OverviewOtter Products is currently recruiting for a Merchandising Specialist to join our Merchandising team! In this role you can be based at our Fort Collins, CO headquarters, working a hybrid schedule or remote if you are not local.
As the Merchandising Specialist, you will partner closely with leaders across Merchandising, Supply Chain, Finance, Insights, Sales, and other cross-functional groups to identify promotional opportunities driving growth and profitability, track marketplace pricing, trends and customer assortments and create customer facing presentations to support the Sales Team. This role will support strategic initiatives within Merchandising to include supporting annual customer sell-in strategies and identifying opportunities and implementing improvements to streamline our pricing systems and processes, creating efficiencies for cross-functional teams.
You will be responsible for synthesizing data related to promotions to identify trends, measuring effectiveness, and providing insights that inform future strategies. The work performed will contribute to business decisions with a goal of optimizing promotional activities and maximizing return on investment while supporting revenue growth.
Responsibilities
- Shape, develop, and evolve long-term and annual strategic promotional planning processes within Merchandising that deliver strong results and are in alignment with Sales goals and company objectives.
- Partner with Finance and Sales to measure, optimize, & iterate for effective promotions.
- Support the development and activation of select strategic initiatives within Merchandising, inclusive of supporting the Program Management Team with the sell-in experience, customer meeting preparation, and sample management.
- Work closely with Supply Chain and Merchandising Managers to understand inventory positions to support promotional planning and drive targeted promotions based on inventory and/or price margin realization (PMR) opportunities.
- Partner with Sales to ensure customer goals and needs are represented through planning processes, customer presentation preparation, and sample coordination.
- Evaluate pricing systems and processes to identify and implement continuous improvements with a focus on simplification.
- Provide strategy recommendations to team members and leadership.
- Partner with the Insights Team to synthesize marketplace trends, alongside quantitative and qualitative data to drive actionable insights leading to strategies and concepts that will inform the brand, influence product creation, and drive business growth.
- Monitor and track marketplace trends, pricing, and customer assortments.
- Partner with Merchandising Leadership to drive internal pricing communications and coordination of price list documentation.
- Identify opportunities and tactics to drive growth aligned with Otter Products strategic priorities.
- Support and maintain a positive safety culture by following all safety policies and procedures and actively contributing to a safe working environment.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required. Experience in lieu of degree may be considered.
- Minimum of two years of corporate business, marketing, sales, finance, product or project management experience is required.
- Experience with merchandising, sales promotions, and/or customer assortment required.
- Familiarity with process improvement methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma is preferred.
For US Based Roles Only - Base Compensation Range MinimumUSD $78,000.00/Yr.
For US Based Roles Only - Base Compensation Range MaximumUSD $102,000.00/Yr.
Additional Total RewardsOtter Products offers a robust benefits package to eligible employees including medical, dental, vision, basic life, voluntary life, long-term and short-term disability, employee assistance program, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and 401(k) retirement plan. Additionally, for eligible employees, we offer accrued paid time off based on seniority, volunteer time off, parental leave, bereavement leave, company holidays, and years of service awards. Check out otterproducts.com/careers/why for more info., Variable Incentive Program - This position is eligible for the Profit Sharing Program.
