Associate Category Merchant USR
$31,200,000–$37,440,000 year
On-siteFramingham, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Develop understanding of customer needs and shopping behavior across stores and ecommerce channels while executing omnichannel category strategies that drive business. Negotiate with vendors for lower total delivered cost, volume incentives, rebates, and advertising allowances. Merchandise assigned category portfolio to ensure service levels with minimum inventory investment and maximum gross margin. Review and approve financial and item forecasts with Planners, interpreting Circana Market share data and other financial metrics to understand current and future trends. Monitor and analyze omnichannel sales, margin, traffic, conversion, average order value, online availability, and item-level performance to identify growth opportunities. Lead and coach the Merchandise Specialist on both retail and Dotcom execution, including item setup, content accuracy, promotional execution, vendor follow-up, and performance tracking.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- Minimum of 3 years of total experience in buying related functions, including Buying-Merchandising, Planning, and Inventory Management
- General knowledge of industry trends, assortment planning, Planograms, customer buying patterns, inventory management, logistics and marketing techniques
- Knowledge and understanding of financial analysis and forecasting
- Negotiation skills
- Influencing skills
- verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to use performance data and customer insights to support merchandising decisions and identify opportunities to improve sales, margin, and customer experience across channels
- Intermediate to advance Microsoft and Excel skills
- Ability to drive sales and margin results
- Ability to build partnerships
- Experience working in omnichannel environment
- Strong attention to detail in managing item setup, product content, imagery, attribution, pricing accuracy, and online promotional execution
- Ability to evaluate competitive assortments, identify whitespace, and recommend opportunities to improve customer experience and category growth
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