Sr Director, Digital

Tractor Supply Company

$130K — $180K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in a retail environment with a focus on Merchandising, eCommerce, or Strategy.
  • 5+ years of leadership experience managing direct reports.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field; MBA preferred.
  • Proven leadership role in e-commerce or retail settings.
  • Strong understanding of merchandising, product/UX, and digital marketing.

Responsibilities

  • Manage sales and margin for digital channels, targeting $500M+ sales plan.
  • Analyze business performance and prioritize initiatives for growth.
  • Identify assortment expansion opportunities using analytical tools and market data.
  • Ensure pricing competitiveness using intelligence and automated pricing algorithms.
  • Enhance site functionality to align with category strategies and customer needs.
  • Collaborate with vendors to create strong online content for products and campaigns.
  • Influence product and UX teams to implement new digital features that support sales goals.
  • Work with marketing to drive qualified traffic to digital properties.

Benefits

  • Join a leading company in the retail sector with extensive growth potential.
  • Work closely with a diverse range of teams, enhancing cross-functional collaboration.
  • Creative freedom to redefine processes and find innovative solutions.
  • Day-to-day mentorship and development opportunities within the leadership team.
  • Impactful role in shaping a best-in-class shopping experience for customers.
Full Job Description
Overall Job Summary

This role will have a robust understanding of the digital business, will leverage analytics and data to identify and prioritize initiatives to drive performance, and ultimately drive accountability of directly managed and cross functional teams to evolve Tractor Supply's digital business into a best-in-class shopping experience for our customers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (Min 5%)

  • Responsible for sales and margin for all digital channels for the hardlines merchandising divisions ($500M+ sales plan)
  • Lead the process of reviewing business performance, diagnosing drivers, and prioritizing work across multiple dimensions to grow sales and margin
  • Leverage advanced analytical tools, outside data, and merchandising strategies to Identify and prioritize assortment expansion opportunities
  • Leverage competitive price intelligence and automated pricing algorithms to ensure price leadership, while delivering on margin targets
  • Leverage existing site functionality (homepage, landing pages, product recs, etc.) to deliver category strategies, ensure seasonal relevance, and help customers find items that meet their needs
  • Work closely with vendor partners to ensure strong online content for items and campaigns
  • Identify opportunities and influence product/UX teams to deliver new sitewide and category specific digital functionality needed to deliver on sales plans
  • Improve site content and partner closely with marketing to identify opportunities to drive more qualified traffic (paid media, owned channels, earned channels/SEO) to digital properties
  • Serve as a member of the Digital leadership team, helping educate and advocate for the role of Digital in our business, and to enable a more seamless customer journey across our properties
  • Work with the Digital leadership team to help define and prioritize our med-long term business strategy to ensure 2x growth over the next 5 years
  • Provide day to day management, strategic direction, mentorship, and development for a direct reporting team


Required Qualifications

Experience: 10+ years of demonstrated success in a retail environment, with at least one of these areas: Merchandising, eCommerce, Strategy. 5+ years leadership experience managing teams of direct reports

Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. MBA preferred. Any suitable combination of education and experience will be considered.

Professional Certifications: None

Preferred knowledge, skills or abilities

  • Proven experience in a leadership role in e-commerce or retail.
  • Demonstrated understanding of merchandising, site merchandising, product/UX, and digital marketing; and how to leverage these decision domain areas to drive results
  • Past experience and success in redefining processes, ways of working, and creative solutions that drive a step change in performance of teams
  • Experience managing teams, coaching for development, and building inclusive and empowered teams
  • Demonstrated success in past roles of influencing decision making, prioritization, and accountability of cross functional teams that do not report in directly
  • Ability to analyze data and financial reports to make informed business decisions


Working Conditions
  • Normal office working conditions


Physical Requirements
  • Sitting
  • Standing (not walking)
  • Walking
  • Lifting up to 50 pounds


Disclaimer

This job description represents an overview of the responsibilities for the above referenced position. It is not intended to represent a comprehensive list of responsibilities. A team member should perform all duties as assigned by his/ her supervisor.

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