eCommerce Merchandiser (Temp-to-Hire)

Foresight • Irvine, CA

83d • $30 - $33

About The Position

We are seeking an eCommerce Merchandising Coordinator (Temp-to-Hire) to join our Adventure Sports platform which consists of Fox Racing, Bell Helmets, Giro Sport Design, CamelBak, QuietKat Electric Bikes, Blackburn and more. This position will assist the team in creating the best-in-class site curation, digital landscape, product education, and shopping experience for their brands. This role requires a highly motivated self-starter who is detail oriented, and can balance a variety of tasks, processes, and communication. This person will assist in analyzing and reacting to dynamic frameworks to maximize sales, margin, conversion, engagement and turn. They will execute product stories from inception to implementation to drive topline sales. The Site Merchandising Coordinator also stays current with competitive marketplace trends in ecommerce, analyzes, synthesizes, and proposes potential opportunities for curated stories, landing pages, navigational updates, and the overall guest experience. This position reports to the Sr. Manager of Analytics and Merchandising and is based out of our Adventure Sports headquarters in Irvine, CA.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, ecommerce, Accounting, or a related field of study.
• 2+ years digital experience in merchandising, buying, or planning; apparel experience a plus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint.
• Experience with Google Analytics required.
• Experience with a PM tool such as JIRA/Confluence or Asana on campaign planning.
• Experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud (Demandware), Hybris or Shopify a plus.
• A quick study of systems.
• Experience working across tools, ERP, site platform, Excel, GA.
• Proactive, self-starter who can work well both independently and as a member of a cross-functional team on multiple concurrent projects.
• Curious and passionate about product data and analytics.
• Effective communicator, good at managing deadlines, prioritizing their deliverables and passionate about ecommerce merchandising.

Nice To Haves

• Marketing/Web experience associated with a national-level retailer.
• Practiced in the basics of full-lifecycle product management.
• Understanding of retail industry and related retail channels.

Responsibilities

• Merchandise the product catalog to drive customer engagement, increase conversion and optimize search relevancy on all device types.
• Manage site merchandising calendar to maintain monthly timelines on product build and product go-live on site.
• Own product data: manage and review merchandise presentation on site to ensure the categorization, imagery, product knowledge and pricing are accurate and meet brand guidelines.
• Manage flow process of products to the site, tracking and organizing all product assets (imagery, copy, sizing, and taxonomy) to guarantee products are live on time.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to develop and prioritize photoshoots for digital product assets to be used across digital entities.
• Manage digital photo communication, shot list and workflow to ensure details, key product messages and curated site experience are executed.
• Collaborate with the photo studio to ensure there are no missing images on site and support where required with providing sample products to and from the studio for photoshoots.
• Collaborate with team on site presentation strategy across categories to ensure categorization, sequencing, copy, imagery, and cross-selling are optimal and customer facing.
• Conduct high quality analysis and combining multiple data sources (including sales, ecom, competitive, customer-level, industry-wide, global) to generate insights and actionable recommendations.
• Create a curated product mix through thoughtful assortment planning: using trends, sales and ecom data, competitive intel, and customer demand, determine and maintain the right product mix per category/subcategory.
• Collaborate, review seasonal buys with management, and work closely with the demand planning and product merchandising teams to execute seasonal assortment strategies.
• Active participation in the innovation trail process for seasonal assortment planning.
• Maintain assortment plans to track all product related activities.
• Track inventory, communicating delays and shortages to mitigate business impact.
• With ecom alignment, management of product life cycle including Product Selection, Site Addition, Discounting or Sales, Site Removal and Redirect.
• Identify gaps in the assortment or opportunities for category expansion.

Benefits

• medical and dental
• vision
• disability and life insurance
• 401K
• PTO
• paid holidays
• gear discounts

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees