Product Development Merchant

Major Tasks, Responsibilities, and Key Accountabilities
- Drives product innovation and vitality by identifying globally competitive products and services in order to drive sustained growth across specific product categories.
- Provides customized, cost-effective, quality products to remain competitive utilizing knowledge of private label sourcing expertise to drive sales and profitability.
- Identifies and qualifies domestic and international vendors in order to develop and manufacture globally competitive, private label products that meet organizational customer demands and quality expectations.
- Collaborates with each business and merchant team to drive product selection and line reviews.
- Negotiates, prepares, and executes supplier contracts and drives contract compliance while conducting supplier capacity and capability studies.
- Manages and measures supplier performance and consolidates supply base, as appropriate, to improve sourcing effectiveness.
- Works closely with product and design engineering, global merchant leaders, and sourcing quality teams to identify critical to quality flow-down characteristics in order to drive supplier processes and specifications for product development including, packaging, safety and environmental issues.

Nature and Scope
- Problems are typically defined by higher level leadership. Problems are difficult. Solutions require analysis and investigation.
- Decides how to achieve planned results within an organization's plans, policies, and guidelines. May set or change plans/goals within respective department or area.
- May manage department via multiple layers of managers OR directly supervise a staff of professional individual contributors at the senior or technical advisor level.

Work Environment
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
- 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.
- Typically requires overnight travel 20% to 50% of the time.

Education and Experience
- Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 9+ years of experience in a related field, including several years in a management/supervisory capacity.

Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a finance, engineering, business or a related field.
- 7+ years of product development, merchandising, supply chain, or product engineering experience.
- Strong quantitative and data analysis skills.
- Strong project management and process improvement skills.

Our Goals for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We are committed to creating a culture that promotes equity, respect, and advocacy for every HD Supply associate. We value the diversity of our people.

Equal Employment Opportunity

HD Supply is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.