Division Merchandise Manager - San Diego or Park City

Event Network•San Diego, CA

25d•$120,000

About The Position

Event Network is seeking a Division Merchandise Manager to lead enterprise category strategy for the Convenience & Packaged Food category across assigned divisions. The role uses the organization’s scale, market intelligence, and buying power to improve cost of goods, strengthen vendor partnerships, and develop product opportunities while preserving the relevance and differentiation of each business unit. The position combines merchandising, negotiation, and people leadership. The manager will develop Buyers, build strategic vendor relationships, monitor market and manufacturing innovation, and partner with General Merchandise Managers (GMMs) and the Creative Center of Excellence to translate business needs into differentiated, commercially compelling products. The preferred locations are San Diego, California, or Park City, Utah; remote work may be considered for the right candidate. The successful candidate is curious, generous, creative, commercially courageous, and accountable. They bring strong product instinct, rigorous financial thinking, enterprise-wide perspective, and a commitment to developing people and category expertise. The role requires creating polished presentations, managing multiple projects and deadlines, analyzing business and sales data, and traveling as needed to markets, trade shows, vendor showrooms, factories, stores, and other business activities.

Requirements

Proficiency creating polished presentations in Canva and PowerPoint to communicate product strategies, assortments, financial insights, and recommendations.
Strong project-management skills, including organizing priorities, managing timelines, tracking dependencies, and advancing multiple initiatives.
Proficiency with Monday.com or similar project-management platforms, including maintaining project status, ownership, milestones, and deliverables.
Advanced Excel skills, including building reports, maintaining data, analyzing performance, identifying trends, and translating findings into recommendations.
Ability to interpret business and sales data, evaluate product performance, and apply insights to category, purchasing, and assortment decisions.
Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, vendor relationships, and product initiatives simultaneously.
Physical ability to frequently sit, stand, walk, and handle products and samples; occasionally reach, climb, stoop, kneel, crouch, or lift and move merchandise samples and materials.

Nice To Haves

Located in San Diego, California, or Park City, Utah; remote work may be considered for the right individual.

Responsibilities

Develop category strategies that improve product, cost, quality, terms, and scalability.
Use enterprise spend, volume, and vendor intelligence to identify leverage and opportunities beyond a single business unit.
Drive improvement through sourcing, negotiation, product engineering, volume leverage, vendor consolidation, and alternative solutions.
Balance value, quality, speed, innovation, and business-unit needs, and challenge fragmented or legacy approaches when stronger enterprise solutions exist.
Lead significant negotiations and establish commercial relationships that create sustainable value.
Negotiate cost, terms, minimums, lead times, quality expectations, and vendor capabilities.
Build a strong supplier network, evaluate competitive alternatives, and create access to innovation, flexibility, and long-term opportunity.
Set clear vendor performance expectations and coach Buyers to manage vendor relationships effectively.
Monitor product, consumer, category, and marketplace trends, and seek emerging vendors, brands, materials, manufacturing techniques, formats, and capabilities.
Partner with GMMs to connect business-unit needs to category and sourcing solutions, surface enterprise opportunities early, and collaborate with the Creative Center of Excellence on proprietary and custom products.
Develop a high-performing team of Buyers with category expertise, merchant judgment, financial fluency, negotiation skill, and strong execution.
Set expectations for discovery, sourcing, vendor management, product development, performance, timelines, and collaboration.
Create accountability while giving Buyers the context and authority to make sound decisions.
Develop proactive, succession-ready talent that continuously improves product quality and value.
Create presentations communicating product strategies, assortments, financial insights, and recommendations.
Organize priorities, manage timelines and dependencies, and move multiple initiatives forward.
Maintain project status, ownership, milestones, and deliverables using Monday.com or similar project-management platforms.
Build reports, maintain data, analyze performance, identify trends, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
Interpret business and sales data and use product-performance insights to support category, purchasing, and assortment decisions.
Travel as needed to markets, trade shows, vendor showrooms, factories, stores, and other business activities.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Basic life and AD&D insurance
Long-term disability
Voluntary benefits, including voluntary life and AD&D insurance, short-term disability for employees outside specified jurisdictions, accident insurance, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and pet insurance
401(k) retirement plan
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Vacation accrual and sick leave
Nine paid holidays
Profit sharing bonus plan
25% employee discount at Event Network stores
Separate discount program offering savings on brand-name products, services, travel, entertainment, tickets, and more