Area Merchandising Manager - WM

Summary:

Do you like working outside? Do you enjoy plants? Would you like to work with the industry leader in Garden Center service and innovation? Then read the description below.

Altman Plants is the world’s #1 supplier of cactus and succulents, and we grow an amazing assortment of annuals, perennials, and shrubs. Manage our merchandising team as they merchandise our plants in big box retail stores following our established standards. Managing includes scheduling, performance reviews and corrections, and more. Manage the team as they unload our fresh plants onto tables or bench displays in our customers’ garden centers.

Preparing displays consists of culling non-sellable plants and consolidating existing products to make room for fresh plants. We make garden centers beautiful every day!

• Provide leadership and oversee the performance of merchandising teams in assigned area
• Recruit, hire, train, motivate, discipline, and otherwise support and hold accountable our merchandising teams
• Implement and improve training guidelines and methods
• Incorporate store walks and reviews as regular documented processes
• Plan and host conference calls and meetings on a regular basis to ensure communication around our business needs are thoroughly understood by the team
• Ensure consistent execution and communication of programs and procedures
• Contribute to new strategies in merchandising
• Accomplish sales and inventory management goals in coordination with account managers
• Be aware of order flow and team activity while using data to help drive decision making
• Communicate regularly with sales account management and operations teams
• Develop productive relationships with key customers’ operational management teams and merchandising management teams
• Promote our efforts throughout the customer chain
• Relate professionally with vendor partners
• Support inventory allocation on a regular basis in coordination with account managers, replenishment teams, and availability teams
• Budgeting duties including creating a yearly budget in collaboration with the regional management team, managing merchandiser hours and other resource allocation decisions
• Identify and implement ways to increase effectiveness and efficiency
• Provide and help collect qualified feedback on production planning from the merchandising team
• Ensure safe working practices are always prioritized and all safety guidelines are adhered to
• Create team service schedules to meet our customers’ needs and ensure team members are punctual in following the schedule and applicable guidelines
• Provide corrective action and progressive discipline when company standards are not met – hold teams accountable for meeting company standards and expectations
• Communicate regularly and work closely with the Regional Manager to define goals and objectives, keeping them updated regularly on all aspects of our business
• Build team cohesion and positively influence individual behavior
• Identify potential and develop talent at each level of the merchandising team to promote employee growth and effectiveness
• Follow all company SOPs
• Be a leader within the organization
• Complete administrative tasks timely and correctly
• Use cell phone regularly for clock-in & clock-out, store check-in & check-out, taking and sharing photos, completing tasks assigned through mobile apps, texting, calling, emailing, and other job-related tasks functions

• Work closely with store associates and store management to ensure the garden centers in your assigned stores are maintained according to company standards – fresh, clean, and ready for business every day
• Work closely with our Altman Plants merchandisers and Altman Plants supervisors to ensure garden centers are beautiful and ready for business every day in assigned stores
• Provide feedback and inventory updates to our internal teams
• Ensure all plants are merchandised and empty delivery racks are removed from the sales floor/retail area
• Ensure plants and displays have a well maintained, sales-ready appearance daily
• Ensure all product is rotated, merchandised, and signed with prices and available signage as applicable
• Cull and properly dispose of…