About the Team
Our Merchandise Planning and Allocation (MP&A) teams are the driving forces behind making the organization&rsquos product visions available to our consumers through calculated and strategic measures. Your involvement in sales and margin forecasts, promotional performance analysis, inventory management, and vendor relationships will play a critical role in obtaining goals while maintaining PetSmart&rsquos reputation in the market as a trusted partner to pet parents.
About the Location
Collaborative & Flexible Work Environment: We believe in fostering growth, teamwork and creativity in a dynamic workplace. This role is based at PetSmart&rsquos Phoenix Home Office, where associates currently enjoy the benefits of in-person collaboration while having the flexibility to work remotely one day per week (a &ldquoflex workday&rdquo with leader approval), and an expected four days in the office. At PetSmart, you&rsquoll be part of an engaging and supportive environment designed to help you and our teams thrive.
About the Job
The Sr Director Merchandise Planning and Allocation partners with the Director of Merchandise Buying to develop and lead overall division strategic vision, resources and execution plans that align with the corporate strategy. This position leads all aspects of the strategic development and execution of merchandise planning, space optimization, assortment planning with localization, optimizing the product life cycle to maximize margins, and allocation planning and execution in order to achieve sales, margin, turn and other KPI&rsquos.
Key Responsibilities:
&bull Achieves Sales, Margin, and Inventory Turnover and other KPIs as designated to plan
&bull Lead development of team including recruiting and coaching to build organization talent
&bull Develop overall division strategy vision, policies, resources, and execution plans to align to the corporate strategy
&bull Directs development of Merchandise plan and all business metrics within
&bull Participates in the seasonal, annual, and long-range strategic and financial planning across a wide array of vendor, customer and merchandising segments.
&bull Leads, executes and measure performance against the business planning and product creation calendars to drive timely and informed decision making
&bull Supports the VP to present within various strategic meetings for the division (i.e. Direction Setting, Marketing Execution meetings, Line Reviews, Open-To-Buy, Vendor, QBR, and other meetings)
&bull Owns the end-to-end management of inventory, including service and in-stock levels and dollar levels owns the setting of and achieving targets for inventory productivity to support the sales and gross margin plans, maintain high levels of promotional product availability during promotional periods while minimizing ad residue, and optimizing end-caps, drive aisle, and in-line story telling and integration consistent with consumer shopping patterns.
&bull Directs targets and creation of vendor demand plans. Effective and timely communication to vendors.
&bull In partnership with the pricing organization, supports delivering on the pricing strategy, optimizing margins across the life cycle, managing category elasticity, zone pricing, promotional price optimization, markdown optimization, and good/better/best pricing and assortment optimization and strategies while maintaining a deep understanding of competitor assortments and pricing.
&bull Collaborate with retail operations regarding sales driving opportunities
&bull Actively create and lead special projects that drive growth opportunities
&bull Execute division and category marketing plans in partnership with the Marketing Dept
&bull Build and submit division and category promotional plans including: Ads, Planner Locations, Promotional Offers, and Layouts,
&bull Develops the holistic understanding of category, consumer, and competitive dynamics translates them into division portfolio plans that optimize revenue, margin, pricing and product cost
&bull Integrate processes and systems to optimize accuracy, efficiency, inventory productivity, space utilization, and margin optimization.
Skills:
&bull Ability to develop and retain superior organization talent through coaching and teaching.
&bull Ability to build business strategies and lead team all stages of planning and executing those strategies.
&bull Ability to collaborate cross-functionally to drive business strategies and initiatives.
&bull Ability to make operational decisions by incorporating analytics to improve sales and margin.
&bull Possess excellent Problem Solving Skills (Critical and evaluative thinking).
&bull Must be a self-starter with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
Education:
&bull Must have a Bachelor&rsquos degree in business from a 4 year college or university and 10+ years experience in merchandising planning and/or allocation or equivalent combination of education and experience.
&bull Intermediate to advanced knowledge of spreadsheets, word processing, decision support software, Outlook as well as SAP, JDA Intactix and DPR are helpful.
About the Culture
At PetSmart, we work hard to create a culture where every associate feels like they truly belong and we celebrate the unique stories, backgrounds, and experiences our associates share. These experiences not only bring new perspectives in shaping our Belonging culture but they&rsquore core to PetSmart&rsquos success.
Not sure if you meet 100% of the position requirements and whether you should apply? We&rsquod still like to hear from you and encourage you to apply with us! You just may be the ideal candidate for this role, and if not this one, perhaps another position.
Our home office offers outstanding amenities in a fun and rewarding workplace including:
PetSmart provides an equal opportunity for all associates and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other legally protected characteristics.
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