SEA Job Title: Merch Manager
Work Location: Ridgefield Park, NJ, USA
Work Schedule: Hybrid- 4 Days onsite / 1 Day Remote
Top Three Skills Listed
1. Project management
2. Jira / Confluence
3. Website production
Education and Years of Experience:
1) Bachelors Degree
2) 4+
Summary:
The main function of a Merchandising Manager is to plan, create, direct, and coordinate activities for the digital merchandising team across programs and projects. The Merchandising Manager will act as a process guru, communicator, and Samsung.com CX site management lead across all team functions and help drive seamless delivery across all merchandising aspects of the Home Entertainment category. Focused on low funnel pages, the merchandising manager will lead the start to finish process of creating, maintaining, and sun-setting Home Entertainment product pages as well as be a key member of the planning for product launches.
Job Responsibilities:
• Coordinate projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and directing the integration of activities on Samsung.com with internal and external partners.
• Share and own project plans and work back schedules, change management and coordinate with the operations staff to lead success across project start to finish.
• Create requests for work and partners with internal teams on creating briefs and web production documentation.
• Routes requests to various internal and external teams and track progress to meet deadlines.
• Manage third party resources efficiently to ensure all tasks are completed on time and meet expectations.
• Work hand-in-hand with merchandising leads to ensure programs are seamlessly integrated from start to delivery.
Skills:
• Strong understanding of digital merchandising and web production processes.
• Knowledgeable of modern project management principles and ways of working.
• Confident communicating across multiple disciplines externally like creatives and developers as well as within a matrix organization.
• Intermediate understanding of web and merchandising technology.
• Data focused decision making and problem solving.
• Ability to work independently and manage ones time.
Education/Experience:
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, business administration, communications or related field.
• 3-4 years of experience working on onsite digital merchandising, preferably DtC or B2C.
• Background in managing content on CMS powered website, ideally Adobe Experience Manager.
• Experienced in reading and interpreting web analytics, preferably Adobe or Google Analytics.
Beeline Job Description
Summary:
The main function of a marketing manager is to lead the research market conditions in local, regional, or national areas to determine potential sales of a product or service. A typical marketing manager is responsible for gathering information on competitors and methods of marketing and distribution.
Job Responsibilities:
Advise business and other groups on local, national, and international factors affecting the buying and selling of products and services.
Confer with legal staff to resolve problems, such as copyright infringement and royalty sharing with outside producers and distributors.
Develop pricing strategies, balancing firm objectives and customer satisfaction.
Direct the hiring, training, and performance evaluations of marketing and sales staff and oversee their daily activities.
Evaluate the financial aspects of product development, such as budgets, expenditures, research and development appropriations, and return-on-investment and profit-loss projections.
Formulate, direct and coordinate marketing activities and policies to promote products and services, working with advertising and promotion managers.
Identify, develop, and evaluate marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics, and cost and markup factors.
Negotiate contracts with vendors and distributors to manage product distribution, establishing distribution networks and developing distribution strategies.
Use sales forecasting and strategic planning to ensure the sale and profitability of products, lines, or services, analyzing business developments and monitoring market trends.
Skills:
Verbal and written communication skills, negotiation skills, customer service and interpersonal skills.
Expert ability to work independently and manage ones time.
Strong mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback.
Expert knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services.
Expert ability to develop marketing and pricing strategy.
Expert knowledge of media production, communication and dissemination techniques and methods.
Education/Experience:
Bachelor's degree in marketing or equivalent training required.
8-10 years related experience required.
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