Merchandising Operations

Job Description: Merchandise Operations - Drive seasonal operational excellence working cross-functionally within and outside of merchandising, planning, commercial to provide structure and support for the GPM Merchandising team in a fast-paced environment. Demonstrate the ability to multitask working through multiple seasonal deliverables to organize the team for a successful and efficient delivery of seasonal game plan deliverable. Ensure processes are defined, efficient, and aligned to seasonal key dates and deliverables of the Merchandising team to cross functional partners.

Lead and drive process excellence, meeting management and cross functional communication to provide Merchandising team with tools needed to deliver consumer right assortments and line architecture. (VIBE IQ, ROADMAPS)

Build and maintain seasonal end to end merchandising gameplan timeless for IMP

Lead and drive development of merchandising tools to enable merchants to create seasonal product assortments built on consumer and business insights (VIBE VMLP)

Build and maintain master line list, marketplace segmentation, pricing, assortment tiering, style buy readiness and sku management tools (VIBE + MLL+FLEX+ PRICING)

Coordinate seasonal sample sets, CTM samples and support for product wall walks and setups.

Lead and drive regional carryover process across business units.

Act as the main point of contact for all product related topics with Global Product Ops team and internal operations teams.

Support Apparel operations process and toolkits (L4L sample management, buy consolidation, upcharge review)

Provide seasonal trend information to support sell in process.

Communicate and lead product updates to cross functional teams

Organize internal BOX folders to ensure seasonal files are maintained in an organized manner

Comments for Suppliers: *Max Bill Rate is ***/hr; role is onsite at Converse HQ *Function* Merchandise planning upstream to Global/GEO Teams and downstream to partners *Required Skills* Merchandise planning, seasonal planning, Excel, Zoom, organized, efficient, partnering across teams *Preferred Skills* *** and footwear experience *Interviews* HM to play by ear

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