Merchandising Assistant, Video Games

Description

The Merchandising Assistant works within the Merchandising team on a range of tasks, processes, testing, communication, and other initiatives within the department. The Merchandising Assistant will largely focus on supporting the Merchandising team with vendor onboarding, sku-set up, price changes, reporting, and additional ad-hoc requests. The position will require frequent communication with the Merchandising team, supporting teams, vendors, and distributors.

What will I do?

• Work cross-functionally with Merchandising, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Brand Creative teams to manage, maintain, and oversee the timetable of product launches and the on-site functionality.
• Work with Merchants to strategize and influence site execution of category offers.
• Draft and maintain marketing contracts and implement online marketing initiatives.
• Identify discrepancies within internal processes and provide insight into better practices that improve workflow across the organization.
• Manage the entire life cycle of a SKU, including but not limited to product imagery, product attributes, and any additional assets.
• Review the site daily with customer-first mindset; identifying white space and presenting opportunities within to better drive conversion.
• Ensure all deadlines are met and other responsibilities as assigned.
• Generate and distribute weekly reports recapping business within the category.
• Act as a main point of contact for Site Merchandising as related to testing.
• Review daily reports, including the receiving summary, FC problem receipt and slow-moving titles report and take appropriate action to resolve issues.
• Work collaboratively and form joint partnerships cross functionally and with external vendors to achieve goals, simplify processes, reduce costs, prevent loss, and to ensure that work is completed safely, accurately, and on time.
• Assist Merchant with vendor meetings and communication, product analysis, onboarding, reports, and catalog maintenance.

Related Competencies

• Business Acumen – Understand complex business issues and what drives good decision making.
• Building Strategic Working Relationships – Develop and leverage collaborative relationships with colleagues throughout the organization to build credibility and strong partnerships.
• Navigating Complexity — Proactively and quickly makes sense of complex issues; responds effectively to complex and ambiguous situations; communicates complex information simply.
• Innovation and Problem Solving — Generating innovative solutions in work situations; trying different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities

Who You Are…

• Consistently demonstrates a commitment to GameStop policies and procedures, including but not limited to, attendance, confidentiality, conflict of interest and ethical responsibilities.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret meaningful trends from quantitative and qualitative data.
• Strong listening, written and oral communication skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Ability to recognize discrepancies/errors in written/recorded data/information including the ability to initiate and respond to work errors in a professional manner, working collaboratively and cooperatively with others.
• Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities in fast paced environment
• Excellent attention to detail and quality of work.
• Strong desire to learn, grow, and engage.
• Working presentation skills to effectively present information to an audience of varying responsibility within the company.
• Able to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines.
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, merchandising, or related field from an accredited program required; additional education in retail merchandising, buying, marketing, and business analytics preferred.