Company: Harbor Freight Tools
Location: Calabasas, CA
Career Level: Entry Level
Industries: Retail, Wholesale, Apparel
Description
The Merchant is responsible for supporting the development of defined product categories, executing a retail business plan, aiding their team in strategic planning, managing and training new talent.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Execute and follow-up of retail assortment and category reviews
- Create and hone business plans, including strong and detailed promotional programs. Maximizing Gross Profit Dollars and improving profitability of programs following direction of Senior Merchant and Director
- Analyze and recommend various pricing strategies by item and category
- Coordinate promotional plans to drive average basket and increase sales per sq. ft.
- Collaborate across a cross functional team to maximize sales and profit for assigned business unit
- Supervise, manage and develop team while maximizing productivity
- Inventory collaboration for sales planning
- Lead item transition process across all relative departments and define forecasts
- Assist Space planner in roll out of new programs
- Present plans to all levels of management including executives
- Multitask and direct multiple projects simultaneously
- Collaboration with brand development and packaging team
- Execute and follow up with the operations team in order to execute new items and programs
- Work with Inventory to recognize where items are at in the product life cycle
- Supervisory Responsibility – Yes
- Organizational Scope – Works with various departments across the company and outside parties
- Decision Making – Yes
- Travel – Less than 10%
Requirements
Job Qualifications – Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business or a related field is required
- A minimum of 4 years' experience in Merchandising/Category Management or related field
- Previous experience supervising and managing others is a plus
- Excellent leadership, negotiating, presentation and planning skills a must
- Proficient in Microsoft Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Comfortable presenting to all levels of management including exeutives
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Physical Requirements
General office environment requiring ability to:
- stand, walk, sit for extended periods of time
- speak and listen to others in person and over the phone
- use keyboard and read from computer screen and reports
- lift up to 15 lbs.
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