Assistant Merchant (Boca Raton)

We hold our people, our customers, and our brand in the highest regard. Our people drive our businesses, so we strive to attract the best in our industry. They have different life experiences, educational and cultural backgrounds, but they share many things in common : a commitment to teamwork, to growing great brands, and to building a future full of possibilities.

At Boston Proper, we put our passion and expertise into everything we do. Youll find it in our commitment to unique designs and polished looks that help women feel as fearlessly feminine and as beautifully powerful as they are.

We are searching for an Assistant Merchant to join this amazing team. In this role you will be responsible for assisting the Merchant in achieving sales and profit goals of a specific category and / or department through supporting selection, pricing, and promotion of merchandise by utilizing appropriate merchandising techniques via catalog and digital commerce to maximize the company's return on inventory investment. Supports merchandising through a variety of daily tasks including data entry, business analysis, presentations, product review and vendor meetings. A successful candidate will be detail-oriented, creative, analytical and can quickly pivot to support the tactical needs of a growing organization.

Key Responsibilities :

• Provide overall support to the Merchant team in creating an exciting product assortment that meets or exceeds sales volume and profit for their area.
• Responsible for sample management of designated categories.
• Communicate photo sample deadlines to external market vendors and track missing samples to ensure deadlines are met.
• Responsible for packing samples for designated categories for the creative photography shoot.
• Responsible for data entry and maintaining accuracy into PLM system for designated categories.
• Responsible for maintaining accuracy of copy and imagery for designated categories across web and catalog.
• Perform research analysis of the designated categories and identify trends and opportunities that can be applied to the core customer.
• Create strong partnerships among cross functional areas including planning, trend / design / tech design, product development / sourcing, marketing / digital commerce and creative.

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