• Be the operational leader for a highly motivated, highly capable team of managers and individual contributors: keep work running smoothly, protect morale, and learn and add to a team culture that is already strong.
• Drive key projects: stay close to the work and personally drive the team's largest, most complex projects, including timelines, dependencies, and cross-team communication.
• Know every team process end to end. Lead the creation, maintenance, and centralization of SOPs and shared resources; drive consistent practices, training, quality assurance, and continuous improvement across category teams.
• Collaborate with partner teams (e.g., Supplier Implementation, Product, Customer Success) so handoffs and shared processes run smoothly.
• Be a Merch advocate: make the team's work understandable and visible across the company.
• Run bandwidth and capacity planning; flag risks early and rebalance coverage.
• Define and report on team metrics (ticket throughput, SLAs, SKU work, rollout milestones).
• Own escalations as needed, partnering effectively with people at all levels across the organization.
• Support recruiting as needed, own onboarding for new merchants, and maintain continuity coverage for every category.