Merchandising Specialist Job Description

Merchandising Specialist Job Description

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Merchandising Specialist Duties & Responsibilities

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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Proven knowledge and ability in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
Work jointly with Sr
Maintain product, costing, and development grids
Order samples for inter-office, sales accounts, and follow-up to track arrival
Manage and process all samples for the current season, past season, and competitors lines
Coordinate all office duties, order supplies, pay bills, handles expense reports, coordinate travel plans
Maintain cage with current product, swatch boards, and leg panels
Meet all samples requests & distributes to appropriate account representative
Send all pricing for new season to Jeanswear
Checks in drop shipments, truck shipments, and GEO shuttles

Merchandising Specialist Qualifications

Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.

Licensing or Certifications for Merchandising Specialist

List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ATD, FFP/SIOC, PMO

Education for Merchandising Specialist

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the merchandising specialist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Marketing, Business, Merchandising, Education, Business/Administration, Management, Communications, Business/Management, Computer Sciences, Accountancy

Skills for Merchandising Specialist

Desired skills for merchandising specialist include:

Current trends
Store and retail operations
Market trends
Word
Microsoft Excel
Pivot Tables
Top sellers and revenue drivers
V-lookups
Advanced formulas
PowerPoint

Desired experience for merchandising specialist includes:

Confirms products are put on sales floor properly and in a timely manner
Arranges product according to planogram specifications
Performs ad set, price change, clean & bright, functionality and farming duties
Insure check-out lanes are set with proper product in each line
Upstocks overstock product when necessary
Downstocks product when necessary

Merchandising Specialist Examples

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Merchandising Specialist Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of merchandising specialist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for merchandising specialist
  • Confirms Raincheck Follow up is completed
  • Confirms functionality checks are complete and problems reported to the manager
  • Brings "lock-up" product to front checkout lanes for customer purchases
  • Confirms closeout and open item program guidelines are followed
  • Support the trafficking of the overall planning of print and online promotions for the brand across all businesses, in alignment with the channel managers, Director of FHT Channel merchandising, marketing, site operations and creative
  • Projects include managing collective page allocation plans, flow and support to the seasonal planning process, keeping all parties aware of changes and timeline needs
  • Trouble shooting partner with site ops to manage issues with promotions and product needs
  • Support site wide shops and events such as clearance, deals and gift finder
  • Personal development to support future promotion into analyst role
  • Previous work experience demonstrating initiative and organization a plus
Qualifications for merchandising specialist
  • Management of parts of the catalogue programme
  • Participate in the development of appropriate procurement strategies
  • Implementation of new agreements
  • Participate in negotiations with suppliers
  • Monitor supplier spend patterns and performance
  • Investigate, and undertake corrective action for poor supplier performance

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