Digital Merchandising 3

Job Title: Digital Merchandising 3
Location: Beaverton, OR (hybrid)
Duration: 08+ Months

This role is located in Beaverton, OR, but works within the Asia Pacific and Latin America geography, whose main goal is to represent and serve the voice of the consumers who inhabit six major markets in this region (Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and India, Australia & New Zealand, Mexico, and Central and South America).

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

For merchants, everything begins and ends with the consumer! The Merchandising team understands consumer needs and market opportunities to craft a significant product mix for each marketplace. We blend art with science to bring our vision to life in all retail environments, leading with our Members and our Direct digital and physical spaces and expanding to our retail partners. The team has the unrivaled ability to see beyond trends and identify new market opportunities, delivering the right product, at the right price, in the right place, at the right time.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

As a Digital Merchandising 3 on the APLA Sportwear Footwear Merchandising team, you'll utilize marketplace data, consumer insights, foresight, and hindsight to make decisions, influence, and develop seasonal plans to serve our consumer. You'll provide qualitative and quantitative insights to the Consumer Merchandising teams, the counterparts of Global Merchandising teams across Sports and gender constructs. Youll lead the management of our merchandising KPIs through robust analysis of retail insights and performance. You'll build positive and trustworthy relationships with your partners (including our Direct Merchants, Marketing, Consumer Planning, and Territory Merchants, among others) to build and land assortments that meet the needs of consumers, take them to a new place, and differentiate the key points of distribution across key cities. Youll work with your cross-functional team to maintain the optimal balance between a pull and push market.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will work closely with fellow merchants and cross-functional teams within Global, Geo, and Territory Merchandising, Planning, Allocation, and Brand Marketing. We also work with finance, operations, and the insights/analytics teams; relying on business reporting for your area, which includes quantitative and qualitative metrics on sales, inventory, and consumer behaviors.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 5+ years of experience in merchandising, product creation, and retail, in a vertical or wholesale environment
• Past experience in apparel or footwear merchandising is preferred
• Footwear, apparel, and/or equipment merchandising experience
• Understanding of retails key performance indicators and profit-based metrics
• Strong strategy-building skills that shape the future of the business
• Effective communicator who collaborates and brings people together
• Values differences and builds strong relationships with high cultural awareness
• Proven balance of art and science in decision-making
• Self-directed, independent, and dedicated
• Cultivates innovation while also ensuring accountability
• Attention to detail and understanding the importance of consistency
• Communicates vision and purpose and is able to lead effectively in complex situations
• Solves problems using limited information and implements solutions with the ability to foresee most future implications
• Advises others on complex matters requiring in-depth knowledge or conceptual thinking
• Responds with speed and agility, curiosity, and motivation
• Proficiency in Excel, and PowerPoint/Keynote

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