Job Details
Strategic Merchandising Leader
- Direct hire position
- Salary up to $120K with bonus
- Outstanding benefits and working culture
- Remote opportunity with quarterly travel to Madison Wisconsin (paid)
- No direct reports, but will own merchandising strategy!
As Our Strategic Merchandising Leader You Will
- Develop and implement the company's strategic merchandising vision
- Create category-specific engagements, landing pages, product recommendations, solution-oriented experiences in collaboration with executive leaders, product managers, and marketing subject matter experts
- Leverage your merchandising expertise to enhance customer engagement and boost revenue
- Curate and manage the products' presentation across all channels (digital and print), ensuring optimal placement, storytelling, visual appeal, and user friendliness
- Utilize analytics and sales data to monitor product performance, identifying trends and opportunities for sales improvement, conversion rates, AOV, items per order, and customer engagement
- Monitor industry trends, competitor activities, and emerging technologies to propose innovative ideas for enhancing the customer shopping experience
- Expect to dedicate about 70% of your time developing strategies and 30% executing them
Requirements:
- A bachelor's degree in marketing, business, or a related field
- Minimum 8 years experience in leading merchandising, e-commerce, and digital marketing strategies
- Expertise in data analysis and ability to draw actionable insights from web analytics
- Proficiency with SEO principles and their application to increase online visibility
- Creative mindset with an eye for design, layout, and visual storytelling
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Proven experience in creating and presenting strategies to influence executive leadership
- Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team
- Detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products
The ideal candidate will possess a passion for digital merchandising, a positive attitude, be highly collaborative, adaptable, willing to take initiative, with a strong interest and passion in serving diverse communities.