Job Description
Our client, a leading apparel and sporting goods manufacturing company, is looking for a Senior Merchandiser. This is for an initial duration of 4 months and is located in Beaverton, OR.
Job Type: Contract (Candidates must be able to work on W2 without VISA sponsorship)
Must haves:
- Golf merch experience, someone that can really relate to the sport
- Technical experience (in planning, keeping things organized, etc)
- MS Excel experience
Description:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education, experience and training.
- 4+ years' experience in Footwear, Apparel, Equipment, or relevant consumer product merchandising, product creation and/or retail in a vertical, multi-brand or digital environment.
- Strong command of common retail and/or digital metrics such as sell-through, margin, full price realization, weeks of supply, etc.
- Proven ability to translate consumer, sales, trend, and marketplace insights into in-season and long-term breakthrough strategies.
- Preparing seasonal tools to equip your marketplace partners with an understanding of seasonal priorities.
- Experience developing strong working relationships with teammates and cross-functional partners.
- Great teammate and contributor, with an attitude and excitement to learn new things.
- Strong communication skills and comfort navigating a cross-functional matrix with an emphasis on influencing skills.
- Attention to detail, understanding the importance of consistency.
Key Accountabilities include:
- Drive seasonal integration strategies with Marketing, Partner Group and Consumer Merch to deliver against seasonal priorities.
- Delivers a seamless, premium, and effective consumer journey across all doors.
- Partners with Consumer Merch and Integrated account team to ensure the assortment strategy aligns to the consumer demand.
Key Deliverables include:
- Setting seasonal assortment strategy aligned to seasonality and flow of the specific Consumer objectives.
- Alignment with Marketing to ensure launches and edited offers align with key consumer events and strategic product intent.
- Working with cross functional teams to continue to drive business specific assortment strategy across multiple seasons.
- Will oversee both Golf FW and AP merchandising for North America - partnering back with cross functional teams and key accounts to help bring the assortment to life.
- The ability to influence up to global merchandising and product teams will be crucial to success.
Job Tags
Contract work, Seasonal work, Visa sponsorship, Work visa,