Supervisory Commissary Management Specialist (Category Mgr)

Performs commercial retail like category management functions in an extremely fast-paced environment that drives the Agencys product assortments. Consistently executes category management strategies across a portfolio of categories and brands. Effectively balances patron savings with revenue growth. Achieves sales goals and margin targets while providing patron savings. Anticipates and meets the needs of both internal and external customers. Delivers high quality products and services and is committed to continuous improvement.

• SAVINGS: Constantly seeks to provide grocery items at significant savings while enhancing quality of life and readiness to our military and their dependents. Must be keenly aware of competitive trends and changes in the retail grocery sector to provide grocery items at significant savings. Ensures the commissary items meet or exceed the overall savings objective compared against local market baskets.
• REVENUE: Continuously seeks opportunities to capitalize on demand creation and increase customer base to drive incremental revenue. Seeks outs cutting edge product innovation and incentives to grow expand and increase DeCAs revenue share.
• MARGIN: Consistently delivers the target margin by executing competitive pricing strategies and increasing demand. Achieves cutting edge strategies for increasing gross margin.
• COST OF GOODS: Research market prices leverage data analysis/sources and use strategic negotiation skills to achieve the best cost of goods to ensure the most cost effective posture to meet the savings revenue and margin objectives.
• Directly responsible for establishing a business partnership with Pricing and Promotions Chief to quantify and execute retail pricing strategies in all stores. Responsibility includes executing advanced analytical techniques tools and scorecards to drive business results.
• Requires mastery of the retail grocery industry the retail grocery macro trends that impact category performance how the industry identifies and manages category assortments.
• Performs competitive analyses and evaluates retail and military demographic profiles and consumer purchasing behavior in individual categories and groups of categories in order to execute successful category strategies.
• Conducts meetings with suppliers agents/brokers and distributors to identify new technologies strategies and enhanced category ideas and initiatives.

• Manage the product mix including adding or removing products and plan in-store and online displays (Planograms).
• Developing and executing plans for the assigned categories to exceed savings revenue and margin goals.
• Analyzing market trends consumer behavior and competitor activities in order to identify growth opportunities and market gaps.
• Managing product assortment and promotions to maximize category performance.
• Evaluating customer feedback and implementing changes to enhance the overall customer experience and drive customer loyalty.
• Developing relationships with key suppliers and brokers focused on integrated customer focused business planning Assesses employees developmental and training needs providing or arranging necessary training; works with staff to resolve customer complaints and implement effective solutions; evaluates subordinates performance develops performance standards and participates in hiring processed by interviewing candidates and recommending appointments promotions or reassignments.

• Supervises specialists performing category management support functions providing leadership and guidance to ensure effective execution of strategies managing work assignments overseeing personnel at the GS-13 level.
• Guides and leads subordinates in devising and implementing visionary plans programs and procedures to enable the Sales Directorate to operate with optimum efficiency economy and customer service. Identify developmental and training needs of employees providing or arranging for needed development and training. Works with staff members to resolve customer complaints and implement viable resolutions. Evaluates the work performance of subordinates and develops performance standards. Interview candidates for positions in the unit; recommend appointment promotion or reassignment to such positions.
• Acts as the Agency spokesman and recognized subject matter expert in category management covering visual merchandising pricing management and sales.
• Personally executes complex category management assignments ensuring optimal product performance and placement.
• Guides the plano-grammer and reset team on changes/additions in placement and facings of new and existing products to maintain adequate space for all items in the section.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. citizen or national.
• Males born aftermust be registered with or exempt from Selective Service.
• Appointment is subject to a suitability or fitness determination as required.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain security clearance eligibility based on an appropriate background investigation.
• May be subject to a probationary/trial period.
• May be subject to one year supervisory probationary period.
• Must complete a Conflict of Interest Questionnaire.
• Must sign a Mobility Agreement upon accepting a job offer from HR.
• Direct deposit of pay is required.

Qualifications

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You must meet qualifications and requirements by the announcement closing date. Your resume must clearly show that you meet the qualifications (i.e. specialized experience requirements) for the below grade level.

• At the GS-14 grade level one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 grade level. You can meet minimum qualifications only through having the required specialized experience.

• Managing a commissary store supermarket or similar type of commercial retail food store.
• Managing a department in a retail food store.
• Planning standardizing or controlling operations in an assigned group of retail food stores.
• Developing interpreting or applying policies procedures and operating standards for use in a retail food store.
• Providing technical advice on merchandising and operational matters pertaining to grocery meats and produce supplies as well as front-end operations.

• Driving category/brand management principles and practices through the application of strong data analytics and compelling business plans and other information in support of sales growth and patron savings.
• Executing retail category strategies merchandising rules standards and guidelines that deliver on financial goals.
• Work consisting of project studies and assignments that require the analysis of interrelated issues and involves executing predictive models gathering information identifying and analyzing issues and executing recommendations to resolve substantive problems of category management operations.
• Performing assignment involving various project studies or evaluations requiring the application of many different and unrelated processes differing regulatory criteria and procedures and significant departures from established practices.
• Making decisions or executes and implements new methods and techniques to optimize retail category assortments to achieve a desired outcome.
• Executing long-range sales plans goals and objectives and provides continuous evaluation to ensure sales growth and patron savings.
• Providing solutions to category operational problems and questions.