FT Merchandising Manager
for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections have content.
The posting includes: description of role (Merchandise Manager drives...). That's about the role. Then "Major Activities" list of duties. That's responsibilities. Then "Other Duties As Assigned". Then "Minimum Type of Experience Required". Then "Work Environment" list of physical abilities. Then "Applicants in the U.S...." maybe legal requirement but we drop boilerplate? It's not cookie/legal/EEO? It's about legal requirements; might be considered boilerplate? It says "Applicants in the U.S. must satisfy federal, state, and local legal requirements of the job." That's generic; maybe drop. Then company description (At The Michaels Companies Inc., our purpose...). That's about company; could be part of About the role? Might be considered boilerplate? It's not navigation/legal/EEO but it's company overview. Might keep as part of About the role? The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Company overview is not explicitly prohibited; but we should preserve substantive information. It's somewhat generic but still about the company. Might keep as a paragraph under About the role.
Then benefits: "Michaels offers a range of benefits..." That's benefits section. So we need Benefits heading.
Pay and Schedule: Not mentioned explicitly. No pay or schedule specifics. So we should not create those sections.
Qualifications: The "Minimum Type of Experience Required" is a qualification. Could be under Requirements or Qualifications. We have both Requirements and Qualifications headings possible. We need to decide which to use. The posting includes "Minimum Type of Experience Required 3+ years retail leadership experience". That's a requirement. Also "Work Environment" physical abilities could be under Requirements or Qualifications. Could combine into a Requirements section.
Skills: Not explicitly listed; maybe we could infer but we shouldn't invent. So no Skills section.
Thus we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits.
We need to use for each heading. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to extract the content.
Let's parse:
About the role: The first paragraph: "Store - SOUTHERN PINES, NC The Merchandise Manager drives merchandising and operational execution, including truck processing, inventory routines, planogram sets, and visual standards. This role ensures accurate pricing, timely promotional execution, and a customer-ready store environment through strong workload planning and inventory management."
Also maybe include company purpose paragraph: "At The Michaels Companies Inc., our purpose is to fuel the joy of creativity and celebration. As the leading destination for creating and celebrating in North America, we operate over 1,300 stores in 49 states and Canada and online at Michaels.com and Michaels.ca. The Michaels Companies, Inc. also owns Artistree, a manufacturer of custom and specialty framing merchandise. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, Michaels is the best place for all things creative. For more information, please visit www.michaels.com." This is substantive about company; we can include as part of About the role.
We should not include the "Michaels offers a range of benefits..." in About role; that's separate Benefits.
Now Responsibilities: The "Major Activities" list. Let's extract each bullet:
- Assist Store Manager in leading and managing adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Company programs to ensure compliance with applicable laws and requirements.
- Ensure execution of Company policies and standards, holding team accountable for store conditions and results.
- Provide Manager-on-Duty (MOD) coverage, maintaining floor leadership, service standards, and operational continuity.
- Lead truck execution processes, ensuring timely unloading, accurate sorting, and efficient flow of merchandise to the sales floor.
- Own workload planning and daily task prioritization, partnering with store leadership to align staffing and execution to business needs.
- Execute and maintain SISO (Store-In-Stock Optimization) routines to drive in-stock levels, replenishment accuracy, and sales readiness.
- Oversee Planogram (POG) execution, ensuring merchandising sets are completed accurately and on schedule.
- Establish and maintain visual merchandising standards, including initial product placement and presentation to company expectations.
- Support a clean, organized, and customer-ready store environment, including backroom organization and sales floor recovery.
- Manage key aspects of inventory control, ensuring product accuracy, integrity, and efficient stock movement.
- Execute ad sets, ensuring promotional signage and product placement are compliant and customer focused.
- Complete price changes accurately and on time, maintaining pricing integrity across the sales floor and systems.
- Oversee Ship from Store fulfillment, ensuring orders are picked, packed, and shipped efficiently and accurately.
- Process RTVs (Return to Vendor) and ASN receiving, ensuring compliance, documentation accuracy, and proper inventory adjustments.
- Manage store damages procedures, ensuring proper handling, reporting, and shrink reduction
- Train, coach, and develop team members through structured TM onboarding and ongoing skill-building across assigned departments.
- Partner in maintaining strong Asset Protection practices, reducing shrink through awareness, compliance, and safe operations.
Also "Other Duties As Assigned" - we could include as a bullet or note.
We'll put these in a
.
Requirements: Includes "Minimum Type of Experience Required 3+ years retail leadership experience". Also Work Environment list:
- Ability to remain standing for long periods of time
- Ability to move throughout the store
- Regular bending, lifting, carrying, reaching, and stretching
- Ability to lift, carry, push, and pull merchandise and fixtures, up to 25-50 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Ability to climb ladders or step stools to stock and retrieve products.
- Ability to perform repetitive motions, including scanning items, stocking shelves, and operating POS equipment.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with frequent customer interactions.
- Work hours include nights, weekends and early mornings
Also "Applicants in the U.S. must satisfy federal, state, and local legal requirements of the job." Might be considered legal boilerplate; but it's a requirement. However it's generic; maybe we can drop as it's not specific. The instruction: remove legal/EEO boilerplate. This is a legal requirement statement; could be considered boilerplate. Safer to drop.
Thus Requirements section will have experience requirement and work environment abilities.
We could split into two sub-sections? But we only have one heading Requirements. We'll include a paragraph for experience, then a for work environment.
Benefits: The paragraph: "Michaels offers a range of benefits to support team members and their families. Depending on position and eligibility, team members may have access to a 401(k) with employer match, an Employee Assistance Program, medical, dental, and vision coverage, telemedicine services, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, tuition assistance, adoption assistance, and various voluntary insurance options. All team members enjoy everyday perks such as employee discounts and access to partner discount programs. For a summary of benefits, visit the Michaels Benefits at a Glance page. For additional information regarding benefits, visit MIKBenefits.com"
We should preserve all that. Not include the "For a summary..." links? It's part of benefits description; we can keep as prose.
We should not include the EEO statements etc.
Now construct HTML.
We'll output:
About the role
Store - SOUTHERN PINES, NC The Merchandise Manager drives merchandising and operational execution, including truck processing, inventory routines, planogram sets, and visual standards. This role ensures accurate pricing, timely promotional execution, and a customer-ready store environment through strong workload planning and inventory management.
At The Michaels Companies Inc., our purpose is to fuel the joy of creativity and celebration. As the leading destination for creating and celebrating in North America, we operate over 1,300 stores in 49 states and Canada and online at Michaels.com and Michaels.ca. The Michaels Companies, Inc. also owns Artistree, a manufacturer of custom and specialty framing merchandise. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, Michaels is the best place for all things creative. For more information, please visit www.michaels.com.
Responsibilities
- Assist Store Manager in leading and managing adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Company programs to ensure compliance with applicable laws and requirements.
- Ensure execution of Company policies and standards, holding team accountable for store conditions and results.
- Provide Manager-on-Duty (MOD) coverage, maintaining floor leadership, service standards, and operational continuity.
- Lead truck execution processes, ensuring timely unloading, accurate sorting, and efficient flow of merchandise to the sales floor.
- Own workload planning and daily task prioritization, partnering with store leadership to align staffing and execution to business needs.
- Execute and maintain SISO (Store-In-Stock Optimization) routines to drive in-stock levels, replenishment accuracy, and sales readiness.
- Oversee Planogram (POG) execution, ensuring merchandising sets are completed accurately and on schedule.
- Establish and maintain visual merchandising standards, including initial product placement and presentation to company expectations.
- Support a clean, organized, and customer-ready store environment, including backroom organization and sales floor recovery.
- Manage key aspects of inventory control, ensuring product accuracy, integrity, and efficient stock movement.
- Execute ad sets, ensuring promotional signage and product placement are compliant and customer focused.
- Complete price changes accurately and on time, maintaining pricing integrity across the sales floor and systems.
- Oversee Ship from Store fulfillment, ensuring orders are picked, packed, and shipped efficiently and accurately.
- Process RTVs (Return to Vendor) and ASN receiving, ensuring compliance, documentation accuracy, and proper inventory adjustments.
- Manage store damages procedures, ensuring proper handling, reporting, and shrink reduction.
- Train, coach, and develop team members through structured TM onboarding and ongoing skill-building across assigned departments.
- Partner in maintaining strong Asset Protection practices, reducing shrink through awareness, compliance, and safe operations.
- Other Duties As Assigned
Requirements
Minimum Type of Experience Required: 3+ years retail leadership experience.
- Ability to remain standing for long periods of time
- Ability to move throughout the store
- Regular bending, lifting, carrying, reaching, and stretching
- Ability to lift, carry, push, and pull merchandise and fixtures, up to 25-50 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Ability to climb ladders or step stools to stock and retrieve products.
- Ability to perform repetitive motions, including scanning items, stocking shelves, and operating POS equipment.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with frequent customer interactions.
- Work hours include nights, weekends and early mornings
Benefits
Michaels offers a range of benefits to support team members and their families. Depending on position and eligibility, team members may have access to a 401(k) with employer match, an Employee Assistance Program, medical, dental, and vision coverage, telemedicine services, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, tuition assistance, adoption assistance, and various voluntary insurance options. All team
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose. We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Must not include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to extract the content. Let's parse: About the role: The first paragraph: "Store - SOUTHERN PINES, NC The Merchandise Manager drives merchandising and operational execution, including truck processing, inventory routines, planogram sets, and visual standards. This role ensures accurate pricing, timely promotional execution, and a customer-ready store environment through strong workload planning and inventory management." Also maybe include company purpose paragraph: "At The Michaels Companies Inc., our purpose is to fuel the joy of creativity and celebration. As the leading destination for creating and celebrating in North America, we operate over 1,300 stores in 49 states and Canada and online at Michaels.com and Michaels.ca. The Michaels Companies, Inc. also owns Artistree, a manufacturer of custom and specialty framing merchandise. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, Michaels is the best place for all things creative. For more information, please visit www.michaels.com." This is substantive about company; we can include as part of About the role. We should not include the "Michaels offers a range of benefits..." in About role; that's separate Benefits. Now Responsibilities: The "Major Activities" list. Let's extract each bullet: - Assist Store Manager in leading and managing adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Company programs to ensure compliance with applicable laws and requirements. - Ensure execution of Company policies and standards, holding team accountable for store conditions and results. - Provide Manager-on-Duty (MOD) coverage, maintaining floor leadership, service standards, and operational continuity. - Lead truck execution processes, ensuring timely unloading, accurate sorting, and efficient flow of merchandise to the sales floor. - Own workload planning and daily task prioritization, partnering with store leadership to align staffing and execution to business needs. - Execute and maintain SISO (Store-In-Stock Optimization) routines to drive in-stock levels, replenishment accuracy, and sales readiness. - Oversee Planogram (POG) execution, ensuring merchandising sets are completed accurately and on schedule. - Establish and maintain visual merchandising standards, including initial product placement and presentation to company expectations. - Support a clean, organized, and customer-ready store environment, including backroom organization and sales floor recovery. - Manage key aspects of inventory control, ensuring product accuracy, integrity, and efficient stock movement. - Execute ad sets, ensuring promotional signage and product placement are compliant and customer focused. - Complete price changes accurately and on time, maintaining pricing integrity across the sales floor and systems. - Oversee Ship from Store fulfillment, ensuring orders are picked, packed, and shipped efficiently and accurately. - Process RTVs (Return to Vendor) and ASN receiving, ensuring compliance, documentation accuracy, and proper inventory adjustments. - Manage store damages procedures, ensuring proper handling, reporting, and shrink reduction - Train, coach, and develop team members through structured TM onboarding and ongoing skill-building across assigned departments. - Partner in maintaining strong Asset Protection practices, reducing shrink through awareness, compliance, and safe operations. Also "Other Duties As Assigned" - we could include as a bullet or note. We'll put these in a
- .
Requirements: Includes "Minimum Type of Experience Required 3+ years retail leadership experience". Also Work Environment list:
- Ability to remain standing for long periods of time
- Ability to move throughout the store
- Regular bending, lifting, carrying, reaching, and stretching
- Ability to lift, carry, push, and pull merchandise and fixtures, up to 25-50 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Ability to climb ladders or step stools to stock and retrieve products.
- Ability to perform repetitive motions, including scanning items, stocking shelves, and operating POS equipment.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with frequent customer interactions.
- Work hours include nights, weekends and early mornings
Also "Applicants in the U.S. must satisfy federal, state, and local legal requirements of the job." Might be considered legal boilerplate; but it's a requirement. However it's generic; maybe we can drop as it's not specific. The instruction: remove legal/EEO boilerplate. This is a legal requirement statement; could be considered boilerplate. Safer to drop.
Thus Requirements section will have experience requirement and work environment abilities.
We could split into two sub-sections? But we only have one heading Requirements. We'll include a paragraph for experience, then a
- Assist Store Manager in leading and managing adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Company programs to ensure compliance with applicable laws and requirements.
- Ensure execution of Company policies and standards, holding team accountable for store conditions and results.
- Provide Manager-on-Duty (MOD) coverage, maintaining floor leadership, service standards, and operational continuity.
- Lead truck execution processes, ensuring timely unloading, accurate sorting, and efficient flow of merchandise to the sales floor.
- Own workload planning and daily task prioritization, partnering with store leadership to align staffing and execution to business needs.
- Execute and maintain SISO (Store-In-Stock Optimization) routines to drive in-stock levels, replenishment accuracy, and sales readiness.
- Oversee Planogram (POG) execution, ensuring merchandising sets are completed accurately and on schedule.
- Establish and maintain visual merchandising standards, including initial product placement and presentation to company expectations.
- Support a clean, organized, and customer-ready store environment, including backroom organization and sales floor recovery.
- Manage key aspects of inventory control, ensuring product accuracy, integrity, and efficient stock movement.
- Execute ad sets, ensuring promotional signage and product placement are compliant and customer focused.
- Complete price changes accurately and on time, maintaining pricing integrity across the sales floor and systems.
- Oversee Ship from Store fulfillment, ensuring orders are picked, packed, and shipped efficiently and accurately.
- Process RTVs (Return to Vendor) and ASN receiving, ensuring compliance, documentation accuracy, and proper inventory adjustments.
- Manage store damages procedures, ensuring proper handling, reporting, and shrink reduction.
- Train, coach, and develop team members through structured TM onboarding and ongoing skill-building across assigned departments.
- Partner in maintaining strong Asset Protection practices, reducing shrink through awareness, compliance, and safe operations.
- Other Duties As Assigned
- Ability to remain standing for long periods of time
- Ability to move throughout the store
- Regular bending, lifting, carrying, reaching, and stretching
- Ability to lift, carry, push, and pull merchandise and fixtures, up to 25-50 pounds with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Ability to climb ladders or step stools to stock and retrieve products.
- Ability to perform repetitive motions, including scanning items, stocking shelves, and operating POS equipment.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with frequent customer interactions.
- Work hours include nights, weekends and early mornings
- for work environment.
Benefits: The paragraph: "Michaels offers a range of benefits to support team members and their families. Depending on position and eligibility, team members may have access to a 401(k) with employer match, an Employee Assistance Program, medical, dental, and vision coverage, telemedicine services, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, tuition assistance, adoption assistance, and various voluntary insurance options. All team members enjoy everyday perks such as employee discounts and access to partner discount programs. For a summary of benefits, visit the Michaels Benefits at a Glance page. For additional information regarding benefits, visit MIKBenefits.com"
We should preserve all that. Not include the "For a summary..." links? It's part of benefits description; we can keep as prose.
We should not include the EEO statements etc.
Now construct HTML.
We'll output:
About the role
Store - SOUTHERN PINES, NC The Merchandise Manager drives merchandising and operational execution, including truck processing, inventory routines, planogram sets, and visual standards. This role ensures accurate pricing, timely promotional execution, and a customer-ready store environment through strong workload planning and inventory management.
At The Michaels Companies Inc., our purpose is to fuel the joy of creativity and celebration. As the leading destination for creating and celebrating in North America, we operate over 1,300 stores in 49 states and Canada and online at Michaels.com and Michaels.ca. The Michaels Companies, Inc. also owns Artistree, a manufacturer of custom and specialty framing merchandise. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, Michaels is the best place for all things creative. For more information, please visit www.michaels.com.
Responsibilities
Requirements
Minimum Type of Experience Required: 3+ years retail leadership experience.
Benefits
Michaels offers a range of benefits to support team members and their families. Depending on position and eligibility, team members may have access to a 401(k) with employer match, an Employee Assistance Program, medical, dental, and vision coverage, telemedicine services, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, tuition assistance, adoption assistance, and various voluntary insurance options. All team