Retail Merchandising Job Description
Retail merchandising
provides retail merchandising coverage within designated retailers and assigned territory.
Retail Merchandising Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Attend weekly selling meetings to report out prior week/month business results
Develop visual programs and standards for Frontgate retail stores that achieve consistent, compelling in-store visual presentations
Partner with merchandising team to develop seasonal and augmented merchandise assortments plans for stores, including additional retail specific merchandise
Partner with creative and marketing teams to develop store marketing material and in-store collateral to ensure the Frontgate brand message is conveyed consistently through all channels
Work closely with planning and allocation to develop the inventory plans needed to support initial floor-set and rate of sale
Manage and define a merchandising vision and business strategy for a specific product category while reporting to the Director of Merchandising and part of a vertical team of peer merchants
Create and optimize product assortments in both Specialty and Factory House channels that maximize potential for revenue and profit
Plan and execute effective product life cycles for category assigned including markdown cadence and reorder frequency
Create strategy for product made exclusively for distribution in Factory House as the value representation of the brand
Determine strategy for floor planagrams for product placement
Retail Merchandising Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Retail Merchandising
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPM, APICS, SAP, S/4HANA, PMP, PMI, GIA
Education for Retail Merchandising
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the retail merchandising job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and High School Degree in Education, Marketing, Business, Graduate, Business/Administration, Merchandising, Computer Sciences, Accountancy, Management, Finance
Skills for Retail Merchandising
Desired skills for retail merchandising include:
Merchandising and retail terminology
Retail merchandising
Selling
Current materials
Methods
Top selling products
Excel
Word
Outlook
Customer service
Desired experience for retail merchandising includes:
Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 7 years of directly related experience
Working knowledge of graphics programs, In Design, Illustrator and Photoshop, preferred
Analyze historical sales performance and use as influence in making merchandising strategies for anniversary time periods
Lives and breathes sport and fashion and anticipates consumer trends
Assist customers with purchases, operate the register, and receive new orders
Replenish and maintain inventory levels
Retail Merchandising Examples
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Retail Merchandising Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of retail merchandising. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for retail merchandising
- Responsible for tracking sales results
- Product and accessory expert in all things video, streaming, mobile, home security and automation, and broadband
- Responsible for implementing and driving the overall strategy for your departments
- Identifying high level risk and opportunities, looking at the bigger picture and deciding onkey investments
- Managing sales, mark downs, KPIs and margins
- Leading your teams by example, encouraging growth and development to ensure we have an excellent succession plan in place
- Data entry for creation of new product sku’s, min/max, case packs
- Data entry for creation of new vendors
- Data entry for updates to sku and vendor information
- Enter price changes, promotional pricing along with communication to locations as directed by Retail Manager
Qualifications for retail merchandising
- Develop collaborative retail P.O.S
- Ability to perform physical demanding work in a fast-pace work environment and meet the defined physical activities (frequent lifting, bending, and carrying up to 25 lbs., occasionally over 50 lbs., pushing, pulling, ) while adhering to the safety expectations and processes
- Enter inventory adjustments in the system
- Process and print tickets for vendors/ PO’s as needed
- File maintenance projects as directed by Retail Manager
- Enter damage reports in the system on a weekly basis
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of retail merchandising. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for retail merchandising
- Purpose / Mission
- Accountable for the input and integrity of appropriate paperwork
- Support the implementation of key strategic priorities in market across Retail & Franchise in line with the business and SEAPAC DTC Product Planning framework
- To support\steer and own forecast in the market by channel (ORT,Franchise & Ecom), business unit and margin
- Forecast at article level based on Open-To-Buy (OTB - ORT & ECOM) provided by Manager
- To support and aligned on the given budget is invested to achieve targets by effective use of range planning in the market
- To support on the implementation of Benchmark and KPIs on productivity and sell thru
- Support and Implement product mix according to share of concept stores vs factory outlets, share of categories & distributions, gender mix both ORT & ECOM
- To review and implement right buying analysis by categories for DTC & FRS
- Support improvements in Allocation and Replenishment (A&R) techniques with HUB - ORT & Franchise
Qualifications for retail merchandising
- Experience in different markets
- Highly committed to Gucci brand and strong passion for Operational Merchandising
- Ability to understand current market trends and buying psychological mindset
- Professional background / Experience
- Minimum 4 years’ experience in merchandising or buyer
- Rigorous business analysis - understanding and interpreting data
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Our growing company is looking for a retail merchandising. 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 retail merchandising
- Support and jointly work with Store Operations to ensure grading/option plan is in line with space management (pre-season)
- Steer and support the enhancement of all product planning systems and tools to suit world class merchandising practise
- Support to implement key product planning reports that help evaluate the business goals and ensure findings are considered in strategy establishment
- Support to review size ratios for the new season and take necessary corrective action prior to order placement
- To support on regular analysis of competitor activity and prepare a comprehensive report to the SEAPAC Centralized Team (pre-, in- and post-season)
- To support on analysis sales report and take necessary action
- Support in validating opportunities and challenges for Product Planning in the environment of Product Planning strategies to maximize the Business profitability
- To support and follow up on end of season stocks management (PLC)
- To support and monitor in-season chase model (SPEED,ISC,PR) that is well managed to measure and source reactivity in season with Director Product Planning
- Analyse SVP-Store Visits Pack prior to store visits
Qualifications for retail merchandising
- Must be able to adhere to a work schedule that may include week days, evenings and weekends
- Complete and pass all required client certification tests
- Preferably 2+ years experience in buying or Category Management Posses good fashion sense and consumer trend
- Preferably in apparel/ fashion/ FW or FMCG Retail
- University degree in Marketing or Economics
- Good in MS Office applications
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Our growing company is looking for a retail merchandising. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for retail merchandising
- Develops well written assignment briefs that align with the program objectives, showroom design vision, premier retail principles and ensures that clarity is provided around the business and customer needs for each display or experiential touch point
- Manages day-to-day vendor relationships (including fixture / display vendors, will have key integration with our printer and database vendors) and fosters collaborative relationships that facilitate optimized contribution and accountability
- Understands the development and production processes in order to work with fixture/display vendors, printers and other outside vendors to deliver materials on-time and within budget parameters
- Primary lead role in ensuring that the store database tool (AccuStore) is refined, as needed, and up-to-date with current floor plans and files
- Utilizes space planning and category/assortment retail planning skills to “slot” / develop the display/merchandising strategies for all generational formats and versions
- Monitors associated display inventory levels, ensuring display/product availability aligns with needs
- Partners closely with our Construction team in order to ensure that deployments are executed in alignment with brand standards and the approved retail brand showroom design
- Conveys the objectives and strategies of the retail showroom design to cross-functional partners and develop clear implementation tools to ensure execution with excellence at the frontline
- Responsible for budget management for programs within both capital and expense budgets, including tracking & forecasting
- Executes additional tasks in order to meet departmental project-related or development and change objectives
Qualifications for retail merchandising
- Good command in oral and written English & Bahasa
- Category know how - products, ranges, market trends
- Strong analytical mind set - detail and numbers oriented
- Process and system understanding
- One year merchandising and reset experience in a retail environment (preferred)
- Responsible for the development of planograms for all device and accessory launches and resets, accounting for format and generational variability, segmentation, product variance
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Our company is looking for a retail merchandising. 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 retail merchandising
- Support the Merchandising team in building product assortments and buy plans for Mainline Retail
- Assist with assortment activation in-store by working with Brand Environment, Store Training, and Operations teams
- Assist with assessment and analysis of product performance and help determine appropriate short, medium, and long term actions to optimize opportunities and minimize risk
- Assist the Merchandising and Buying team with the weekly/monthly reporting around key deadlines, deliverables, and meetings
- Develop assortments by location by analyzing product performance, customer and store feedback, and competitive landscape
- Run weekly reporting, analyze product performance, and make action recommendations
- Manage the store replenishment process and monitor available inventory by size
- Own sku level open-to-buy and reforecast sales, inventory, and margin on a monthly basis
- Make pricing and promotion recommendations to maximize sales and turn while meeting margin targets
- Manage pricing updates in the system and communication to stores
Qualifications for retail merchandising
- Bachelor’s degree required with concentration in marketing, communications or related discipline preferred
- Proficiency in reading floorplans, display engineering drawings, CAD files, , ensuring strategy and design alignment
- 5-7 years of experience in a marketing agency, retailer or fixture/display company is preferred
- Experience overseeing the development of planograms is highly preferred
- Strong time and project management skills required to consistently meet deadlines and with an ability to break down complex problems into manageable goals
- Strong detail oriented skills organizational skills is required