Merchandising Services Manager - Louisville - BP Americas, Inc.

Description

Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Retail Group

Job Description:

The Merchandising Services Manager is responsible for leading, training, and supporting merchandising teams to ensure consistent execution of merchandising strategies across assigned locations. This role serves as a key liaison between corporate stakeholders, field teams, clients, and vendors to drive operational excellence, brand compliance, and measurable results.

Job Summary

• Provide clear direction, mentor, and support to teams across multiple locations.
• Nurture a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance team environment.
• Set objectives, supervise progress, and conduct regular performance evaluations.
• Develop talent with sophisticated skills in digital merchandising, analytics, and innovation.
• Ensure pricing accuracy, compliance, and timely execution of price changes and promotions.
• Optimize store layouts and product placement using analytics to improve sales and enhance customer experience.
• Manage supplier relationships and contracts in alignment with company policies and regulatory standards.
• Support new store openings, remodels, and special projects with tailored merchandising solutions.
• Continuously improve space planning strategies to drive operational efficiency and financial results.
• Identify and implement process improvements and best practices.
• Establish and supervise innovation and operational metrics, reporting outcomes to leadership.
• Own the adoption of new technologies, data analytics, and automation.
• Collaborate with category management to develop and implement merchandise strategies.
• Build positive relationships with internal and external partners to achieve business objectives.
• Facilitate effective communication between merchandising, category management, and operations.

Qualifications

• Experience in merchandising, retail price book, supply chain management, or related operational roles.
• People management experience is preferred.
• Proven experience handling retail teams across multiple geographies.
• Strong understanding of planograms execution, merchandising standards, and retail environments, including performance based metrics.
• Experience negotiating with suppliers, handling wholesale contracts and vendor or client-facing relationships.
• Familiarity with merchandising systems (e.g. PDI, S2K, SAP, Blue Yonder / JDA).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Business, Supply Chain, Retail Management, Marketing or a related field.

You will work with

• Team is comprised of 3 key functional areas: Space Planning, Price Book, and Supply Chain Management and support both our convenience and fleet businesses.
• Supports more than 1,000 sites across the US, including company owned and franchise channels of trade.
• Opportunity to experience managing a team with international footprint and drive transformation, leaning into new technologies and magnetic solutions.
• Key primary interfaces include category managers, marketing, construction and design teams, field operations, business leaders and national vendors.

How much do we pay (Base)? $106,000 - $196,000

*Note that the pay range listed for this position is a genuinely expected and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting.?

This position is eligible for US Benefits - Select. This position offers paid vacation depending on your years of relevant industry experience and will range from hours of vacation per year for full time employees hours of vacation per year for part time employees). You will also be eligible for 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays. You may learn more about how we calculate paid vacation and view our generous vacation and holiday schedules at Benefits US S elect ) . Bp has a parental leave policy as well, which offers up to 8 weeks' paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child. Learn more by visiting Benefits US S elect ) .

We offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These offerings include a discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and generous retirement benefits that include a 401k matching program. These benefits include a pension for eligible employee. You may learn more about our generous benefits at Benefits US S elect ) .

As part of bp's wellbeing package, bp offers access to health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. You may learn more about our generous benefits at Benefits US S elect ) .

Travel Requirement

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Agreements and negotiations, Analytical Thinking, Business Acumen, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning, Creativity and Innovation, customer and competitor understanding, Customer centric thinking, Customer data knowledge, Data Analysis, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Digital Collaboration, Digital Fluency, Industry knowledge and advocacy, Integrated pricing, Knowledge Sharing, Leading transformation, market, Negotiation planning and preparation, Offer and product knowledge {+ 13 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp's recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us .

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.