ECommerce Merchandiser

Carhartt•Dearborn, MI

20h•Remote

About The Position

The ECommerce Merchandiser helps develop seasonal merchandise strategies that grow the ecommerce business and support its financial plan. The role guides cross-functional teams in creating fast, easy, and meaningful shopping experiences for consumers. It includes building assortment strategies, influencing investments, analyzing sales, gross margin percentage and other KPIs, monitoring the market, providing digital merchandising direction, and partnering to create clear, impactful stories and user experiences. As a product owner, the Merchandiser ensures products are set up, photographed, and merchandised throughout the site to drive conversion and support product browsing. The role also contributes to seasonal revenue planning and monthly category forecasts, and partners across marketing, media, creative, merchandising, product, planning, inventory, user experience, and customer service.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Merchandising or a related field; equivalent years of related work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
Four or more years of merchandising, retail, or industry-related experience.
Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and online merchandising tools.
Ability and desire to work at both tactical/operational and strategic levels.
Strong quantitative and analytical skills and mindset, with a general understanding of retail math.
Attention to detail.
Strong understanding of and passion for product, merchandising, store, and website experiences.
Team player with strong collaboration and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

One or more years of ecommerce experience.
Apparel, retail, or consumer products experience.
General product knowledge of apparel.

Responsibilities

Drive seasonal merchandise strategies to create compelling omnichannel experiences and maximize revenue and conversion.
Analyze sales, KPIs, and consumer performance to identify business opportunities and partner with cross-functional teams to act on them.
Communicate business results and seasonal strategies to counterparts in marketing, media, agencies, merchandising, global product, planning, inventory, user experience, and customer service.
Monitor marketplace trends and new ideas related to online and omnichannel shopping experiences.
Participate in developing seasonal financial revenue plans and monthly forecasts by category to maximize product profitability, gross margin dollars, and inventory management.
Own on-figure photoshoots, fit guidance, and copy handoffs.
Provide insight and direction to site merchants to drive category performance, and identify category and product detail page optimization opportunities using customer feedback, analytics, and business results.
Partner with marketing, creative, integrated media, and user experience counterparts to ensure storytelling needs are covered daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonally.
Review consumer feedback from online ratings and reviews and the customer service team to identify optimization opportunities.
Seek opportunities to grow the business and support personal and professional development.