Sales & Merchandising Manager

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Job Description:

The Sales & Merchandising Manager for Center Store Merchandising is responsible for driving sales growth, promotional execution, and merchandising consistency across assigned Center Store categories. This role manages the display plan, coordinates display distributions, and supports ad planning in partnership with all Center Store directors. The Sales & Merchandising Manager serves as a key liaison between merchandising, advertising, operations, supply chain, vendors, and store teams to ensure promotional programs are planned, communicated, distributed, and executed effectively.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage the Center Store display plan, including seasonal, weekly ad, vendor-funded, strategic, and opportunistic display activity.

• Coordinate display distributions to stores, ensuring quantities, timing, item selection, and store allocation align with merchandising plans, promotional priorities, inventory availability, and sales objectives.

• Partner with all Center Store directors to support ad planning, promotional calendars, item selection, display placement, and execution expectations.

• Review promotional plans to confirm display support is aligned with ad features, pricing strategy, vendor commitments, and category objectives.

• Collaborate with Category Managers, Space Planning, Advertising, Pricing, Procurement, Supply Chain, Retail Operations, and vendors to deliver consistent, profitable display programs.

• Monitor display execution, sales results, inventory levels, and store feedback to identify opportunities for improvement and recommend corrective action.

• Support the development and communication of merchandising direction to stores, including display guides, timing expectations, execution notes, and follow-up priorities.

• Track vendor-funded display activity, promotional commitments, and execution requirements to help ensure obligations are fulfilled.

• Assist with forecasting display demand and promotional movement in partnership with merchandising and supply chain teams.

• Analyze sales, margin, movement, inventory, and promotional performance to evaluate the effectiveness of display and ad programs.

• Identify opportunities to improve display productivity, simplify store execution, reduce excess inventory, and increase customer engagement.

• Maintain strong working relationships with internal partners and vendor representatives to support timely decision-making and issue resolution.

• Perform other duties as assigned in support of Center Store merchandising goals.

Key Competencies

• Strong merchandising and promotional planning skills.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines, and cross-functional partners.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate performance data into action.

• Clear communication and follow-up skills.

• Collaborative leadership and relationship-building ability.

• Retail execution mindset with attention to store-level practicality.

• Problem-solving, organization, and attention to detail.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, merchandising, marketing, supply chain, or a related field preferred; equivalent retail or merchandising experience may be considered.

• Experience in grocery, retail merchandising, category management, sales planning, vendor management, or store operations preferred.

• Knowledge of promotional planning, display execution, inventory flow, and retail merchandising standards.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams.

• Ability to analyze sales and inventory data and communicate recommendations clearly.

• Ability to travel to stores, meetings, or vendor appointments as needed.

Success Measures

• Improved sales and margin performance from display and ad-supported programs.

• Timely and accurate display distributions aligned to promotional plans.

• Consistent execution of display priorities across stores.

• Strong collaboration with Center Store directors, category managers and cross-functional partners.

• Reduced execution gaps, out-of-stocks, and excess display inventory.

• Clear communication of promotional and display expectations to store teams.

Weis Markets is an Equal Opportunity Employer:  Weis Markets is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of actual or perceived age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, familial status, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital status, military or veteran status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with a disability may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation under terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the ways things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Weis Markets.