Sr. Manager Pro Operations

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:
• •No additional education

• Minimum Years of Work Experience:
• •6

• Preferred Years of Work Experience:
• •No additional years of experience

• Minimum Leadership Experience:
• •None

• Preferred Leadership Experience:
• •None

• Certifications:
• •None

• 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