Job Details

Our client, a leading apparel and sporting goods manufacturing company, is looking for a Senior Merchandiser. This is for an initial duration of 4 months and is located in Beaverton, OR.

Job Type: Contract (Candidates must be able to work on W2 without VISA sponsorship)

Must haves:

• Golf merch experience, someone that can really relate to the sport
• Technical experience (in planning, keeping things organized, etc)
• MS Excel experience

Description:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education, experience and training.
• 4+ 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.

Key Accountabilities include:

• Drive seasonal integration strategies with Marketing, Partner Group and Consumer Merch to deliver against seasonal priorities.
• Delivers a seamless, premium, and effective consumer journey across all doors.
• Partners with Consumer Merch and Integrated account team to ensure the assortment strategy aligns to the consumer demand.

Key Deliverables include:

• Setting seasonal assortment strategy aligned to seasonality and flow of the specific Consumer objectives.
• Alignment with Marketing to ensure launches and edited offers align with key consumer events and strategic product intent.
• Working with cross functional teams to continue to drive business specific assortment strategy across multiple seasons.
• Will oversee both Golf FW and AP merchandising for North America - partnering back with cross functional teams and key accounts to help bring the assortment to life.
• The ability to influence up to global merchandising and product teams will be crucial to success.