Merchandising Analyst Job Description
Merchandising analyst
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Merchandising Analyst Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Performs weekly, monthly and seasonal reports to support the Product Merchandising team, with both wholesale and retail reporting analytics
Assist Product Merchandising Director with the line review and brief reports
Coordinates monthly item SKU master for each account through Edifice
Responsible for setting up new product reports for the region
Assists Product Merchandising Director with seasonal projections by style/color
Responsible for Ad hoc analysis using all sales reporting tools which could include Edifice, Pivotlink, BW, Cognos, CTI, leapfile, filezilla reporting
Responsible for distribution of Product Merchandising reports to sales representatives
Responsible for development of best practices in the business analyst role as it relates to Vans' developing wholesale business
Executes action-oriented analysis of product pricing and product mix to support future sales and margin growth
Builds relationships with similar roles in other coalition brands to develop best practices and leverage VF resources
Merchandising Analyst Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Merchandising Analyst
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPM, APICS, ASE, PMP
Education for Merchandising Analyst
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the merchandising analyst job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and High School Degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Merchandising, MBA, Education, Economics, Statistics, Business/Administration, Computer Science
Skills for Merchandising Analyst
Desired skills for merchandising analyst include:
Excel
Subject area
Access
Word
Outlook
Power Point
Tires
Wheels and related items
Microsoft Excel
Broader functional area
Desired experience for merchandising analyst includes:
Coordination & communication with outside sales individuals
Lead the Business (users) to obtain specifications related to changes in the business functions for projects
Experience with Oracle Retail Management application (RMS, RPM, ALLOC, SIM) is a plus
Ensure alignments with business for deadlines, peak time or GMM support
Experience/knowledge of the Global Merchandising and Sample Order Processes is an advantage, but not necessary
Candidate must have strong Wholesale merchandising (buying) and/or planning background
Merchandising Analyst Examples
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Merchandising Analyst Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a merchandising analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for merchandising analyst
- Assist with the initial determination of the feasibility of requests, ensures user requirements are thoroughly and accurately documented in accordance with standard techniques utilized by the IS department
- Help manage the scope and change control of project in coordination with IS management and business partners
- The role will also require monitoring inactive inventory in our international distribution centers
- Manage and maintain merchandise data within SAP
- Analyze merchandising data
- Sales and Merchandising reporting
- Manage the Merchandise Model
- Develop overall understanding of the Merchandising business and the processes and tools being leveraged to fulfill their required capabilities
- Manage the requirements process for large, cross-divisional technology projects by facilitating, eliciting, gathering, documenting, validating, prioritizing and establishing baseline business requirements
- Ensure testability / traceability of requirements and manage changes to the requirements baseline
Qualifications for merchandising analyst
- 3+ years experience as a planner, analyst, account manager, assistant buyer in the retail/wholesale industry and/or other related experience
- A strong understanding of reporting and analysis is required
- Understanding of POS data transmission process and management process
- Strong fundamental understanding of the action sports retail industry
- Minimum 5 years of wholesale systems experience
- Planning and/or Allocation
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of merchandising analyst. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for merchandising analyst
- Regularly visit stores to understand impact of visual guideline, product density and in store business trends
- Financial and Assortment Planning
- Bachelor’s Degree with at least 3 years of experience in merchandise planning
- Strong time management & task prioritization skills
- Consistently allocates a localized assortment into the stores based on sound analytics and a predetermined merchandising strategy
- Partner with the business and technology teams to define software delivery project requirements and scope to fulfill business strategies identified for supporting the company stock ledger invoice matching & processing
- Develop overall understanding of the Foundation & Reporting business and the processes and tools being leveraged to fulfill their required capabilities
- Partner with the business and technology teams to define software delivery project requirements and scope to fulfill business strategies identified to support the company’s price management capability
- Develop overall understanding of the Finance, Supply Chain and Merchandising business, processes and tools being leveraged to fulfill their required capabilities
- Own requirements definition for large, cross-divisional technology projects through elicitation, documentation, validation, prioritization and management of business and technical requirements
Qualifications for merchandising analyst
- Island Pacific Merchandising
- Assortment Planning System
- ProClarity or other BI Tool
- Successful track record of launching Merchandising applications
- MID Retail
- Provide Business and financial analysis on the performance of major merchandising initiatives
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a merchandising analyst. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for merchandising analyst
- Serve as a mentor and coach to other members of the team and participate in peer reviews of requirements deliverables
- Code, debug, and test application programs utilizing Java and web based programming tools
- Technically lead complex merchandising projects including estimating, requirements, design and development
- 20% - Manages the retail price models and all outputs including pricing worksheets and labor bills
- 20% - Conduct detailed pricing and gross margin variance analysis by product by market
- Partner closely with the Merchants to understand and execute the unique selling strategies for these two product categories
- Perform the annual budgeting, monthly and weekly forecasting, and long range planning activities for these product categories
- Partner with the Pricing team to ensure everyday prices are aligned with promotional strategies for each of these categories
- Partner with the Marketing team to understand how the marketing plans for these categories will impact the forecast, budget, and actual results of these categories
- Work closely with the Ecommerce and Analytics teams to understand how the website experience is impacting sales and margin trends for these categories
Qualifications for merchandising analyst
- Work with the Reporting and Analysis Team to develop standard analysis templates and/or tools to support the merchandising department
- Analyze merchandise tests to determine success
- Basket Analysis
- Ability to manage vast amounts of information on a daily basis
- Proficiency in Microsoft applications essential
- Bachelor’s Degree in business/accounting/computer related field
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a merchandising analyst. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for merchandising analyst
- Identify risks and opportunities based on analytical observations
- Maximize product efficiency through long range planning and proactive communication with Merchandisers
- Provide analytical direction for the merchandising teams in order to brief products and/or special programs
- Participate in pre-season guidance and post-season hindsight to drive line planning by season
- Utilize syndicated data and trend research in the analysis of the competitive market
- Understand the Front Shop business model (including Private Label costing) and retail performance reporting
- Understand and interpret P&L sheets for the national brand business and private label
- Be the gatekeeper for annual vendor contracts, enter and understand their revenue rates and unique contract elements pertaining to certain vendors
- Be the gatekeeper for retail pricing, taking into account category margins and comparing with market data
- Run key cadence reports – such as a weekly financial performance report, weekly service level report, monthly banner performance report – further dissected into various divisions/categories/vendors
Qualifications for merchandising analyst
- 2 years marketing/merchandising experience
- Specific technical training or PMP / Project Management certification is a plus
- Will likely assign daily tasks/work to junior level staff on project teams
- Knowledge and experience with retail and merchandising processes, systems and reporting is preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Merchandising or related field or combination of experience and education in lieu of completed degree
- Associate's degree in Business or related field or two plus years related experience and/or training
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of merchandising analyst. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for merchandising analyst
- Work with the purchasing team and external vendors to understand order forecast requirements patterns
- Ad hoc reporting, on a daily basis, with a vast range of requirements from requests for performance on certain SKUs for certain time periods, to overall category performance
- Works closely with the different business units to ensure business needs are being met and goals are being achieved on a monthly basis
- Work with Omni-Channel Analyst and Product Developers to divide assortments in the correct matrix buckets
- Gather data and analyze results to create a matrix reporting template
- Build Assortment, Subcat, and Promotional Matrix overviews with supporting graphical data
- Market research on competitive assortments specifically on the Subcat level
- Make independent decisions that affect the function and performance for company-wide shared database system, troubleshoot issues that arise
- In collaboration with Search Marketing Manager, create search engine optimized (SEO) copy for products and taxonomies, review team members’ work and provide improvement direction
- Analyze and enter customer level deviated costs with a high degree of accuracy
Qualifications for merchandising analyst
- Bachelors degree - Business, Information Technology, Engineering or Organizational Leadership
- 5-7 years experience - cross functional business process analysis
- Formal process training preferred - TQM, Six Sigma, Lean, Kaizen, etc
- Ability to use statistical and graphical tools to analyze data a plus
- Strong problem solving, analytical and troubleshooting capabilities
- Comfortable with information technology development concepts