Merchandise Assistant

Company Overview:

Our client is a luxury international fashion & premium lifestyle company with products ranging from apparel, home, accessories & fragrances. In business for over 40 years, they have developed a distinct image & have become one of the world’s most recognizable & iconic brands.  Their company culture is focused around building strong teams of fun, philanthropic & smart employees who want to create a better work & look fashionable doing so.

Position Overview:

In this role you will be assisting the Merchandise team with building product assortments.

Responsibilities:

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  Create and manage wholesale, retail and e-commerce purchase orders

  
  


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  Generate and analyze sales and inventory reports

  
  


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  Manage trafficking of samples through entire product process

  
  


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  Work with cross functional teams to develop assortments based on previous season’s sales

  
  

Key Qualifications:

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  Bachelor’s Degree required

  
  


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  1-2 years of experience as a Merchandise Assistant with a corporate fashion merchandising team

  
  


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  Advanced proficiency in Excel including pivot tables and v-lookups, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook

  
  


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  Must be proficient in retail math and understand how to calculate margins, sell through % and other retail math terms

  
  


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  Excellent communication skills