Director Of Floral And Merchandising

A Director of Floral and Merchandising position is available courtesy of The Kroger Co. in Cincinnati, OH.

Director of Floral Position Summary:

Guide the direction for assigned categories and coordinate efforts across strategic and financial initiatives. Serve as liaison between team and senior leadership, acting as champion. Set long-term plan across categories, identifying risk mitigation strategies, resource allocation, and vendor management opportunities. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.

Director of Floral Essential Job Functions:

• Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provide feedback to direct reports
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation
• Coordinate Category Managers' (CMs) efforts across strategic and financial initiatives; manage a cohesive vision
• Sign-off and guide assortment strategy within respective areas; tie to a unified customer experience across all channels
• Ensure budgets, sales plans and pricing architecture meet departmental financial targets with accuracy; identify areas of opportunity supported by action plans and allocate resources as necessary
• Partner with CMs and guide the process of annual budgeting and long-range planning across respective areas; understand total enterprise goals and the role respective areas will play; leverage scale across CMs where possible
• Work on company initiatives / special programs that benefit merchandising long-term, including testing
• Remove barriers, and reinforce priorities with project stakeholders, project owners, milestone owners and executive leadership
• Push vendors to have a long-term view towards innovation and trends
• Drive decisions and influence the creation of strategic visioning, planning, execution and management for Fresh departments and support areas to improve customer experience/conversion; ensure strategies are rooted in the overall Fresh strategic framework
• Serve as CMs representation and connection point to VP, senior leadership, and rest of company (outside of directly-engaged support functions), providing visibility into the day-to-day
• Assist Category Managers in senior-level vendor relations across National and Our Brands
• Travel independently to visit divisions, vendors, etc.
• Sign off on innovative go-to-market merchandising strategies across all customer delivery channels and modalities engaging the supplier community and other relevant stakeholders

Director of Floral Minimum Position Qualifications:

• Ability to influence others; skill and diplomacy in dealing with people at all levels within the organization
• Strong leadership skills
• Knowledge of space management software tools and capabilities
• Strong knowledge of the retail environment, as well as consumer and competitive market dynamics
• Excellent oral/written communication skills
• 5+ years floral and/or relevant fresh merchandising experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Any experience managing and leading groups of administrative managers

Desired Previous Experience/Education

• Any division district coordinator, Merchandising representative, KOMPASS coordinator or financial experience
• Any procurement experience
• Any category management (assortment, pricing and sales planning) experience
• Bachelor's Degree in business

Leadership Behaviors: Achieves Results through Teamwork, Coaches and Develops Others, Communicates Effectively and Candidly, Executes with Excellence, Leads Change and Innovation, Leads through Positive Influence, Provides Clear and Strategic Direction, Puts the Customer First. For more information on the Kroger Leadership Behavior model, click here.

Education Level: Bachelor's Desired

Required Travel: Up to 25%

Required Certifications/Licenses: None

Regions: General Office- Cincinnati, Ohio