<p>Company Overview</p> <p>Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a "Bridgestone West" strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.</p> <p>Position Summary</p> <p>Lead strategy and direction of Service Under Car categories. Collaborate with other members of the Merchandising team including Pricing Manager and Director, Service Merchandising to develop strategies to maximize sales and profit of categories. Manages financial performance for assigned categories. Transformational leader that can optimize processes/resources and challenge the organization.</p> <p>Responsibilities</p> <p>Essential Job Functions:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Manages sales and profits for categories and acts as primary point of contact with vendor team. Develop strategies to maximize revenue and profitability</p> </li><li> <p>Collects, verifies and analyzes data on industry market trends, supplier and consumer behavior and competitor activity to identify market opportunities</p> </li><li> <p>Develop and implement new long and short term strategies, policies and procedures impacting product merchandising including but not limited to product introduction/discontinuation, product knowledge in POS, education material and in store merchandising to assure proper reflection of merchandising strategy</p> </li><li> <p>Leads cross-functional participants (Education, Operations, Procurement and Marketing) in driving category strategies and achieving category objectives</p> </li><li> <p>Perform various reporting including sales reports, margin opportunities, promotional analysis, line and sku analysis, etc and prepare presentations for Executive Leadership Team to summarize results</p> </li><li> <p>Creates marketing/promotional plans that drive success with the BOSS</p> </li><li> <p>Makes Pricing and Capital Investment recommendations</p> </li></ul> <p>Minimum Qualifications</p> <p>Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Training & Development</p> <ul> <li> <p>Bachelor's degree required. Master's Degree preferred.</p> </li><li> <p>Minimum 2 to 4 years retail experience in merchandising, finance, accounting or marketing.</p> </li><li> <p>Demonstrated extensive systems knowledge and familiarity with various applications.</p> </li><li> <p>Demonstrated solid grasp of data flow management.</p> </li><li> <p>Effective organizational and time management skills.</p> </li><li> <p>Strong modeling and forecasting skills.</p> </li></ul>