Business Acumen 

• Proactively generates ideas, insights, and solutions to address anticipated issues. 

• Seeks opportunities to build business knowledge. 

• Identifies and quantifies business benefits of proposed solutions, and tracks benefits after implementation. 

• Demonstrates a “can-do” spirit and propensity for creative solution-based results. 

Analysis 

• Proactively generates ideas, insights, and technology solutions to address anticipated issues to achieve desired ROI. 

• Through analysis identifies opportunities to improve and streamline merchandising practices, determines actions needed to address, and provides recommendations for execution. 

• Demonstrates critical thinking and analytical rigor and validates work for accuracy. 

• Influence order writing decisions by collaborating with vendors, buyers, planners and supply chain to minimize DC processing time and handling costs. 

Relationship Management 

• Develop strong working relationships with Merchants, Supply Chain and Merchandising Operations teams. 

• Build an executive presence through the presentation of recommendations to merchants and their leadership. 

• Improve vendor experience through solution focused collaboration with merchants and vendors to resolve order challenges. 

• Maintain a reputation of credibility and responsiveness to others. 

• Influences and persuades others to drive partners to consensus. 

• Resolves challenges in a proactive and decisive manner and sets high standards for self and others. 

• Collaborate with Imports, Supply Chain, Vendor Relations, Planning, Allocations and Merchants to identify opportunities to streamline order process and improve speed to store. 

• Models Core Values in everyday interactions. 

• Encourages and participates in team activities which helps support an inclusive environment. 

Education and Process Management 

• Develop SOPs and deliver best practices for order writing. 

• Identifies and determines training approach, coaching in the moment, providing eLearning options, one on one touch base coaching sessions, Merchandising Operational Guide, facilitated group training 

• Develops training curriculum and materials for onboarding classes, refreshers, and new process launches. 

• Delivers training materials related to merchandising operations and is viewed as the first point of contact for resolving issues and answering questions. 

• Adapt training approach based on client’s learning and communication style. 

• Identify training tools and technology that enhance the learning experience, improve engagement, accelerate learning, and provide on demand access. 

• Facilitate communication between merchants, IT, and other cross functional teams to develop efficient, seamless solutions for order management to reduce merchant workload. 

• Drives change management to influence company objectives, and models leadership behaviors. 

Education: 

• 4-year College degree or equivalent work experience 

Licenses/Certification/Registration:  

Experience: 

• 2-3 years of experience in merchandising preferred 

• Off-price retail experience preferred 

• Experience with Merchandise systems is preferred 

Skills and Abilities:   

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)  

• Strong analytical skills 

• Excellent organization skills and detail-orientation with the ability to multi-task, prioritize and manage time  

• Ability to manage through conflict and problem resolution 

• Strong computer skills with a thorough knowledge base of Microsoft Excel 

• Ability to identify and apply systems solutions to business problems 

• Ability to work independently 

• Ability to adapt to changes