BDA is hiring a
Freelance Merchandiser

Summary

Join our team as a Freelance Merchandiser and contribute to developing, sourcing, and curating compelling product assortments for our clients. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for negotiating and developing strategic supplier relationships, building assortment strategies that deliver creative and profitable products, and driving sales through the selection of product, pricing, and return on investment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of work and experience
• Minimum 3-5 years of retail buying, product development, merchandising and/or planning experience
• 1-3 years management experience preferred
• Fluency in MS Office suite including Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Retail and customer service experience preferred
• Smartsheet experience a plus
• PLM/Oracle experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Participate in Assortment Analysis meetings and contribute to pre-assortment strategy discussion
• Define seasonal product strategies that identify future opportunities and trends
• Ability to take current trends and translate into creative product applicable to client business type
• Gather new/relevant trend info from WGSN and other trend resources in preparation for new line development
• Negotiate, build and source strategic and profitable product assortments
• Independently drive sales through the selection of product, pricing and return on investment
• Use current and historical data to evaluate what is working effectively or not and create actionable insights that inform the line architecture
• Demonstrate analytical and critical thinking and how to apply to the business
• Run weekly merchandise status calls with clients and internal WIP meetings as needed
• Ensure successful product line presentations to clients
• Use data and influencing skills to gain partnership from internal partners and clients on assortment strategies to ensure profitability
• Share productivity of assortment with accounts and internal partners
• Confidence and ability to articulate and sell a concept to a business team
• Responsible for areas including compliance, quality, and operational metrics (metrics including compliance, alliance partners, product margin, etc.)
• Negotiate buying terms with suppliers (price, quantity, quality, delivery, etc.)
• Oversee the execution of product launches

Benefits

$35.00 - $40.00 an hour