Merchandising and Buying Assistant, PT (24 hrs/week)
HybridPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United StatesHybridPart TimeBachelors DegreeMedium
Part TimeBachelors DegreeMedium
Job Summary
Manage visual merchandising standards, process inventory receiving and transfers, and reconcile packing slips with purchase orders and invoices. Support online sales by creating thematic product listings, coordinating photography, and generating copy for Shopify sites. Monitor inventory levels, adjust online quantities, and interpret sales reports to identify products for reorder or repricing. Collaborate with marketing to create social media content and manage promotional discount codes. Create shipping profiles and fulfill online orders while maintaining organized digital file systems.
Required Qualifications
- High School diploma/equivalency with four years' work/volunteer experience
- associate's degree with two years' experience
- bachelor's degree
- Relevant work/volunteer experience in retail, ecommerce, or marketing
- Photo editing experience (must be able to resize, crop, and do light touchup in Photoshop)
- Strong writing skills with excellent grammar, spelling, and English language usage
- Fluency with content management systems and digital file organization (Onedrive, Google Drive, WeTransfer, or Dropbox)
- Proficiency with a variety of social media sites (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Pinterest)
- Microsoft Word and Excel proficiency
- Outlook, Basecamp or comparable project management software proficiency
- Computerized point-of-sale and inventory systems proficiency
- Excellent verbal, telephone, email, and general communication skills
- Clearances: Criminal Background-National
- Ability to occasionally transport up to 35 lbs. of files, equipment or supplies
- Ability to access files, equipment, or supplies
- Extended time on the computer capability
- Clearly communicate in person, by phone, and by video conference
- Communicate with others in conversational and written English
- Hybrid work setting capability (Barnes' Philadelphia campus and remote work)
- Assists with product reorders, receiving, transfers, and tracking
- Assists with reconciling invoices to packing lists and purchase orders
- Monitors inventory levels for items listed online and makes weekly adjustments to online product quantities
- Assists with floor resets and visual merchandising
- Interpreting and maintaining visual merchandising standards
- Creates clean, edited copy consistent with the Foundation's institutional voice
- Coordinates with product photographers to produce finished, edited images
- Creates Shopify product listings following category, sub-category, alt text, and tagging standards
- Maintains updated product photography files
- Maintains roster of perennial and seasonal discount codes
- Interprets sales reports to determine when remerchandising or repricing is necessary
- Creates shipping profiles based on product size, value, and fragility
- Some processing and fulfillment of online orders through the Shop's sites
Desired Qualifications
- Retail experience
- Sales and/or inventory processing experience
- Online retail merchant experience (E-bay, Amazon, Etsy, Poshmark, or Depop seller account experience)
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