Division Merchandise Manager
Event Network • San Diego, CA22d
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Division Merchandise Manager - San Diego or Park City
Event Network•San Diego, CA
About The Position
Event Network is seeking a Division Merchandise Manager for its Convenience & Packaged Food category. The role leads enterprise category strategy across assigned divisions, using collective scale, intelligence, and buying power to improve cost of goods, strengthen vendor partnerships, and create product opportunities. It combines merchandising, negotiation, and people leadership, including developing Buyers and working with General Merchandise Managers and the Creative Center of Excellence to create differentiated, commercially compelling products. The preferred locations are San Diego, California, or Park City, Utah; remote work is also an option for the right individual. The leader will shape category and cost-of-goods strategy, negotiate significant vendor relationships, identify product and market opportunities, and develop a high-performing buying team. Success requires balancing enterprise value with quality, innovation, speed, business-unit needs, and differentiated product experiences. The role requires polished presentations using Canva and PowerPoint; strong project management and proficiency with Monday.com or a similar platform; advanced Excel and analytical skills; and the ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, vendor relationships, and product initiatives. Physical activities include sitting, standing, walking, handling products and samples, and occasionally reaching, climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or lifting and moving merchandise samples and materials. Travel is required 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 to build reports, maintain data, analyze performance, identify trends, and translate findings into recommendations.
- Ability to interpret business and sales data, evaluate product performance, and apply insights to category, purchasing, and assortment decisions.
- Strong organizational and detail-oriented skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, vendor relationships, and product initiatives simultaneously.
- Exceptional merchandising ability, commercial judgment, product instinct, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to combine rigorous financial thinking with creativity and balance lower cost with appropriate product value and quality.
- Ability to develop people and build category expertise.
Responsibilities
- Develop category strategies to improve product, cost, quality, terms, and scalability.
- Use enterprise spend, volume, and vendor intelligence to identify leverage and opportunities beyond a single business unit.
- Improve value through sourcing, negotiation, product engineering, volume leverage, vendor consolidation, and alternative solutions.
- Balance value, quality, speed, innovation, and business-unit needs, challenging fragmented or legacy approaches when a stronger enterprise solution exists.
- Lead significant negotiations and establish commercial relationships that create sustainable value.
- Negotiate cost, terms, minimums, lead times, quality expectations, and vendor capabilities.
- Build a supplier network, evaluate competitive alternatives, and create access to innovation, flexibility, and long-term opportunity.
- Set vendor performance expectations and coach Buyers in managing vendor relationships.
- Track product, consumer, category, and marketplace trends and identify emerging vendors, brands, materials, manufacturing techniques, formats, and capabilities.
- Partner with General Merchandise Managers to connect business-unit needs with category and sourcing solutions and surface enterprise opportunities.
- 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 skills, and strong execution.
- Set clear expectations for discovery, sourcing, vendor management, product development, performance, timelines, and collaboration.
- Create accountability while enabling Buyers to make sound decisions, and develop proactive, succession-ready talent.
- Travel as needed to markets, trade shows, vendor showrooms, factories, stores, and other business activities.
Benefits
- Profit sharing bonus
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Career Level
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