Merchandising Specialist - 24 Seven Talent : Job Details

24 Seven is partnering with a top global sportswear client to help them find a Merchandising Specialist for this onsite position in Boston, MA. This is a 2 month contract with likelihood to extend. While on contract, you'd be eligible for benefits including medical, dental, and vision.

Ideal Candidate: will have at least 2 years of relevant experience with merchandise and seasonal planning expertise as well as is skilled in Excel and Zoom.

Job Description:

• Drive seasonal operational excellence working cross-functionally within and outside of merchandising, planning, commercial to provide structure and support for the GPM Merchandising team in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrate the ability to multitask working through multiple seasonal deliverables to organize the team for a successful and efficient delivery of seasonal game plan deliverable.
• Ensure processes are defined, efficient, and aligned to seasonal key dates and deliverables of the Merchandising team to cross functional partners.
• Lead and drive process excellence, meeting management and cross functional communication to provide Merchandising team with tools needed to deliver consumer right assortments and line architecture.
• Build and maintain seasonal end to end merchandising game plans
• Lead and drive development of merchandising tools to enable merchants to create seasonal product assortments built on consumer and business insights
• Build and maintain master line list, marketplace segmentation, pricing, assortment tiering, style buy readiness and sku management tools
• Coordinate seasonal sample sets, CTM samples and support for product wall walks and setups.
• Lead and drive regional carryover process across business units.
• Act as the main point of contact for all product related topics with Global Product Ops team and internal operations teams.
• Support Apparel operations process and toolkits (L4L sample management, buy consolidation, upcharge review)
• Provide seasonal trend information to support sell in process.
• Organize internal BOX folders to ensure seasonal files are maintained in an organized manner

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of relevant working experience
• Merchandise planning, seasonal planning
• Excel, Zoom
• History of partnering across teams