Assistant Merchant
About The Position
The Assistant Merchant provides administrative and operational support to a Merchant or Senior Merchant to ensure accurate product execution and assortment management within assigned categories. This role partners closely with cross functional teams to maintain assortment integrity across both in-season and future-season assortments. Responsibilities include supporting item setup, maintaining assortment and pricing data, assisting with promotional execution, and ensuring accuracy across merchandising systems and product documentation. The Assistant Merchant plays a critical role in supporting the day-to-day operational needs of the category, helping ensure the merchandising team can execute assortments efficiently and accurately
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in related field
- Equivalent work experience will be considereddf
- 1+ Years of experience
- 1+ years of demonstrated experience using excel for basic (retail) math
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy across all business-critical data
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to effectively time manage
- Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in AX, Direct Tech, Blue Yonder, D365, Centric-PLM preferred but not required.
Responsibilities
- Maintain accuracy of the assortment planning tools, including styles, colors, retails, costs, and product flow with direction from merchant
- Own print and media proofing for categories of responsibility
- Observe and learn in all category meetings
- Initiate and perform additional ad hoc reports as required
- Responsible for loading and maintaining all updates made throughout the season, in all systems (AX, D365, MAPS)
- Manage MSRP and standard cost of goods documents, complying to SOX standards
- Accountable for weekly email pricing and promotion documents, with guidance from merchant
- Develop effective, collaborative cross functional partnerships
- Schedule meetings and follow up for the team
- Adopt organizations values in personal work behaviors, decision making, contributions and interpersonal interactions.
- Participates in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.
- Contribute to a positive work environment by demonstrating cultural expectations and influencing others to reward performance and value "can do" people, accountability, diversity, equity, and inclusion, flexibility, continuous improvement, collaboration, creativity and fun.
Benefits
- Multiple Medical plan options
- Dental & Vision plans
- Medical and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Account including company contributions
- Company paid Life Insurance and AD&D
- Company paid Short-Term Disability
- Other various voluntary benefits including: Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Long-Term Disability and Supplemental Life Insurance
- 401(k) Employer Match
- Parental Leave
- Paid holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day
- Generous Paid Time Off plan
- Daily pay available
- 40% Employee Discount
- Flexible Fridays
- Onsite fitness center
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
