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Web Coordinator
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Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Founded in 1970, Urban Outfitters (www.UrbanOutfitters.com) operates more than 200 stores in the United States, Canada, and Europe, all offering an eclectic mix of merchandise. We stock our stores with what we love, calling on our—and our customer's—interest in contemporary art, music, and fashion. From men's & women's apparel and accessories to items for the apartment, we offer a lifestyle-specific shopping experience for the educated, urban-minded individual in the 18 to 30 year-old range—both online and in our stores as well as through our catalog.
Title
Web Coordinator
Reports to
Senior Web Coordinator
Overview
Urban Outfitters is looking for a creative, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to play a key role in the product catalog management and visual merchandising for UrbanOutfitters.com. The Web Coordinator will be responsible for a variety of e-commerce operational tasks and duties, including site catalog management, new product activation, quality assurance, product attribution for search and navigation, website shop-ability and creation of brand appropriate web categories based on selling and merchandising strategies.
The ideal candidate is a dynamic, highly flexible, and driven individual who can excel under pressure and tight time constraints. This position will be responsible for a multitude of tasks across the website relating to web merchandising and e-commerce marketing. Exceptional organizational and communication skills, attention to detail, with the ability to filter and prioritize feedback and requests strategically are the keys to success in this role.
Responsibilities
• Track products daily through a merchandise tracking system, and execute onboarding of up to 150 products per week within in an international catalog.
• Utilize multiple web applications such as a catalog management system, content management system, merchandising and on-site search tool, and inventory and tracking systems.
• Create compelling, trend-driven and brand appropriate product categories based on product attribution, merchandising feedback, current trends and analysis of product and category metrics.
• Attend meetings and work collaboratively with Buying, Operations, Photo Studio/Styling, Copy, DC/Call Center, Planning, and Merchandising teams to insure delivery of brand-appropriate web categories and merchandising.
• Execute weekly markdowns and category promotions.
• Identify and resolve technical issues before they go out to the customer; follow-through until resolution is vital.
• Ongoing QA and monitoring of website content and proper functionality.
Required Skills and Experience
• Experience working in an collaborative or professional environment.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills that can be applied inter/intra departmentally to obtain critical information from other teams or individuals.
• Strong capacity for multi-tasking, organization, working independently and time management. Candidates should be able to prioritize and maintain a high level of accuracy doing multiple tasks in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
• Proactive personality.
• An appreciation for and understanding of the Urban Outfitters customer and aesthetic.
• A passion for retail and specifically eCommerce in today’s marketplace.
• In-depth computer literacy and internet proficiency.
• Must be comfortable working with technical systems and troubleshooting web issues.
• Competency with web-based product, content, or catalog management applications.
• Visual merchandising experience, preferably web merchandising.
• Understanding of global e-commerce website experiences and international fashion markets.
• Technical expertise to answer questions about or troubleshoot problems with the website.
• Interest in utilizing data to make decisions. Basic understanding of Google Analytics, IBM Core Metrics or Adobe Omniture is a plus.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree in a related field.
Location
Philadelphia, PA