AVP, Store Operations - Engineering, Construction and Facilities

At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer. 

Job Description:

Job Summary

Leads and manages all Construction, Facilities, Safety, Supplies, Sustainability and Engineering within Store Operations area. Collaborates with Field Leadership to develop and implement Store Operations standards/programs, operational metrics, and goals. Collaborates with Field Leadership on new store builds, remodels, and capital improvement projects. Provides strategic guidance and vision to support assigned areas and/or initiatives. Provides leadership guidance and support to help coach, train and develop the Home Office Store Operations Associates and Field. Acts as a primary liaison between various Home Office Departments and the Stores Organization.

Major Areas of Responsibility:

• Collaborates with key stakeholders on the selection, timing, operational design and delivery of all new stores, relocations, remodels, and capital improvement projects
• Ensures all projects are delivered on budget and to plan        
• Leads engineering, process improvement and sales driving initiatives that improve store performance, yield cost efficiencies, and improve sales and profit.
• Oversees creation and maintenance of labor standards in partnership with Finance COE to support payroll drivers
• Manages and maintains database of key statistical data, store specifications, key dates to provide timely requests/analytics for requested store details.
• Oversees store supply needs and collaborates with internal stakeholders and third-party vendors on supply categories and inventories. Identifies, tests and updates supply inventories based on expense, quality control, and changing business needs.
• Oversees the relationship with internal partners and leads our store support team on all store facility related issues. Works closely with Construction, Property Development, Facilities, and Energy Services to ensure all stores are operating as expected and fully functional.  Acts as a point of escalation for critical incidents.
• Partners with TJX Environmental Health and Safety, sister brands and field teams to support safety programs, conduct root cause analysis on incidents and reduce incidents
• Partners with TJX Corporate Sustainability and leads Homegoods|Homesense reduce, reuse, and recycle programs. Provides divisional reporting and statistics for Corporate Sustainability goals.
• Sources, hires, develops, and leads a team of professionals that execute applicable roles and job responsibilities to support the Store teams

Job Impact

Specify the number of direct and indirect associates reporting to this job.

                                                                Direct                                                    Indirect

Exempt                                                2-3                                                          8-10

Non-Exempt                                      0                                                              0

Decision Making

Describe the kinds of decisions made by the incumbent (e.g., hire/fire, technical decisions, markdowns, merchandise pricing/selection). Also, specify what recommendations are referred to the next level of management or others for approval:

Hire/Counsel/Fire

Recommend:

Store layout requirements

Operation programs and process changes

Labor Standards

Sustainability initiatives

Decisions:

All day-to-day operational decisions needed to manage the business and drive results

Job Knowledge

Minimum formal education, if any, required to perform this job e.g., Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Law Degree):
Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering or Business, Field related or equivalent experience.

Minimum job skills required to perform this job (for example: programming languages, strong interpersonal skills, computer software packages):
Engineer skillset

Analytical skills
Business knowledge
Supervisory and coaching skills
Verbal and written communication skills
Organizational skills

Knowledge of In-store construction and facilities needs
Knowledge of Merchandising & Operations
Multi-store or Operations experience

Minimum experience required to perform this job:
7-10 years retail experience with 3-5 years of store management experience and 2-5 years in multi-store management.

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