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Buyer / Merchandising Specialist
Location: Hybrid in Beaverton (Onsite Monday – Thursday, Remote Friday)
Duration: 8 Months
Pay: up to $46.66/hour, DOE
Planet Interactive is looking for a Buyer / Merchandising Specialist to join our well known retail brand on a 8 month contract! This role is 40 hours per week and will be hybrid in Beaverton, OR.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Buyer (Merchandising)
One Bowerman Drive Washington County, OR 97005 US
Posted: 01/15/2025
2025-01-15
2025-02-18
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Category: Marketing
Job Number: 627764
Country: United States
Is job remote?: No
Job Description
Buyer / Merchandising Specialist
Location: Hybrid in Beaverton (Onsite Monday – Thursday, Remote Friday)
Duration: 8 Months
Pay: up to $46.66/hour, DOE
Planet Interactive is looking for a Buyer / Merchandising Specialist to join our well known retail brand on a 8 month contract! This role is 40 hours per week and will be hybrid in Beaverton, OR.
Responsibilities:
- Focus on consumer insights and assortment planning Go to Market and product management activities
- Act as an expert in building Consumer Right Assortments for assigned category location
- Brief the product engine on the needs of the consumer for both the category/geography and upcoming trends
- Work across the product engines to ensure that product is being created with the retail end in mind
- Edit the product line for assigned location and category using both directed assortment and selecting the line outside of the global core product with a goal of meeting revenue targets
- Build directed assortments that supports category vision working with geographies with retail end in mind
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher, or combination of relevant education, experience, and training
- 4+ years experience in Footwear, Apparel, Equipment, or relevant consumer product merchandising, product creation and/or retail in a vertical, multi-brand or digital environment
- Strong command of common retail and/or digital metrics such as sell-through, margin, full price realization, weeks of supply, etc.
- Proven ability to translate consumer, sales, trend, and marketplace insights into in-season and long-term breakthrough strategies
- Preparing seasonal tools to equip your marketplace partners with an understanding of seasonal priorities.
- Experience developing strong working relationships with teammates and cross-functional partners
- Great teammate and contributor, with an attitude and excitement to learn new things
- Strong communication skills and comfort navigating a cross-functional matrix with an emphasis on influencing skills
- Attention to detail, understanding the importance of consistency