This page tracks remote merchandiser openings that are location-eligible for Illinois.
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• Routes nationwide doing tobacco resets • Capital projects doing new store set ups, remodels, and more
Break Through and unleash the power of your brand with one-of-a-kind experiences.
• Own and lead merchandising strategy for newly awarded accounts, ensuring alignment with the commercial vision, pricing architecture, and margin commitments established during the sales process. • Translate RFP strategy and client commitments into scalable assortment architecture, defining SKU strategy, pricing tiers, margin targets, and long-term growth pathways. • Analyze historical sales reports, transition inventory data, and prior SKU performance to inform assortment decisions, minimize financial risk, and optimize continuity during program migration. • Conduct comprehensive research on brand positioning, competitive landscape, consumer segmentation, and industry dynamics to shape initial product direction. • Establish foundational product standards including decoration guidelines, quality thresholds, vendor strategy, and compliance expectations. • Validate costing structures, pricing logic, and margin integrity prior to launch; proactively identify risk and course-correct. • Collaborate with Category Merchants and Sourcing to influence vendor selection, negotiate costing, secure production timelines, and protect profitability. • Develop strategic product presentations in collaboration with Creative that clearly articulate curated assortments, innovation, and pricing strategy, ensuring alignment with the client’s brand and business objectives. • Align closely with Business Development and Account Leadership to ensure seamless continuity between what was sold and what is launched. • Lead complex domestic and overseas product development initiatives to meet brand, quality, and financial objectives. • Oversee decoration standards, product specifications, and quality expectations to maintain brand consistency. • Ensure SKU setup accuracy, product data governance, art asset organization, proof approvals, and sample validation. • Manage and approve final product details, e-commerce copy, imagery, specifications, and size architecture to ensure brand alignment and accuracy. • Partner with Implementation Program Management to build detailed workback schedules and hold cross-functional teams accountable to launch milestones. • Align with Inventory and Operations teams to ensure onboarding, forecasting accuracy, fulfillment readiness, and risk mitigation. • Document assortment rationale, pricing strategy, and vendor decisions to ensure seamless transition to ongoing merchandising & account management. • Identify early optimization levers that position accounts for margin expansion and sustainable growth post-launch. • Drive process refinement and contribute to scalable implementation standards that improve speed-to-market and operational efficiency. • Mentor and support junior team members involved in implementation activities. • Demonstrate leadership through action by stepping into executional details when needed, removing roadblocks, and personally driving deliverables to ensure successful and timely launch outcomes.
Break Through and unleash the power of your brand with one-of-a-kind experiences.
• Build and manage annual, seasonal, or program-specific product assortments aligned to client goals, brand standards, margin targets, and timing expectations • Analyze sales performance, market trends, customer insights, and assortment productivity to identify opportunities, gaps, and recommendations • Curate product collections with a strong merchandising point of view, balancing trend, brand fit, function, price point, and business goals • Source products by partnering with internal category teams, suppliers, and manufacturers, while evaluating options for quality, cost, availability, margin, and lead time • Play an active role in product development from ideation through final execution by helping shape product direction, guiding how branding is applied, and influencing final product decisions through a merchandising lens • Partner with vendors, internal SMEs, and Creative teams on sourced and custom products to help ensure the final product meets brand standards, customer needs, quality expectations, and market appeal • Serve as a brand steward for assigned clients by building familiarity with their guidelines, audience, and product expectations, and translating that into strong assortment recommendations • Create and present product assortments, collections, and merchandising rationale to internal and client stakeholders • Partner with Program Management and cross-functional teams to support timelines, approvals, product setup, and launch execution, while helping identify potential risks or blockers and contributing to solutions that keep work moving forward • Review business performance, inventory, and SKU productivity to recommend assortment changes, support continuous improvement, and identify sourcing or cost-saving opportunities
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