With a career at The Home Depot you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.
Position Purpose:Lead and direct strategic growth initiatives within The Home Depot to enable the company to continue meeting/exceeding our growth objectives/strategy. Identify research and analyze potential opportunities for growth develop strategies to address and capture specific opportunities test and refine recommendations evaluate results make recommendations relative to implementation.
Key Responsibilities:- Identify opportunities: Conduct industry and competitive analysis customer research acquisition opportunities and identify the most attractive growth opportunities
- Manage projects: handle daytoday issues associated with implementing a new initiative; work with store planning visual merchandising store and divisional associates. May lead full pilot implementations of selected initiatives.
- Develop Recommendations: Prioritize issues and brainstorm/develop solutions and recommendations by working with a diverse group of people (store personnel merchants other HD companies nonHD companies vendors etc.)
- Evaluate Results: Analyze the financial results of initiatives versus projections through financial analysis control stores & other benchmarks. Evaluate the operational issues of initiatives by walking stores talking to associates talking to customers
- and interviewing merchants.
- Communicate with Senior Management: Prepare presentations for growth steering committee presidents meeting and other meetings in order to communicate and solicit feedback and input at various stages of individual initiatives
- Acquisition leadership: Ad hoc involvement in selected strategic acquisitions including identification of candidates industry evaluation negotiations and postacquisition followup and tracking.
- Select develop and motivate assigned staff.
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:- Typically reports to Director
- Direct and indirect reports typically include 3 professionals and 1 support associate.
- Typically negotiates in a competitive or adversarial environment.
- Typically faces complex issues that differ from those typically faced within the industry or profession.
- Typically considers new courses of action within broad policies and mediumterm goals when solving problems.
- Typically determines what should be done in a functional area or business unit within the broad policies and principles or very general goals.
Travel Requirements:- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
Physical Requirements:- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:- Usually in a comfortable environment but with regular exposure to factors causing moderate physical discomfort from such things as dust fumes or odors.
- Under regular pressure to meet deadlines quotas and/or must frequently deal with difficult issues related to people or situations.
Minimum Qualifications:- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:- A masters degree is preferred.
- Eight plus years of experience is preferred.
Minimum Education:- The knowledge skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelors degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Preferred Education:Minimum Years of Work Experience:Preferred Years of Work Experience:- No additional years of experience
Minimum Leadership Experience:Preferred Leadership Experience:Certifications:Competencies:- Supervisory Skills
- Ability to communicate with Executive group
- Strong Basic Math and Logic Skills
- Computer Literate/Comfortable with Database Structure
- Conflict Resolution
- Basic understanding of retail environment
Required Experience:
Senior Manager