Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

THE PURPOSE: The Assistant Merchant will support the Associate Merchant and Senior Merchant in all aspects of the dtc business. This includes but not limited to all aspects of sample management, weekly business meetings, all sample hand off functions to cross functional teams, updates and uploads in full circle as well as buys. The Assistant Merchant will maintain strong relationships with cross functional partners to ensure deliveries and deadlines are met.

THE ROLE (what you are accountable for)

• Assist with weekly business meetings and able to speak to product that is selling and not selling
• Speaks up to missing opportunities in the business
• Pulls and sends out quarterly sales analysis reports
• Sends out best and worst seller reports to company and able to speak to product if questions are asked
• Manages weekly TOP sample hand offs to the studio team and tracks any late TOP samples with production
• Communicates with the studio team constantly to make sure all product is shot and noted in the shot list
• Organizes all go back samples from studio shoots weekly
• Pulls and ships samples as needed for meetings and/or wholesale teams
• Assists in the buy process with the Associate and Senior Merchant
• Manages seasonal sample racks by category
• Set up and organize samples for buy meetings and buy prep meetings. You’re the point person for samples
• Sends out weekly hand off recaps to cross functional teams
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure all product strategies are carried out, executed against, and key financial targets are being achieved.
• with site merchants to make sure product is visually shown correctly on the website
• Goes to monthly floorset meetings on store site
• Works with site merch team to make sure product is live, merched appropriately, and product launches are on time

YOU ARE

• A motivated and confident individual that readily takes on responsibility. 
• An organized individual
• Someone who wants to learn and grow professionally
• Able to identify challenges and opportunities, provide solutions, and see things through to the end.
• A clear and direct communicator, while being respectful and positive.

REQUIRED MINIMUM EXPERIENCE

• Retail math knowledge
• Excel knowledge
• Strong organizational / project management/time management skills along with excellent oral and written communication ability

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Women’s merchandising
• Men's Merchandising

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