# Merchant

Job Summary Responsible for establishing merchandising objectives for a category or categories of merchandise. Drive the financial planning process and manage the process from recommending targets to pricing optimization. Drive the assortment planning process, from business performance review to supplier negotiations. Create operational plans used in SOAR execution. Oversee the supplier management strategy and works to source and rationalize suppliers to meet business needs. Responsible for approximately $350 million in business dollars. Major Tasks, Responsibilities, and Key Accountabilities Acts as key decision maker on merchandising and finance operational issues. Utilizes current market data (industry/competitive) to drive merchandising strategy. Determines consumers to target for a specific category and collaboratively decides the strategic direction of the business segment. Executes and manages visual merchandising, new concept development, marketing / catalog, vendor services, inventory management, and supply chain issues. Responsible for developing and executing plan to meet annual financial goals which include Sales Performance, Category Profitability and Category Inventor

- **Id**: 3969179
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hd-supply-merchant-2>
- **Role**: Finance
- **Role family**: Finance
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Atlanta, United States, Jacksonville, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T15:27:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T21:37:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3235
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Wholesale, B2B Commerce, Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO)

## Company

- **Id**: 2066669
- **Name**: HD Supply
- **Domain**: hdsupply.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/hdsupply-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 19
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.421
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 28
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T15:27:14Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 20 · green card filings: 7; Filings 12m: 20

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T01:35:52Z

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