Location: Beaverton, Oregon
Job Type: Contract
Compensation Range: $28 - 31 per hour
The Kids Sportwear Merchandising team is looking for a Senior Merchant who is ready to leverage their skills and experience in style intuition and balance this with a key Classification management. We are looking for an optimistic, curious, style-oriented, analytic, trend savvy Merchant, ideally with retail, MPU and/or Geo experience, that has an awareness and understanding of the consumer and the marketplace's ever changing dynamics.
This role will leverage their skills in collaboration through multi-faceted partnerships with multiple functions within merchandising across the consumer sport groups. Strategic visioning, consumer expertise, and the ability to span across multiple seasons paired with influencing a point of view will be critical for this role.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
We are looking for a consumerist with an affinity for product who enjoys the energy of moving at the pace of retail and our consumer. A successful Senior Merchant will contribute to an inclusive, positive, and progressive team dynamic. It's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
This candidate should possess an understanding of the consumer and marketplace landscapes. The candidate should also have a solid retail acumen and analytical skills.
Responsibilities:
- You will build consumer-centric assortment plans with an understanding of the full marketplace, blending fact-based and intuitive inputs.
- You will participate in seasonal reviews & assortment building in partnership with marketplace account-focused merchants.
- You will balance multiple seasons. Your insights will contribute to future season plans and adoption by supporting Sport Merchandising Leadership and upstream partnership within Global Merchandising.
- You will manage your areas of assortment planning in depth during the seasonal process and gather consumer trends and marketplace insights from in-market seasons.
- With regularity, you will be balancing your interactions and covering the business needs of the Geo Merchandising teams.
- Global Demand Planning and Global Product & Design will also be valuable partners for you in bringing business science to life.
- It is also imperative that you develop strong relationships with your teammates within the Kids merchandising across Sportswear and Sport Performance in enabling the broader Kids assortment strategy to life.
- A consistent part of your day-to-day responsibilities will be to continuously manage and maintain in seasonal tools and assortments as well as long term strategic line planning that empower Geographies execution.
- This includes the development and maintenance of key relationships among cross-functional teammates.
- Lastly, driving a clear and concise communication will also be a foundational requirement.
Who you will work with:
- As Senior Merchandising Manager, this person will report directly to the Director of Merchandising Kids Apparel or Sportswear offense.
- You will work closely with fellow merchants and cross-functional teams within global and geo merchandising; Product, Planning, and Brand Marketing. We also work with Finance and the insights/analytics teams; relying on business reporting for your area which includes quantitative and qualitative metrics on sales, inventory and consumer behaviors.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher, or combination of relevant education, experience, and training.
- 4+ years experience in Apparel 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.
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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Cella by randstad digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
