What You’ll Do In This Role
Description
The role owns the strategic direction and oversees the tactical execution of category floor planning strategies that drive sales, margin, and turn for Dick's Sporting Goods. Responsibilities include the development of floor plan strategies, guidance for space optimization based on category and zone performance, driving execution of strategies through the management of floor plans, developing cross-team processes and integration, and providing thought leadership for unique athlete experiences throughout the company.
Strategy, Execution, and Testing
Develops and maintains overarching floor planning strategies to achieve merchant goals for sales, margin and turn of assigned categories. Works within team and with stakeholders to develop/refine strategies by season to maximize results. Drives testing of new strategies to continuously evolve the in-store athlete experience. Defines team vision and direction and guides team to meet stated objectives. Understand the impact of space moves on fixturing and graphics through partnership with Retail Integration and In Store design teams. Support the Director/ VP with leadership and organization of ad hoc projects. Proficient in quickly delivering accurate analysis, that is both actionable and presentable to senior levels of management.
Developing Talent and Teammate Engagement
Build effective teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals. Manage execution responsibilities and workload of direct reports to achieve department deliverables on time and with quality. Provide direct reports with timely and regular feedback to support teammate development/ growth in role. Develop talent on your team to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals. Partner with department leadership to establish strategic staffing and succession plans; successfully deliver on proposed staffing objectives. Drive the talent selection process in alignment with the company’s talent philosophy for open direct reporting positions; Ensure all direct reports are appropriately trained and on-boarded. Drive engagement by creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives; focus on voice of teammate data (e.g., Engagement & Pulse results), partnering with organization leadership to drive necessary changes.
Cross Functional Partnerships
Develop and maintain effective working relationships with members of cross-functional teams. Gain alignment with Visual Merchandising, Merchants, and Planning organizations to contribute to strategy and develop of store specific and prototypical floorplans with consideration for brand image, optimized space, merchandise placement and an elevated athlete experience. Collaborate with category space planning to provide data-led recommendations on space reallocation.
Capability Development
Owns strategic, senior level relationships with key external partners, as well as cross functional relationships for existing internal enterprise software to drive incremental use cases. Drives initiatives with partners from inception through to execution and serves as a subject matter expert for the usage and integration of data into company reporting. Works cross-functionally with Merchants, PAR, Visual Merchandising, Field Leadership, Store Planning, IT, and Strategy teams to ensure cohesive data and athlete-led experiences. Directly oversees the floor planning capability for categories of responsibility in addition to the fixture attributes used in the merchandising systems.
Cross-Chain Strategy and Oversight
Ensures best practices are uniformly applied to Dicks Sporting Goods. Works with Merchants, PAR, Operations, Store Planning, Visual Merchandising, and Field partners to develop and increase consistent chainwide merchandising strategies as needed.
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What we’re looking for
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field. Examples include but not limited to Business Management, Merchandising or Operations, Finance, Management Information Systems, Architecture, Visual Merchandising.
- 7 – 10 years total with 3 – 5 years of related experience
- Experience with Microsoft Suite
- Category Space Management software experience required
- VBA skills preferred
- AutoCad/Revit Experience preferred
- Excellent written & Verbal Communication Skills
- Project management knowledge
- Strong interpersonal & client consultation skills
- In-depth analytical skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Supervisory & leadership capabilities
- Problem solving & troubleshooting capabilities
- Ability to train and develop a staff of over 10 teammates
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills Ability to develop unique athlete experiences
Professional License/Training:
Preferred: Certified in an industry recognized Space and Category Management solution such as JDA/Blue Yonder Category Management Suite (Certified in Space Planning, Floor Planning, Planogram Generator, or Category Knowledge Base)
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PABLO: I’ll go into the storage racks that we have, and using different equipment, such as a reach truck or an order picker, I will pick them to be sent to each individual store.
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TYSON: There’s a lot of hard work that goes into the job– the heavy boxes, light boxes.
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KYLEN: We get all these boxes coming in from multiple areas. We just take those boxes and stack them up to the best of our ability and get them on out.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER 1: The stores, the athletes can go in and buy the product that they need. But in order for them to do that, the DC has to make sure they get that product out to the stores. So that’s why it is very important for us to put the right product in the boxes.
SPEAKER 2: To be the best processor, you have to focus so that the right product and item shipped goes to the right store and customers.
SPEAKER 1: You start to pull boxes off the lane. And you scan them. And start putting the amount that needs to go to that certain store. And once you have a full box, you push it off. And it goes off to shipping.
SPEAKER 2: This process keeps repeating all day.
SPEAKER 1: Your day will go by fast when you’re busy.
SPEAKER 2: All the employees are very friendly and we work as a team so that we can provide a best service to the customers and to the stores.
SPEAKER 1: I work 10 hours during the day, Monday through Thursday. So I enjoy my three day weekends that I get. It’s really nice. Better than too.
SPEAKER 2: I am an accounting student. So I like a weekend shift days. Because in a week, I get that time to finish my assignment, take my classes.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] JOE: Our goal here is to make sure the customers are happy. So we have to make sure the product that we send out is in the best shape that we can get it through the building.
DAVID: My role here at DICK’S is basically, to pull the heavy stuff off like treadmills, ellipticals, weight sets, stuff like that.
PABLO: I’ll go into the storage racks that we have and using different equipment such as a reach truck or an order picker, I will pick them to be sent to each individual store.
DAVID: It’s actually pretty fun because you’re never really dealing with the same product every day.
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PABLO: Here at the DC we actually provide training. You would learn how to drive the equipment, such as anything ranging from a reach truck, order picker, clamp truck or any pallet rider of any size.
JOE: I work four days a week, Monday through Thursday, 10 hours a day. Gives me my 40 hours. Gives me Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off, which gives me more time with my family on a three day weekend versus a two day weekend.
PABLO: I work the weekend shift, which allows me to be a full time student Monday through Thursday and not lose out on the benefits that a full time job provides.
DAVID: Once you get into the flow of your job you are going to have a blast here.
PABLO: I definitely think you should come in with an open mind and be ready to work.
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