Merchandising Assistant - Part Time

MERCHANDISING ASSISTANT – PART TIME

If you’ve been working in Retail and enjoy fashion but you’re not enamored with working evenings, weekends, or holidays this is an ideal role for you. The Merchandising Assistant will work 20 hours per week to provide support to the merchandising team and will report into the Senior Manager of Merchandising. Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

·Provide a high level of product analysis for various projects in the Merchandising Department

·Provide strong organization support for the Merchandising Department

·Support the buy process from analytics to allocation and order entry functions for the Retail channel

·Manage all new order entry. Collaborate with cross functional departments to ensure orders are allocated and delivered to stores.

·Support Merchandising Team to create tools for key milestone meetings: Looksee, Pricing Meeting, Design Kickoff

·Produce weekly reports to highlight business across all channels

·Create visual guides for Buy Meetings

·Act as a liaison to Creative and Marketing teams for DRP needs. Responsible for Copy and Image turnover to Creative for all DRP products

·Support Merchandising team monthly in Store walkthrough meetings by coordinating samples for set up.

Skill Set Requirements

·Sense of fun / sense of humor!

·Superior Excel skills

·Incredible sense of urgency

·Excellent time management skills

·Ability to multi-task and prioritize

·Creative problem solving

·Highly organized and passionately detail oriented

·Strong verbal and written communication skills

·Comfort with numbers and analysis

·MS Office. Experience with InDesign is a plus but not required.

Education + Experience

·B.A. or B.S.

·Prior work experience in retail merchandising