Purchasing Project Manager - SSC

Event Network•San Diego, CA

1d•$30 - $32

About The Position

Event Network is seeking a project manager to organize and advance merchandising priorities across a fast-moving organization. The role connects people, timelines, information, presentations, and processes, and partners with merchandising leadership to move work from idea to completion with clarity and accountability. The position owns key project workflows, presentation decks, tracking tools, meeting outputs, and cross-functional coordination. It translates leadership direction into actionable plans, maintains visibility into status, risks, decisions, and changing priorities, and helps teams execute with speed and discipline. The role serves as the merchandising power user for Monday.com, creating and maintaining boards, dashboards, workflows, automations, templates, and project views. It also develops polished PowerPoint and Canva presentations, maintains presentation standards, organizes supporting assets, and builds processes, calendars, trackers, approval workflows, and shared resources. The position coordinates with the Purchasing Team during assortment reviews and supports merchandising leadership with workshops, planning sessions, presentations, and special projects.

Requirements

2–4 years of experience in project management, merchandising operations, retail, purchasing, or a related field, coordinating projects and supporting cross-functional teams.
Strong project management skills, including prioritizing work, managing timelines, tracking dependencies, and advancing initiatives.
Advanced Monday.com skills, including boards, dashboards, workflows, automations, templates, and project views.
Proficiency in Canva and PowerPoint, with strong visual, storytelling, and presentation skills.
Strong Excel, reporting, data organization, SharePoint, and cross-functional coordination skills.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex information.
Proactive, resourceful, and action-oriented approach, with strong ownership and the ability to anticipate needs and create momentum.
Ability to stay organized and follow through while priorities shift, and to communicate confidently across executives, merchants, creatives, store teams, and cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

Manage priority merchandising projects from initiation through completion, including scope, milestones, owners, dependencies, decisions, and deliverables.
Translate leadership direction into actionable plans and maintain visibility into project status, risks, open decisions, and changing priorities.
Coordinate across merchandising, Creative, Planning, Store Quality, Product Development, Purchasing Operations, and other partners; identify bottlenecks, follow up, and escalate issues with recommendations when needed.
Build and maintain Monday.com boards, dashboards, workflows, automations, and project views; establish standards for statuses, owners, due dates, dependencies, files, and decision tracking.
Develop repeatable templates and workflows, train team members on Monday.com and related tools, simplify duplicate tracking, and improve visibility and accountability.
Surface workflow challenges, team support needs, and roadblocks to leadership with context and constructive recommendations.
Create polished PowerPoint and Canva presentations for executive reviews, partner meetings, product presentations, workshops, and strategic initiatives.
Coordinate presentation inputs for completeness, accuracy, cohesion, and timeliness; maintain templates and standards; organize product images, samples, creative assets, and supporting materials.
Build and maintain processes, assortment calendars, trackers, approval workflows, and shared resources.
Own communication with the Purchasing Team during assortment reviews, documenting partner feedback and approvals and reflecting them in timelines, deliverables, and next steps.
Organize files and resources in SharePoint and shared systems.
Support merchandising leadership with workshops, planning sessions, presentations, and special projects.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Basic life and AD&D insurance
Long-term disability
Voluntary life and AD&D insurance
Short-term disability for employees outside of CA, NY, NJ, HI, RI, and Puerto Rico
Accident insurance
Critical illness insurance
Hospital indemnity insurance
Pet insurance
401(k) retirement plan
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Vacation accrual
Sick leave
Nine paid holidays
Profit sharing bonus plan
25% employee discount at company stores
Discount program with savings on brand-name products, services, travel, entertainment, tickets, and more