Merchandising Assistant Job Description
Merchandising Assistant Duties & Responsibilities
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Merchandising Assistant Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Merchandising Assistant
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Education for Merchandising Assistant
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Employers hiring for the merchandising assistant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Business, Merchandising, Technical, Marketing, Education, Fashion, Associates, Retail Management, Business/Administration, High School Education
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Merchandising Assistant Job Description
- Assist in Quarterly Presentation prep work
- Create Product Knowledge sheets and communicate product information to other departments
- Reviews files regularly to uncover unnecessary items
- Processing Reorders utilizing re-order form to produce purchase orders for buyer designated quantities taken off of statistical reporting
- Processing "Close Outs" and produce purchase orders as directed by the Buying team
- Processing import orders and produce subsequent purchase orders
- Processing purchase orders on all newly purchased product and set up for re-order as needed
- Stocking Keeping Unit (SKU) maintenance
- Adding / deleting SKU's as needed for reorder system
- Make both domestic and international travel arrangements including transportation, hotel and dining arrangements
- Proficient in MS PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Outlook
- Ability to lead and motivate multiple groups and/or individuals
- Associate's Degree (A.A.) from a two year college, and at least 1 year related experience and/or training
- Ability to take initiative and prioritize multiple tasks
- Coordinate and complete special assignments and projects as required
- Stock and sales management
Merchandising Assistant Job Description
- Works with the accounts, warehouse teams to process store stock takes
- Monitors, reports and rectifies warehouse locations in transit
- Monitors ‘in stock and not on pricelist report’ and corrects
- Provide new barcodes to stores
- Reports negative stock position
- Manages stock crediting procedures
- Submits weekly discrepancy and transfer error report
- Monitors stores delivery acceptance
- Prepares weekly invoice reporting for month end
- Processing reorders by utilizing reorder forms to produce purchase orders for buyer designated quantities taken off of statistical reporting
- Processing purchase orders on all newly purchased product and setting up for re-orders as needed
- Process purchase orders on all newly-purchased products and set up for re-order as needed
- Oversee Stock Keeping Unit (SKU) maintenance
- Add/delete SKUs as needed for reorder system
- Coordinates domestic and international travel, car service, and accommodations for the entire Merchandising team
- Manages department budget with respect to office supplies, subscriptions, samples, and travel for the Merchandising team
Merchandising Assistant Job Description
- Organizes relevant Merchandising group outings and educational activities
- Guarantee that product flow meet legal requirements
- Support the line planning and development process with a strong understanding of business unit’s needs and the market
- Analyze all weekly, monthly, quarterly sales reports
- Partner with Design through the entire conceptual and commercialization process
- Partner with Visual Merchandising, BU Merchandising and Creative teams on sample management and sharing
- Own all systemic work such as line plan creation, price changes, assortment updates
- Partner with Business Unites and Design to develop comprehensive seasonal line plans
- Liaison to all facets of the business including Design, Planning, Visual Merchandising and Creative Services
- Partner with Merchandise Planning for additional analysis and reporting where needed
- Continuous use of technical and business vocabulary and detailed knowledge of business operations
- Responds well to supervision, feedback and redirection
- Previous role(s) in administrative or other support function in a fast-paced environment
- Friendly, collegial
- Shop the market to stay abreast of trends
- Gain a knowledge of all top investments, and build strategies to support those investments
Merchandising Assistant Job Description
- Maintain the Catalog imagery onsite
- Support all Catalog initiatives by monitoring early, on time, and late product, monitoring catalog content to ensure accuracy, and managing catalog activations to ensure all product will be online in time
- Prioritize key messages and interpret on order and key buys into big ideas and executable campaigns, and then work with buying teams and analysts to prioritize drivers, margin builders, support strategic initiatives, new ideas, and brand builders
- Identify items and/or assortments for online messages that will populate the homepage, emails, features, supernav, and landings
- Communicate styling tips to the web stylists and use the buying teams for support
- Attend weekly style-out meetings
- Be the point person for the Merchandising team’s cross-functional partners
- Support weekly blog and social team requests by using current product, suggesting alternatives if samples aren’t available, and/or communicating sample needs to the buying teams
- Identify trends and newness in the market and among our competitors
- Own the product lifecycle management process via EC Vision
- Have a good understanding of the Anthropologie Home customer
- A minimum of 8 years’ experience interacting with executives, previous experience within a Merchandising or Creative environment
- Manage all assortment tools accurately and in a timely manner
- Manage the sample process
- Assist in Line Presentation prep work
- Participate in competitive research
Merchandising Assistant Job Description
- Manage all Pricing in the system, including JPY and execute Price Changes
- Participate in Market Week Set Up
- Proficiency in ECVision
- Maintain GFE+ system
- Responsible for all sample requests (photo shoots, licensee requests)
- Own style set up process-obtain UPC codes, color, cost and store attribute information and input into line planning systems
- Manage samples - Maintain lending log and coordinate sample across cross functional teams for key meeting set up, product knowledge, and monthly floorset
- Assist in quarterly Line Presentation prep work – build and maintain assortment tools and sku counts
- Partner with such teams as Product Knowledge, Visual Merchandising and Store Operations to build tools and manage communication to stores
- Manage special projects and assist the Associate and Assistant Managers to support the Women’s Merchant team as necessary
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook
- Knowledge of the home/interiors industry preferred
- Knowledge of brand and position of Women’s POLO
- Strong ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and deadlines
- Proficiency in Excel, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint
- Proven ability to work independently, multi-task, and mange time wisely