Company Background:

Established in 1928, Genuine Parts Company is a leading global service organization specializing in the distribution of automotive and industrial replacement parts. Our Automotive Parts Group operates across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australasia, France, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Portugal, while our Industrial Parts Group serves customers in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Australasia. We keep the world moving with a vast network of over 10,700 locations spanning 17 countries supported by more than 60,000 teammates. 

Position Purpose:

This role provides a unique opportunity for a digital professional to play a critical role in helping to grow digital business within NAPA North America.  Based in Atlanta, this person will be a member of the Digital Channel Management team and play a key role in helping operate and grow revenue of our Automotive eCommerce sites.

As a Sr. Specialist this role will be responsible for establishing online merchandising objectives across multiple experiences, supporting a Merchandising Category Director with a minimum annual revenue of $200 million or more. This will involve managing a business on all channels both B2B and B2C while leveraging the products, processes, and assets from our existing selling models. This role will be involved in the online assortment planning process to focus on selling online and supporting our stores to create an omnichannel experience. The Sr. Specialist will work heavily with Category teams, product teams, pricing teams, retail promotions teams, eCommerce operations teams, and others as needed to drive increased online sales.

This role is a key support to the Category Director, who has full P&L responsibilities for multiple category managers, category initiatives, pro-actively bringing best practice and recommendations forward. The key liaison point for a wide range of both internal and external stakeholders including: Product Suppliers / Manufacturers, Marketing, Pricing, Promotions, Sales and Operations.

Additionally, this role will help drive online conversion through analytics, user experience, and on and off-site merchandising and increase attachment rate by identifying and improving cross-sells and other cross-merchandising opportunities. Leads will oversee the day-to-day projects and deliverables of their partnering specialist, who will assist in the tactical execution of initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for exceeding the business goals (eSales & related) for the assigned Merchandising Category.
• Analyze digital & omni-channel opportunities through the eyes of the B2B customer, develop and execute digital merchandising strategies, including buying experience, online assortment, pricing, availability & delivery.
• Analyze category performance, drive actions and develop levers to improve performance
• Build BIC omni-channel category GTM & experience plans, including those for:
  • Online Product & presentation (assortment, brands, quality, etc.)
  • Placement (availability & delivery experience online)
  • Digital & Omni-Channel Experience (Catalog, Taxonomy, Search, category-specific features & functionalities)
  • Price & Promotion
• Partner with Category Manager to align above omni-channel plans to overall category strategy
• In collaboration with the product team, lead the development of category-specific features to focus on improving traffic, conversion, and sales
• Recommend online merchandise assortments by category and continually evaluate, analyze, and adjust assortments based on performance and sales trends
• Analyze, forecast and interpret market and consumer trends for online implications in partnership with other teams, including product, inventory planning, and others
• Conduct regular digital merchandising reviews of competitive websites to understand their merchandising and promotional strategies to inform our approach, specifically B2B.
• Work with the digital analytics team to analyze overall KPI’s, promotion performance, and market analysis as they pertain to specific business area and react accordingly. Provide recommendations on future assortments, promotions and navigation based on past performance and industry insight.
• Work with the on-site search, catalog, and engineering teams to monitor and manage search, facets, and attribution to ensure relevant results.
• Participate in the product lifecycle planning with the eCommerce team and ensure that all teams are aligned with the business strategy and approaches the business from a customer-centric perspective.
• Promotional execution, identifying and developing solid product content, optimizing online navigation, and maintaining clean well merchandised category pages
• Provide recommendations to cross functional teams based on customer feedback and known issues to improve functionality
• Maintain knowledge of current systems, applications, functionality, competitive landscape and digital innovations
• Develop and enhancement subject matter expertise of the brands, product lines, and customers served through our automotive eCommerce sites.

Measures of Success

• Sales
• Promotional effectiveness
• Category growth online

Location:

• GPC has two work locations to choose from, Duluth or Atlanta office.

• We offer a Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees to work a hybrid remote schedule.

Desired Qualifications & Experiences:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing or equivalent experience
• 2 (3+ preferred) years of relevant digital & eCommerce experience with 2+ years B2B eCommerce. Automotive or Industrial, B2B eCommerce & industry experience is preferred; however, exceptions may be considered
• Demonstrated ability to meet commitments, build consensus, negotiate resolutions, and garner respect from other teams
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to facilitate and work internally across all teams as well as externally with partners and vendors
• Active listening, superior written and oral communication skills
• Effective verbal and written communication skills for interaction with internal stakeholders, vendors, senior management and staff
• Superior problem-solving skills, prioritization, project management, multitasking, focus on detail and comfortable taking ownership of assigned tasks
• Background in or passion for user experience and human-centered design a plus.
• Experience with Digital Analytics and/or Business Intelligence Reporting tools (Google/Adobe Analytics, PowerBI) and ability to analyze and gather insights from large data sets

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