supporting continuous learning.

Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application; ensuring compliance with them; and utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy.

Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives; consulting with business partners, managers, co-workers, or other key stakeholders; soliciting, evaluating, and applying suggestions for improving efficiency and cost effectiveness; and participating in and supporting community outreach events.

Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by selecting and training; mentoring; assigning duties; building a team-based work environment; establishing performance expectations and conducting regular performance evaluations; providing recognition and rewards; coaching for success and improvement; and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace.

Respect the Individual:
Demonstrates and encourages respect for all; builds a high-performing team; seeks, and embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas and experiences; creates a workplace where all associates feel seen, supported and connected through culture of belonging so associates thrive and perform; drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all; identifies, attracts, and retains the best team members.

Respect the Individual:
Creates a discipline and focus around developing talent, through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; promotes an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work; empowers associates and partners to act in the best interest of the customer/member and company; and regularly recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.

Respect the Individual:
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