Merchandising Planner

Job Title: Merchandising Planner
Duration: 3 Month W2 Contract
Location: Boston, MA 02114; In-office Mon-Thurs (Fri Remote)
Pay: $32-$40/hour depending on experience

Job Description:

Merchandise Operations - Drive seasonal operational excellence working cross-functionally within and outside of merchandising, planning, commercial to provide structure and support for the GPM Merchandising team in a fast-paced environment.

Duties:
• Lead and drive process excellence, meeting management and cross functional communication to provide Merchandising team with tools needed to deliver consumer right assortments and line architecture. (VIBE IQ, ROADMAPS)
• Build and maintain seasonal end to end merchandising gameplan timeless for IMP
• Lead and drive development of merchandising tools to enable merchants to create seasonal product assortments built on consumer and business insights (VIBE VMLP)
• Build and maintain master line list, marketplace segmentation, pricing, assortment tiering, style buy readiness and sku management tools (VIBE MLL FLEX PRICING)
• Coordinate seasonal sample sets, CTM samples and support for product wall walks and setups.
• Lead and drive regional carryover process across business units.
• Act as the main point of contact for all product related topics with Global Product Ops team and internal operations teams.
• Support Apparel operations process and toolkits (L4L sample management, buy consolidation, upcharge review)
• Provide seasonal trend information to support sell in process.
• Communicate and lead product updates to cross functional teams
• Organize internal BOX folders to ensure seasonal files are maintained in an organized manner

Required Skills:
• Merchandise Planning
• Seasonal Planning
• Excel
• Zoom
• Organized & Efficient
• Cross Functional Collaboration

Preferred Skills:
• Footwear