Purchasing Project Manager - SSC

Event Network•San Diego, CA

About The Position

The Purchasing Project Manager creates the operating structure that helps merchandising priorities move with speed and discipline. The role connects people, timelines, information, presentations, and processes across a fast-moving organization, serving as a project and communication partner to merchandising leadership. It owns key project workflows, presentation decks, tracking tools, meeting outputs, and cross-functional coordination; surfaces risks and decisions; and ensures teams have the information and follow-through needed to execute. The position manages priority merchandising projects from initiation through completion, translating leadership direction into actionable plans and maintaining visibility into scope, milestones, owners, dependencies, deliverables, risks, open decisions, and changing priorities. It coordinates with merchandising, Creative, Planning, Store Quality, Product Development, Purchasing Operations, and other partners, identifying bottlenecks and escalating issues with recommendations. As the merchandising power user for Monday.com, the role builds and maintains boards, dashboards, workflows, automations, templates, and project views; establishes tracking standards; trains team members; and improves visibility, accountability, and process effectiveness. It also creates polished PowerPoint and Canva presentations for executive reviews, partner meetings, product presentations, workshops, and strategic initiatives, organizing visual assets and coordinating complete, accurate, cohesive, and timely content. The role builds and maintains processes, assortment calendars, trackers, approval workflows, and shared resources; communicates with the Purchasing Team during assortment reviews to document partner feedback and approvals; organizes resources in SharePoint and shared systems; and supports merchandising leadership with workshops, planning sessions, presentations, and special projects. The successful candidate is exceptionally organized, proactive, resourceful, and visually sophisticated, with strong follow-through and the ability to create clarity and accountability as priorities shift.

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, with strong ownership and the ability to anticipate needs and create momentum.
Exceptional organization, follow-through, and ability to remain calm as priorities shift.
Ability to communicate confidently across executives, merchants, creatives, store teams, and cross-functional partners and create accountability.

Responsibilities

Manage priority merchandising projects from initiation through completion, defining scope, milestones, owners, dependencies, decisions, and deliverables.
Translate leadership direction into actionable plans and maintain visibility into status, risks, open decisions, and changing priorities.
Coordinate across merchandising, Creative, Planning, Store Quality, Product Development, Purchasing Operations, and other partners.
Identify bottlenecks early, follow up proactively, and escalate issues with clear recommendations when needed.
Build and maintain Monday.com boards, dashboards, workflows, automations, templates, and project views.
Establish standards for statuses, owners, due dates, dependencies, files, and decision tracking.
Train team members on effective use of Monday.com and related tools, simplify duplicate tracking, and improve visibility and accountability.
Proactively 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.
Turn product imagery, financial highlights, timelines, and leadership direction into clear presentations with strong visual hierarchy.
Coordinate presentation inputs to ensure content is complete, accurate, cohesive, and on time; maintain presentation templates and standards.
Organize product images, samples, creative assets, and supporting materials for reviews.
Build and maintain processes, assortment calendars, trackers, approval workflows, and shared resources.
Communicate with the Purchasing Team during assortment reviews, ensuring partner feedback and approvals are documented and reflected 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.