What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assoc Area Manager position at Costa Farms?
Description
Position Overview
The Associate Area Sales Manager is a key role responsible for overseeing third party merchandising operations within a specific geographical area or region. This includes managing the visual presentation, product assortment, and inventory levels to drive sales and enhance the overall customer experience. The Area Sales Manager collaborates closely with store managers and other cross-functional teams to ensure consistent execution of merchandising strategies and objectives.
Duties & Responsibilities
Associate Area Manager
Additional Responsibilities
Physical Demands
Position Overview
The Associate Area Sales Manager is a key role responsible for overseeing third party merchandising operations within a specific geographical area or region. This includes managing the visual presentation, product assortment, and inventory levels to drive sales and enhance the overall customer experience. The Area Sales Manager collaborates closely with store managers and other cross-functional teams to ensure consistent execution of merchandising strategies and objectives.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Reports to the Key Account Manager
- Support and maintain a professional, team environment.
- Communicate, monitor, and help execute weekly merchandising initiatives with 3rd party service teams.
- Collaborate with the Account Manager and Replenishment Team to ensure stores are properly stocked.
- Participate in weekly conference calls with Account Manager, Centralized Replenishment Team and 3rd party service teams.
- Conduct regular store visits to assess compliance with Live Goods Department/Visual standards and provide feedback.
- Resolve store level customer service issues and requests.
- Participate in district functions such as resets and events.
- While the role is managerial, store visits may include walking the sales floor, evaluating displays, ensuring product visibility, and sometimes providing hands-on support to the merchandising team.
Associate Area Manager
Additional Responsibilities
- Availability for flexible schedule changes based on business needs (including but not limited to seasonal demand and additional hours outside of the regular work schedule, such as weekends, nights, and holidays).
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather information or help as required.
- Represent the Costa Farms brand by upholding standards of excellence, consistency, and professionalism, while also supporting the positive brand image of the assigned store.
- Represent the Costa Farms brand by upholding standards of excel lence, and professionalism, while also supporting the positive brand image of the assigned stores.
- Perform additional duties as required.
- A high school diploma or equivalent; relevant technical certification is preferred.
- 2 to 3 years of management / leadership experience.
- Must have a current driver’s license.
- Previous experience is a plus.
Physical Demands
- Pushing and pulling fully loaded rolling delivery racks of product as needed.
- Work long hours as needed during the busy season, including weekends and holidays.
- Continuously walk, stand, bend, kneel as well as reaching overhead, and from side to side for long periods of time
- Ability to work outside in inclement weather, rain, wind, heat, cold, direct sun, etc.
- Work in a fast-paced and diverse environment
- The role is mobile and involves frequent travel between multiple Home Depot locations to ensure consistent execution of merchandising standards, and operational performance.