Associate Merchant - Fishing
About The Position
As an Associate Merchant, you will support category management through supplier negotiations, purchase order administration, and item setup to ensure accurate product presentation across channels. You will work with cross-functional teams on customer communication programs and search queries, and use data analysis to contribute to budgeting, forecasting, and promotional planning. The role calls for vendor relationship management and business insight to support strategic decisions, organizational goals, integrity, and operational excellence. The Merchandising team develops category strategy using customer insights, market trends, and financial data to optimize assortment and supplier partnerships. It leads supplier negotiations and omnichannel initiatives and works across functions to improve sales, profitability, operational excellence, and customer experience. Responsibilities include supporting merchants with supplier negotiations and purchase orders; resolving supplier issues and facilitating new supplier setup for stores and online channels; executing customer communication and education programs; maintaining accurate product page content; analyzing category performance; contributing to promotional planning; and supporting modular assortment implementation and post-execution analysis.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or 2 years of experience in merchandising, buying, financial planning, operations, or a related area.
- Proven experience in vendor relationship management and supplier negotiations within retail or related sectors.
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret data and generate actionable business insights.
- Proficiency in category strategy development and execution to support merchandising goals.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills for working with merchants, suppliers, and internal teams.
- Ability to accurately manage purchase orders, supplier issue resolution, and item setup processes.
- Familiarity with budgeting, forecasting, and tracking category financial performance.
- Commitment to integrity, compliance, and ethical business practices.
Nice To Haves
- Microsoft Office.
- Negotiating with third-party suppliers.
- Experience in pricing, site merchandising, planning, inventory, or a related area.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or Merchandising.
Responsibilities
- Support merchants in supplier negotiations and manage purchase orders for assigned categories.
- Assist in resolving supplier issues and facilitate the setup of new suppliers for stores and online channels.
- Execute customer communication and education programs in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Ensure product page content is accurate and adheres to taxonomy and search guidelines.
- Analyze category performance data to support budgeting, forecasting, and sales reporting.
- Contribute to feature and promotional planning across stores and online platforms.
- Support modular assortment implementation and post-execution analysis to optimize category presentation.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and performance-based bonus awards.
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k).
- Stock purchase.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off, including sick leave.
- Parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, and voting leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Company discounts.
- Military Leave Pay.
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
- PTO and/or PPTO that may be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
- Live Better U education benefit program, with tuition, books, and fees paid for eligible programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
