Brand Merchant
Location: Beaverton, Oregon
Country: United States
Category: Marketing
Workplace Location: Onsite
Employment Type: Contract
Posted Date: July 22, 2026
Job ID: 650046
Job Description
Brand Merchant
Location: Beaverton, OR
Contract length: ~4 months
Schedule: Hybrid in Beaverton, OR (WFH Fridays)
Pay: $33-38/hr, DOE
The Planet Group is looking for a Brand Merchant to join our well-known retail brand on a roughly 4-month contract! This role is 40 hours per week and will be hybrid in Beaverton, OR, working remotely on Fridays.
Brand Merchant Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 5+ years experience of merchandising and/or product creation experience, in a vertical or wholesale environment
- Footwear, apparel and/or equipment merchandising experience
- Understanding of retail key performance indicators and profit based metrics
- Strong strategy building skills that shape the future of the business
- Effective communicator that collaborates and brings people together
- Values differences and builds positive relationships with high cultural awareness
- Proven balance of art and science in decision-making
- Self-directed, independent, and dedicated
- Cultivates innovation while also ensuring accountability
- Communicates vision and purpose and able to lead effectively in complex situations
- Solves problems using limited information and implements solutions with the ability to foresee most future implications
- Advises others on complex matters requiring in-depth knowledge or conceptual thinking
- Responds with speed and agility, curiosity, and motivation
Brand Merchant Description:
- Help craft the future strategy, develop the long-range line plans, and create seasonal assortments to help drive this important silo within the portfolio
- Utilize marketplace data, consumer insights, foresight, and hindsight to influence strategy and create strategic line plans to serve the consumer
- Partner closely with product creation partners to ensure product lines are aligned to the opportunities that have been identified
- Lead the management of merchandising KPIs through robust analysis of retail insights and performance
- Build positive and trustworthy relationships with partners to build and land the line plans and seasonal assortments that meet the needs of consumers and take them to a new places
- Work closely with global and geo merchants and cross-functional teams within product creation, planning and brand marketing
- Work with finance, operations and the insights/analytics teams; relying on business reporting for your area which includes quantitative and qualitative metrics on sales, inventory, consumer behaviors and trend
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About The Planet Group
The Planet Group is a global professional services firm delivering strategic staffing and advisory solutions. We operate at the intersection of talent and transformation – connecting the right people with the right opportunities in the areas of technology, engineering, accounting & finance, digital marketing, and manufacturing.
As one of the largest staffing companies in the US, we operate with a global reach and a performance-first mindset. We partner with clients to move fast, stay agile, and drive measurable results – building high-impact teams that fuel transformation and growth.
