Grocery Retail Job Description
Grocery Retail Duties & Responsibilities
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Grocery Retail Qualifications
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Education for Grocery Retail
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Employers hiring for the grocery retail job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and High School Degree in Education, General Education, Business, Marketing, Technical, Associates, Performance, Science, Graduate, Agriculture
Skills for Grocery Retail
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Grocery Retail Examples
Grocery Retail Job Description
- Develop broker & account specific KPI to track and evaluate team (broker) performance against product assortment, placement, shelving and merchandising (merchandising includes increases in display and promotional frequency/depth vs prior year)
- Leverage external & internal insights to continually bring new growth ideas to Customer and Company
- Manage Regional Grocery Team P&L shape and deliver financial targets
- Evaluate (as needed) broker commission rates to ensure we maximize to achieve stated objectives
- Planning talent needs, recruiting, hiring talent for the Customer team
- Assessing potential and co-creating development plans with direct reports, providing coaching, championing individuals’ development and career progression
- Developing and retaining talent, ensuring succession plans are in place for critical roles
- Championing talent development and succession as part of the Sales Leadership Team (SLT)
- Setting expectations and overseeing the achievement of individual objectives, managing performance and providing timely and ongoing feedback
- Coaching and directing priorities to achieve and exceed Company, Customer and individual objectives
- Knowledge of financial business concepts
- Understanding of data and business analysis rules
- Thorough understanding of grocery products, trends, pricing, market share and cannibalization
- Able to work in a very fast paced, high growth environment
- Extensive experience and capability in collaborating across key internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to build a balanced customer base
Grocery Retail Job Description
- Work with store team on merchandising by establishing displays of company or featured products
- Provide feedback to category managers, inventory analyst and store team on opportunities for product transfer and/or markdowns
- Provide feedback to Merchandising and Product team regarding space management, new item launches, planogram resets regarding needed changes and/or adjustments
- Make regular observations on competitors' products, pricing and merchandising
- Maintain quality results by following and enforcing safe food handling practices, product rotation, and temperature standards
- Train and educate employees on new products and best practices for product display and rotation, backroom organization and overstock procedures
- Support the stores as needed with special promotions by setting-up end cap displays
- Support store resets, remodels and new store product merchandising set up by ensuring final set configuration optimizes store merchandising space along with directing activity of project to ensure sequence of events is executed in meeting project objectives
- Give feedback to the Director, Field Merchandising on store conditions, facility conditions, scheduling, shrink risk, product overstock, product outs, and freshness
- Maintain customer relationships by visiting with store managers and employees
- Rising Junior majoring in Business, Accounting, Finance or Marketing or any other analytical discipline
- Understands the different needs of customers
- Customer experience - utilizing analytics and reporting to develop action plans
- Operational store standards, including merchandising, product quality, sanitation and inventory management
- Financial success, including sales, margin, labor, general expenses, inventory and profit and loss
- Continuous improvement, through regular store visits and business reviews for the Store Manager
Grocery Retail Job Description
- Lead Harry’s inc. business portfolio development across Grocery, to include delivering budgeted sales revenue, gross profit, category share development, omnichannel development, and supply chain excellence
- Manage and own the Grocery P&L, including trade investment and overall OpEx considerations
- Own the establishment and execution of our overall vision and strategy to win with our key retail partners, to include collaborating to secure input, investment and support from internal cross-functional partners
- Build and foster relationships with our retailer’s senior-level leadership, including merchandising, marketing, supply chain and store operations
- Ensure we have robust category-level Joints Business Plans with corresponding scorecards that represent mutually defined annual goals
- Lead the hiring, training and personal development of team talent for Harry’s Inc – creating a highly collaborative and effective culture that reflects Harry’s Vision, Mission and Values
- Manage a high functioning team and agency partners to serve the needs of our retail partners and Harry’s at an optimal and mutually defined ROI
- Define and lead the necessary business questions and support from data analytics and shopper/consumer insights, to position Harry’s as the thought leader in shave and soft product categories in which we compete
- You'll work most closely with key retail leadership and contacts, Sales Strategy and Planning and Brand for go-to-market planning, distribution and Supply for operational and fulfillment needs, R&D for product and display design needs, Retail Marketing for demand creation best practice
- You'll report to the Head of Retail at Harry’s
- Business growth, providing direction to effectively open new stores and execute resets and relocations
- Risk management, partnering with Store Management, Asset Protection, Facilities, and Food Safety, in the areas of loss, safety, and compliance
- Team performance, with responsibility for succession planning, selection, development, performance, and retention of store leadership
- 5 years of retail management experience, including 2 years of multi-unit
- Flexibility for frequent travel, and night/weekend work
- Demonstrated decision-making skills involving judgment and complex analysis and problem solving
Grocery Retail Job Description
- Maintains cash controls and payroll records, and oversees the hiring of frontline team members
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or relevant field, advanced degree or MBA is preferred
- 2 years of major account sales management experience required
- Proven retail analytic application & management capabilities
- Category Management and Customer/Trade Marketing experience
- Access to your own transportation, comfortable driving to several locations – KMs will be paid
- Language skills in Spanish highly preferred for certain store locations
- Understanding of Syndicated data (A.C
- Basic understanding of financial/business/marketing requirements
- Develops maintains and monitors relationships with regional accounts (people systems philosophies etc)
- Rising Junior, rising Senior or Graduate Student, majoring in Business, Accounting, Finance or Marketing or any other analytical discipline
- 7-10 years of consumer packaged goods retail sales experience is required