Merchandising Manager

5 days ago

Bloomington, Indiana, United States Colony Brands, Inc. Full time
Job Description

Exciting growth opportunities. Professional stability. You can have both

Our Heritage: Over the last 97 years, our company has grown from a premier mail-order cheese company to include a diverse portfolio of affiliates, brands, and products ranging from apparel to award-winning bakery goods. All the while maintaining our roots as a private, people-centric business based in Monroe, WI. Today, Colony Brands is one of North America's largest and most successful multi-channel direct marketing companies.

We are seeking a Merchandising Manager to support the customers of our hardgoods division. As a Merchandising Manager, you'll have the opportunity to positively impact the customer experience and profitability of a stable, family-owned, customer-centric company. Do the challenges of retail and merchandising energize you? Do you enjoy helping others grow in their roles? If so, then this role should be of interest to you

What You'll Do:
As a Merchandising Manager, you'll support the business by developing, leading, managing, and participating in various merchandising and design activities for the hardgoods division. In coordination with the Divisional Merchandising Manager and Brand Leaders, you'll have responsibility for the financial profitability of lines within assigned categories.

In addition, you'll:

• Develop merchandise assortments for multiple brands within the Colony Brands portfolio based on sales data and market trends that support the brand strategies

• Convey product ideas to the divisional leaders and the cross functional team based on category needs

• Work with the sourcing team to build product that meets customer expectations and satisfies the brand KPI's

• Initiate and manage consumer, market, industry, and competitor research to identify business opportunities while keeping a pulse on existing customers and understanding needs and expectations of prospective customers within assigned market segments

• Partner with key cross-functional partners (marketing, e-commerce, creative services, sourcing, planning, database analytics, finance, legal, customer service, IT, operations) to ensure category execution is on brand and delivers to business objectives

• Participate in high-level business discussions and decisions requiring an understanding of the scope of the business and adapting/using creative tools to solve general business problems

Qualifications

To be successful, you must have experience in Direct Mail Order, Retail or Internet Sales. We're looking for someone with strong verbal and numerical reasoning skills and Merchandise Management experience. Ideally you will have a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Retail Consumer Science, Marketing or a related discipline.

In addition, we are looking for:

• A creative individual that can conceptualize merchandising strategies, articulate them and develop product that supports the brand vision

• 5+ years' of Strong Merchandising, Marketing, Financial and General Business knowledge

• Toy category experience is preferred, but not necessary.

• A strong aptitude to research and analyze business opportunities

• The ability to work with a multiple cross functional partners

• An ability to think ahead and plan over a 1 to 5 year planning horizon

• The ability to organize and manage multiple priorities/tasks and lead complex, multi-department projects to optimal completion

• A demonstrated ability to lead people and achieve positive results through others

• Ability to function as a senior member within the merchandising team

• Deep understanding that the organization is built on a series of integrated business processes; You must understand how each process works and how they are interrelated to other processes

About Us

Colony Brands, Inc. is one of North America's largest, multi-channel, direct-marketing companies. The company maintains an extensive portfolio of affiliates, brands, and products ranging from cheese and petit fours to apparel and kitchen appliances, while maintaining its roots as a private, customer-centric business based in Monroe, WI. We're financially sound, yet our success is not just defined by our profits; it's about living our Core Values, giving our employees the opportunity for growth and providing a better place to live and work To that end, Colony Brands generously supports the communities we work in and offer many benefits and programs that support the well-being of our employees.

Benefits Details

Colony Brands is not just about growing our profits - We are about giving our employees the opportunity for growth and providing a better place to live and work. We also offer our employees many great rewards in addition to monetary compensation:

Medical/Dental/Vision insuranceA robust Wellness Program including Onsite Healthcare Superb Retirement Plans (401K & a company-funded Pension Plan) Extensive Paid Time Off (PTO) benefits Seven 4-day work weeks in the summer months to give our employees additional time off Educational Assistance Company Profit-Sharing Company Product Discounts And, so MANY more

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