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 day-to-day 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, non-HD 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, president’s 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 post-acquisition follow-up 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 medium-term 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 master’s degree is preferred.
- Eight plus years of experience is preferred.
Minimum Education:- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor’s 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