Who We Are
At Academy Sports + Outdoors our vision is to be the best sports + outdoors retailer in the country â but what truly sets us apart is our people. Weâre a passionate, purpose-driven team thatâs as committed to each other as we are to our customers.
Weâve spent over 80 years building a culture that puts people first. We believe in creating opportunities for growth, fostering meaningful connections, and supporting every Team Memberâs journey. What fuels us? Our belief in the power of fun.
Here, you wonât just help customers gear up for their next adventure â youâll launch one of your own. Whether you're starting out or leveling up, Academy is a place where fun canât lose! Â
Education:
- Bachelorâs degree in a quantitative discipline: Economics, IT, Supply Chain, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent years of related work experience required
Work Experiences:
- 4+ years of retail buying, retail operations or relevant work experience required
- 1+ year of supervisory or management experience preferred
Skills:
- Drive and influences change via behavior and enthusiasm in his/her work lead process implementations and drive mindset changes to improve productivity and/or profitability
- Microsoft Office with Advanced Excel Skills
- Exceptional analytical skills & financial literacy
- Strong Presentation skills - must excel at communicating complex information in simple to understand yet actionable ways
- Strong interpersonal, written, verbal communication with the ability to interface effectively with individuals at various levels within the organization
- Strong attention to detail and sound problem solving skills for technical and business issues
- Project Management - establishing key milestones & focusing on deliverables, following up with key stakeholders and delivering on time/on budget
- Expert knowledge of JDA Category Management Suite
- Ability to prioritize and manage a large volume of work across multiple projects in a fast paced frequently changing environment
- Ability to produce high quality work that is very detailed, accurate and completed on schedule
- Sound listening and analytical skills, likes problem solving and offering creative ideas/resolution to challenges
- Responds positively to change, by embracing and adopting new direction and process changes required to accomplish goals and solve problems
Responsibilities:
- Leads a sub-set of the teamâs efforts in partnership with merchandise planning and visual merchandising organizations to achieve sales and profit objectives through accurate space analysis, efficient macro and micro space planning and consumer centric planogram creation.
- Builds and maintains collaborative partnerships with Merchant, Visual Merchandise Presentation Creative, Inventory, and Store Operations teams. Consistently works cross-functionally to gain alignment on planograms and/or merchandise plans in accordance to strategic business presentation objectives.
- Executes quality control measures for planograms and/or merchandise plans ensuring accuracy of store assignments, compliance with strategic vision and/or corporate standards, and attention to detail.
- Actively leads continual process improvement efforts, evaluates planogram effectiveness and makes recommendations to maximize workflow efficiencies. Finds causal factors that can constrain performance and profits. Visibly drives for and delivers process improvements
- Provides store support regarding planograms and/or merchandising plans. Acts with a strong sense of urgency to anticipate customer needs. Takes responsibility for finding lasting solutions to difficult problems.
- Manage JDA Intactix Floorplanning floorplan changes for all stores within assigned Regions and maintains current and future view of all stores within the application. Develop mastery across an array of functions â including but not limited to, creation of layouts, loading tiers, pulling data and maintaining store attributes.
- Understand merchandising and planning strategies, communicate these strategies to cross-functional partners as guiding principles while also applying general direction to individual stores.
- Direct all aspects of visual merchandising, including planogram creation, fixture-graphic fulfillment, and reset coordination.
- Serve as an integral part of the Category Merchandising Team (CMT) in driving sales, gross margin and turn.
- Provide data and analytics to influence decision-making in merchandise buys, assortment tiers, marketing, creative and product allocations.
- Take ownership of special projects and initiatives and report back to team on new developments, strategies, and/ or roll-out plans.
- Oversee analytics and assortment optimization to increase retailer category sales and perform strategic category analysis and insights discovery.
- Lead the development and implementation of new innovative fixture initiatives and serve as the visual merchandising strategy expert.
- Coordinate the onboarding and training of new existing Category Space Planners for the category team.
- Duties may change; team member may be required to perform other duties as assigned
Physical Requirements & Attendance:
- Acceptable level of hearing and vision to perform job duties
- Adhere to company work hours, policies, procedures and rules governing professional staff behavior
- Regular attendance required
- Ability to work flexible hours such as evening, weekends, and holidays as necessary
- Up to 20% travel, overnight stays as required
Equal Employment Opportunity
Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate with regard to employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by law.â