Summary Serves as the Commissary Management Specialist (Merchandising) to the category manager and other team members and identifies opportunities that deliver category growth through insight-based recommendations to ensure patron savings. The position requires high energy, assertive leadership skills, and aptitude to resolve complex problems, understand market dynamics, and employ strong decision-making skills. Read the entire announcement before starting the application process. Responsibilities Position responsibilities include: Serve as the category expert consultant by identifying category best practices. Initiate and synchronize brand strategies/ priorities with patron strategies for a win-win outcome. Perform analyses of data and processes and perform data gathering and identification of potential data. Use analysis to develop trends, recommend solutions and provide data to Agency management as well as to a variety of government and private organizations. Determine the baseline cost associated with DeCA's overall category performance program. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications You must meet qualifications and requirements by the announcement closing date. Your resume must clearly show that you meet the qualifications (i.e., specialized experience) for the grade level. At the GS-13 grade level, you can meet minimum qualifications only through having the required specialized experience. Specialized experience is demonstrated knowledge of retail procurement and distribution methods; principles, procedures, and techniques of retail food merchandising and retail food store management, and developments in commercial retail food store items, equipment, and practices. Examples of creditable qualifying specialized experience include: Managing a commissary store, supermarket, or similar type of commercial retail food store. Managing a department in a retail food store. Planning, standardizing, or controlling operations in an assigned group of retail food stores. Developing, interpreting, or applying policies, procedures, and operating standards for use in a retail food store. Providing technical advice on merchandising and operational matters pertaining to grocery, meats, and produce supplies, as well as front-end operations. Working in the retail grocery/supermarket environment (i.e., retailer, manufacturer, supplier, broker, headquarters, region, and field) in support of category management processes, commercial retail food merchandising, and retail food management practices. Providing input to the development and execution of a retail grocery category management and review program to include category, consumer, and sales analysis, market research, identification and use of category and retail best practices. Developing retail grocery category presentations, recommendations for new item introductions, promotional activity, product positioning, and planogram reviews. Supporting a retail grocery category management program through the application of the most recent sales technologies including shelf planning and management, syndicated data, category analyzer, point of sale, and scanning data applications, with emphasis on fact-based selling. Establishing strong, multi-level working relationships with assigned business team members. You will receive credit for all relevant qualifying experience (paid and unpaid), including volunteer work done through National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Qualifications One year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-12 grade level. As part of the online application process, you will respond to a series of questions designed to evaluate your possession of these competencies: Category Management Communication Merchandising Overtime: Occasional Bargaining Unit Status: Not covered Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt Obligated Position: If obligated, you occupying the position is subject to the former incumbent returning. If the former incumbent does not return to the position, your occupancy may become permanent. Tentative job offers identify if the position you are offered is obligated. Those retired under CSRS or FERS considered: No. DoD criteria not met. Recruitment/Relocation Incentives Offered: None Education For this grade level, you must meet the qualification requirement through experience alone. You may not use education to qualify. Additional Information Executive Order 12564 requires a federal workplace to be free of illegal drugs and prohibits the use of illegal drugs both on and off duty by federal employees. As a reminder, marijuana is still classified as an illegal drug by the Federal government and is prohibited for use by Federal employees even if such use is legal in the state where the Federal employee resides and/or works. The Defense Commissary Agency is a Drug-Free Federal Workplace where the use of illegal drugs will not be tolerated and may result in penalties up to and including removal from Federal service. Applicants with financial difficulty are not automatically removed from consideration. Selectees are required to complete an online onboarding process. PCS is authorized. If you PCS'd at government expense within the past 12 months, additional government funded PCS may not be authorized; however, you may choose to pay your own moving expenses. Most civilian PCS entitlements are now taxable. The Relocation Income Tax Allowance (RITA) reimburses eligible employees for additional Federal, State, and local income taxes incurred because of receiving taxable travel income. More information is available at Civilian Relocation/PCS Tax Changes. Must complete the certification program for Category Management Professionals within 18 months of appointment of this position, and must be maintain throughout appointment. Additional vacancies may be filled from this announcement up to 90 days after the closing date. The following may result in a rating of ineligible. Ineligible applicants receive no consideration. Submitting an incomplete application package may result in your not being considered for this position. Your resume must reflect that you are either Part-Time with the number of hours listed, Full Time, or 40 hours per week as your work schedule. If you fail to provide this information in your resume, your resume will be considered as incomplete. Submitting encrypted documents or uploading Adobe portfolio documents. Submitting any document that contains a photo or image of you. Including social media links, inappropriate material/content, classified or government sensitive information, or personal information such as age, gender, race, religion, or social security number on your resume. Overstating your qualifications and/or experience in your application materials or questionnaire responses. Deliberately attempting to falsify your application information, such as copying portions of this announcement into your resume.