Merchandising Web Admin

About Unrivaled Teamwear

Unrivaled Teamwear serves as the parent company of Champion Teamwear, Gear for Sports, and Knights Apparel, each an industry leader in the sports and team apparel space.

Our family of brands know what goes into great decorated garments, using top-quality fabrics and offering creative decoration options. Each brand offers customers a premier selection and exceptional service for all their sportswear needs, from t-shirts and caps to fleece, performance wear, and outerwear.

Overview

The Merchandising Web Admin will facilitate the batch processing of collegiate garment decoration art, using our data-driven graphics system. They will ensure that the resulting art-to-garment pairings meet company quality standards, institution licensing requirements, and match requested details from our partner Direct-to-consumer web sites. They will facilitate the hand-off of projects to the GFS Licensing team for approval, and release to our partner web sites.

Merchandising Web Admin will be bridging the worlds of company graphics standards, licensing requirements, Pulse art Engine capabilities, and decoration options by garment style. Additionally, they will share in the department’s responsibilities for uploading and organizing product catalogs and art collections used by sales reps and internal users. This role works alongside the Admin Merchandising Web Lead and Graphic Systems Manager.

Job Responsibilities

• Ensure the setup and completion of projects requesting specific art-garment pairs for a list of collegiate institutions
• Evaluate images from the Dynamic Art Generation (DAG)tool for esthetics and compliance with institution-specific requirements
• Assist with verifying institution data (verbiage and colors) via GFS order history and web research
• Ability to organize and work with a large volume of data
• Help manage aspects of the Dynamic Art Generation (DAG) tool, StyleMaster database, Art Template database, and ECOM Sales Catalog database.
• Periodically interact as part of the IT team testing and trouble-shooting various DAG tool applications.
• Periodically use Adobe Illustrator to setup new DAG templates files with specific element naming and organization.
• Share in other department responsibilities, including the upload and organization of catalog and art collection PDFs to our sales rep-facing web site.
• Coordinate with Graphic Systems, Sales/marketing, brand and graphic design teams to refine general requests into specific project assortments for each requested school/institution
• Develop the ability to apply team color stories across art and product assortments, working with the Graphic Systems, Graphic Design, Brand and Licensing teams.
• Develop a strong knowledge of decoration options across our brands and products
• Ability to verify school-specific licensing requirements by referencing our institution database
• Previous experience or knowledge of team graphic esthetics and restrictions, a plus
• Join in daily team video calls for project updates and trouble-shooting
• Communicate effectively via email with the Graphic Systems, Graphic Design, Brand and Licensing teams

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in graphic design, marketing, apparel, business, or equivalent experience preferred
• 1-2 years of licensed product/fanwear experience related to graphic design, art or licensed product proofing preferred
• 2-3 years of experience in graphic arts/graphic design preferred
• Mastery of Macintosh computer and graphic design software (Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop)
• Understanding of basic graphic art concepts such as composition, color relationships and balance
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office Excel and Outlook.
• Previous experience or knowledge of team graphic esthetics and restrictions, a plus

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the associate. Other duties will be assigned as needed.

EOE/AA: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing as well as participate in E-Verify.