Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Analyze, research, and support retail assortment and category reviews.
- Coordinate promotional plans to drive gross profit, average basket, and increased sales per sq. ft. with key business leaders and stakeholders.
- Responsible for refining and executing promotional plans including direct mail, digital, social, and in-store marketing.
- Determine impacts of pricing, various promotions, store placement, off-shelf merchandising, and new product launches as it relates to the product category performance.
- Analyze business trends to make strategic business recommendations to drive growth
- Research and understand customer and market trends as it relates to optimizing category performance to make strategic business recommendations.
- Assist Merchant team and Space Planning Department in roll out of new programs.
- Collaborate with product development, brand, and packaging teams as well as with business partners within the Inventory Department for sales and promotional planning.
- Ability to evaluate and build business plans as it relates to marketing, pricing, product development and product merchandising.
- Participate and track transition process across all relative departments.
- Develop, analyze, and draw conclusions and make recommendations to management team for process improvement opportunities, ideas to increase sales, and other ways to improve the business and organization.
- Exercise judgment to prioritize and communicate to meet and exceed project deadlines and commitments.
- Ability to multitask and direct multiple projects simultaneously.
- Juggles competing deadlines and objectives.
- Identify critical tasks and makes decisions on appropriate prioritization.
- Comfortable presenting to business leaders and management.
- Strong attention to detail.
Scope
- Staff supervision and development –No
- Decision Making – Provides data for decision support
- Travel –5-10%
- Location – Remote | Anywhere
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business or a related field required
- Minimum 2 years of experience in product merchandising or product management, retail, or other job related experience
- Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Physical Requirements
General office environment requiring ability to:
- stand, walk, sit for extended periods of time
- speak and listen to others in person and over the phone
- use keyboard and read from computer screen and reports
- lift up to 15 lbs
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