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Commissary Management Specialist (Merchandising)

Full Time
$107,915 – $140,293 Per Year
Closing on Dec 26, 2024

Location:
Virginia, Fort Gregg-Adams
Requires Relocation:
Yes
Start Date:
11/12/2024
End Date:
26/12/2024
Offering Type:
Permanent
Hiring Paths:
Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL) The public Veterans
Service Type:
Competitive
Travel Percentage:
50% or less

About Defense Commissary Agency

The foundation for success of the Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) mission is our people. We have a workforce of more than 13,000, reflecting our nation’s diverse cultures and backgrounds, and annual sales of more than $4 billion. We take pride in offering a valued benefit that contributes to military family readiness and enhances quality of life by providing a service that almost all military families use. As one of the few international grocery chains, we operate 236 commissaries throughout the world. We are a grocery store and a whole lot more. Commissary Website Must be able to satisfy the requirements of the 26JUL12 DODI 1400.25 V1230, DoD Civilian Personnel Management System: Employment in Foreign Areas and Employee Return Rights.

Job summary

Serves as the Commissary Management Specialist (Merchandising) to the category manager and other team members and identifies opportunities that deliver category growth through insight-based recommendations to ensure patron savings. The position requires high energy, assertive leadership skills, and aptitude to resolve complex problems, understand market dynamics, and employ strong decision-making skills. Read the entire announcement before starting the application process.

Major duties

Position responsibilities include: Serve as the category expert consultant by identifying category best practices. Initiate and synchronize brand strategies/ priorities with patron strategies for a win-win outcome. Perform analyses of data and processes and perform data gathering and identification of potential data. Use analysis to develop trends, recommend solutions and provide data to Agency management as well as to a variety of government and private organizations. Determine the baseline cost associated with DeCA's overall category performance program.

Qualification

You must meet qualifications and requirements by the announcement closing date. Your resume must clearly show that you meet the qualifications (i.e., specialized experience) for the grade level. At the GS-13 grade level, you can meet minimum qualifications only through having the required specialized experience. Specialized experience is demonstrated knowledge of retail procurement and distribution methods; principles, procedures, and techniques of retail food merchandising and retail food store management, and developments in commercial retail food store items, equipment, and practices. Examples of creditable qualifying specialized experience include: Managing a commissary store, supermarket, or similar type of commercial retail food store. Managing a department in a retail food store. Planning, standardizing, or controlling operations in an assigned group of retail food stores. Developing, interpreting, or applying policies, procedures, and operating standards for use in a retail food store. Providing technical advice on merchandising and operational matters pertaining to grocery, meats, and produce supplies, as well as front-end operations. Working in the retail grocery/supermarket environment (i.e., retailer, manufacturer, supplier, broker, headquarters, region, and field) in support of category management processes, commercial retail food merchandising, and retail food management practices. Providing input to the development and execution of a retail grocery category management and review program to include category, consumer, and sales analysis, market research, identification and use of category and retail best practices. Developing retail grocery category presentations, recommendations for new item introductions, promotional activity, product positioning, and planogram reviews. Supporting a retail grocery category management program through the application of the most recent sales technologies including shelf planning and management, syndicated data, category analyzer, point of sale, and scanning data applications, with emphasis on fact-based selling. Establishing strong, multi-level working relationships with assigned business team members. You will receive credit for all relevant qualifying experience (paid and unpaid), including volunteer work done through National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Qualifications One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level. As part of the online application process, you will respond to a series of questions designed to evaluate your possession of these competencies: Category Management Communication Merchandising Overtime: Occasional Bargaining Unit Status: Not covered Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt Obligated Position: If obligated, you occupying the position is subject to the former incumbent returning. If the former incumbent does not return to the position, your occupancy may become permanent. Tentative job offers identify if the position you are offered is obligated. Those retired under CSRS or FERS considered: No. DoD criteria not met. Recruitment/Relocation Incentives Offered: None

Education

For this grade level, you must meet the qualification requirement through experience alone. You may not use education to qualify.

Evaluations

HR reviews your resume and supporting documents to determine if you meet the qualifications and requirements, and to determine if you meet the eligibility/eligibilities you selected. Your questionnaire score is a preliminary measure of how well your background matches the competencies. If you submit multiple resumes, the last one received is used for this evaluation and sent to the hiring manager if you are referred for selection consideration. Selections are subject to restrictions of the DoD referral system for displaced employees. Application Review. We review your application package to confirm your appointment eligibility, determine your qualifications, verify you meet the position requirements, and adjudicate any claimed preference (e.g., veterans', military spouse) or priority (e.g., ICTAP). If your application package lacks any of the information necessary to make these determinations, or the information is illegible, we may determine you are ineligible for consideration. Your questionnaire score is a preliminary measure of how well your background matches the required competencies and it determines the quality category to which you are assigned. The quality categories are: Best Qualified - Candidates who possess the type and quality of experience that substantially exceeds the position's minimum qualifications, including all selective placement factors and appropriate quality ranking factors. Highly Qualified - Candidates who possess the type and quality of experience that exceeds the position's minimum qualifications. Qualified - Candidates who meet the minimum qualifications and are proficient in some but not all of the position's requirements. In accordance with category rating procedures, qualified and appointable applicants are referred for selection consideration, subject to restrictions of the DoD referral system for displaced employees. Candidates in the best qualified category are referred to hiring managers before candidates in other categories. Within the best qualified category, candidates are referred in the following order: adjudicated veterans' preference candidates with 10-point preference, adjudicated veterans' preference candidates with other than 10-point preference, military spouse preference candidates, and candidates with no preference. Neither preference nor priority entitles you to a Federal job. You must apply, meet the qualification standards and all additional requirements, and submit all necessary documents. Interagency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP). This program applies to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority for this position, you must: 1) meet ICTAP eligibility criteria AND 2) be rated well-qualified for the position AND 3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your ICTAP eligibility. Well-qualified means you possess the type and quality of experience that exceeds the position's minimum qualifications. See the Required Documents section of this announcement for more information.