MERCHANDISER

This is a great opportunity to join a larger company where you can really grow your career. This is a work in the office situation. This position requires 5+ years of Merchandising experience working in an apparel and headwear firm, a strong attention to detail, along with excellent leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively both internally and externally to help increase the overall profit of the company. Duties and Responsibilities: Lead Merchandiser supporting the Resort VP of Sales, by leading various projects including Sales Analysis Knowledge, Salesmen Samples, Key Account Samples, Cross Departmental Sample needs, Sales Rep Request, Resort Photoshoot, In studio photoshoots, Corporate Photoshoots, Catalog Copy, Brand Vocabulary and Product Knowledge Training Tools Merchandising works to collaboratively create the vision of the apparel brand the Design Department, the knowledge of the Sales Teams, and effectively collaborating with Creative Art to execute the brands voice to the outside consumer Key role of the Merchandising Department is to focus on creating strategic direction for product line management for the League apparel brand across the Resort channel, with focus on overall profitability Keep a breath of latest trends and relay in a timely manner to all creative teams Responsible for working cross departmental for all projects and responsibilities. Projects can involve Product Development/Planning, Sales, Marketing, Creative Art, Production Art, Production, and Senior Management to support apparel sales growth within the company Lead Merchandiser to partner with Art Development on resort side of IPAD- season launches, updates needed, and keeping this sales tool as up to date and useful as possible in support of sales Maintain visibility and work to continue to strengthen relationships with key accounts in both Resort and Corporate channels Channel sales analysis on a quarterly basis to make informed recommendations to drive sales for Sales Reps by summarizing into a quarterly communication: Merchandising Moments; as well as sharing knowledge of sales with Product Development when discussing the product assortment Resort sample lead, collaborating with Art Development and Marketing on art development needs on art selections for tradeshows, salesmen samples, photoshoots and catalogs Key player in success of collaborations- responsible for taking the creative art and building out proposed assortment for Artist to review and approve, continued evolution of the assortment to keep interesting, responsible for sampling across all areas of sales- tradeshows, rep samples, web, sales tools, etc.