VP, Divisional Merchandise Manager, Kid's Foot Locker Job Location(s) US-FL-St. Petersburg Position Type Regular Full-Time FLSA Status Exempt Job ID 2025-60682 Category Buying & Planning Overview

This role is based in the Tampa-St. Pete market, based at our St. Petersburgh, FL office (Hybrid)

 

The VP, Divisional Merchandising Manager (DMM) plays a critical leadership role on the Kid's Foot Locker team. The position requires an entrepreneurial mix of strategy development and vision, deep financial business acumen, strong experience across merchandising functions, consumer-focus, and the ability to lead a large team.

 

In this role you will oversee buying and cross-functional teams in creating a consumer-focused product strategy and ensuring executional excellence to serve consumers the best in sneaker culture, while maximizing sales and profit and support the Company’s LaceUp Strategy and creates value for all Stakeholders through Expanding Sneaker Culture, Powering Up the Portfolio, Deepening Relationships with Customers and being Best-in-Class Omni.

Responsibilities

Strategy Development & Execution

-Build consumer preference for Foot Locker by creating a product vision in short, mid and long-term merchandising strategies to deliver the company’s financial targets, drive market leadership, and build consumer preference.
-Led pre-season and in-season merchandising vision and strategy, ensuring teams are executing at a high-level to deliver plans.
-Innovate and drive best practices to create a world-class buying function that supports the company’s broader goals of growth and profitability.
-Create long-range vendor plans, partnering with vendors to fulfill the vision.
-Partner with Planning & Allocation teams to lead the merchandise planning process, creating 3-year, annual, and seasonal plans, best practices, and ways of work that drive financial results and best serve consumers.
-Ensure teams are thoughtfully managing product lifecycles, from trend identification through profitable scaling.
-Utilize deep financial business acumen to ensure teams are executing at a high level, pivoting when needed, and constantly challenging themselves to exceed consumer and company expectations.

 

Vendor Relationships

-Build deep relationships and trust with vendor community, creating competitive advantage through marketplace leadership and ensuring favorable reputation in the industry.
-Negotiate with vendors on quantity, delivery deadlines, and price, to maximize profits and surpass goals.

 

Marketplace Distinction

-With a keen eye for trends and strong understanding of the consumer, lead buying team to define the product assortment, identify new trends and brands, and create competitive advantage by leading the market with a product offering that validates our position as the best in sneaker culture.
-Identify white space and create a vision for growth.

 

Consumer-Focus

-Leverage insights, data, and research to feed a curiosity about the consumer and utilize these insights to build merchandising strategies and plans.
-Partner with the Marketing team to develop program ideas that are grounded in product buys which drive consumer excitement and sell through. Lead the buying team in the identification of opportunities to tell exciting and commercially relevant product stories across channels. Ensure close collaboration of teams throughout the --Go To Market process to execute the vision.
-Partner with Visual Merchandising and Ecommerce teams to ensure product vision comes to life in the optimal way to excite consumer and drive results in both stores and online.

 

People Development & Leadership

-Proven leadership experience in building the capability of the team by developing individuals that can meet current and future objectives, building a talent bench and succession, and fostering strong engagement.
-Provide honest, objective feedback of individual team member’s strengths and weaknesses, and identify training and on-the-job opportunities for growth and professional development. Lead the department’s annual performance review and succession processes.
-Create an environment where team members feel empowered to take calculated risks and bold bets, learning from mistakes and continually challenging themselves to do more.

Qualifications Minimum of 10 years of experience in a specialty retail environment (Footwear preferred).Bachelor’s degree in business administration, fashion merchandising, marketing or equivalency required.Career history that combines progressive buying and merchandising roles.Strong partnership skills, with experience working closely with top national brands.Demonstrated track record of creating merchandising strategy, motivating teams, and achieving results through cross-functional collaboration and functional excellence.Demonstrated ability to “raise the bar” in terms of performance and revenue growth, within a fast-paced environment.Proven influencing and negotiating skills both internally and externally.Proven ability to capitalize on trends, meet the needs of consumers through superior product assortments, along with deep financial acumen to drive business results.Excellent organizational, communication, and critical thinking skills.Demonstrated strength in building, coaching, and developing high-performing teams.

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Benefits

The base salary range is $190000 - $240000 / year. This range represents the anticipated low and high end of the salary for this position. This role is also eligible to receive short and long term incentives that align with individual and company performance. Salary will be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. Salary is one component of the Foot Locker, Inc. total compensation package, which includes the below. 

 

Foot Locker Benefits:

Employee Discount
Paid Time Off
Medical | Dental | Vision Coverage
401(k) | Roth 401(k)
Stock Purchase Plan
Life Insurance
Flexible Spending Account
Opportunities for Advancement
Tuition Reimbursement for Qualified Courses
Strong Company Culture
Employee Resource Groups

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