Retail Merchandising Team Lead - West

Retail Merchandising Team Lead

As a Retail Merchandising Team Lead, you will be responsible for the completion of Ace Hardware new store buildouts / setup and existing store renovations. You will be responsible for leading a team of merchandisers and fixture installers to safely complete the defined scoped project. This position will be responsible to ensure best practices, quality assurances, cost effectiveness, safety requirements and that company initiatives are followed throughout these projects.

The Retail Merchandising Team Lead will be expected to successfully work with Independent store owners to meet the project scope requirements. This position will contribute to the department's capacity and ability to create more and better Ace Hardware stores.

What You'll Do

• Provide leadership and hands on merchandising / set up for store projects from start to finish
• Direct teams of 6+ merchandisers to ensure they are working efficiently and safely throughout the project
• Lead the building and assembling of store shelving and fixtures
• Lead the merchandising of the entire Ace store according to the floor plan
• Lead the installation of signage and dcor as required by the store plan
• Communicate with the Independent store owner / Ace retailer on a daily basis providing project status updates
• Document and escalate project issues in a timely manner to stakeholders raising awareness and driving resolution
• Communicate regularly with the extended Project Team providing project status updates
• Conduct daily standup meetings with current store team and / or merchandising team
• Navigate through ambiguity as issues arise during a project with the ability to reassign resources when required
• Conduct a final walk with the Ace Project Manager and retailer to go through each section and provide necessary callouts
• Close out the project with the retailer by obtaining their signature on the required documentation
• Utilize existing best practices, tools and processes and define in Ace Hardware's retail projects SOP's
• Provide productive feedback from your projects to help Ace improve our tools, programs, and processes.

Who You Are

Required Skills

Compensation Details :

$75000 - $90000 Per Year

Why Should You Join Our Team?

We live our values - W.E.L.I.G.H.T (Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork). Gratitude. Humility. Love. You don't often see values like these in most corporate statements, but Ace is different. These things are important to us. They represent our commitment to the company, our employees, to Ace retailers and to the Ace brand.

In addition to providing our employees a great culture, Ace also offers competitive benefits