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