Merchandise Specialist

Job description

Our merchandising team aims to deliver the best value and selection to our customers through products, services and solutions all centered around our customers’ needs. We are driven by customer insights and analytics to bring products and solutions to market seamlessly. We’re inclusive, well-rounded professionals who have deep experience in buying, selling, negotiating, operations, design, innovation, finance and more. What you’ll be doing: - Support all buying and selling activities with ability to act as Merchant when needed - Vendor Program Negotiations: support merchant in all necessary prep work and execution (pulling programs, sending templates, etc.) - Managing cost deviations: assist merchant in tracking deviation spends, performing profitability analysis (customer and vendor level) and processing and communicating cost increases - Executing all SKU-level operations (set-up, content, activation, inactivation/end-of-life) in various systems and assisting merchant in managing the master assortment - Responsible for creating and running reports to support financial review and analysis of vendors and assortment as requested by merchant - Entering and updating promotions in all...