Digital Merchandising 3

Position Title: Marketing - Digital Merchandising 3
Location: Beaverton, OR (traditional hybrid model with some Fridays remote)
Position Type: Contract, 05 months, extendable

Job Details:
A successful Lead Merchant will contribute to an inclusive, positive, and progressive team dynamic. At ***, its 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 possess solid retail acumen and analytical skills, and an understanding of retail environments.
At times working autonomously, agile, and solution-oriented, this role is responsible for driving the consumer product offering across the different merchandising dimensions. They will also influence the product offering End to End (from insights to adoption) as well as focusing on multi-season management of Client's most innovative franchises!

• Bachelor's degree or higher, or combination of relevant education, experience, and training
• 5+ 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.

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; you will partner with Marketplace and Territory Merchandising for key insights and partner upstream with Global Merchandising to inform future line plans. 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.