Merchandise Manager - Brand
Colony Brands, Inc.

Job Info

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Job Description

We are seeking an entrepreneurial Merchandise Manager - Brand with impeccable integrity, strong business acumen, and a positive attitude who will play a crucial role in driving each catalog's strategy, product mix, and financial integrity. If you're a strong collaborator who enjoys the challenges of translating a vision into action, then this role may be for you!
What You'll Do:
As a Merchandise Manager - Brand, you will lead the execution of the brand prefix and channel vision, ensuring that each catalog's strategy aligns with our financial goals and customer experience objectives. This position is grounded in both analysis and creativity, requiring you to communicate brand vision(s), strategies, goals, and business plans to cross-business and cross-functional partners. By strategically determining product and promotional focuses for each catalog, you will create a compelling customer experience while delivering on planned business performance.
You'll also be responsible for:
• Driving the overall strategy for each catalog, including product mix and promotional focuses, to ensure financial integrity and alignment with brand goals.
• Providing leadership that inspires and motivates the cross-category merchandising team toward a cohesive vision for key product focuses and messaging across channels and prefixes.
• Building strong working relationships, driving collaboration, empowering, and supporting cross-functional partners to enhance catalog performance.
• Creating catalog product focuses and flow strategies, accounting for the total brand experience that includes printed catalogs, digital communications, and merchandise.
• Visual merchandising of catalogs that balances the art of telling compelling product stories with the science of investing ad spend by product.
• Conducting Financial Planning and Analysis to understand and communicate the scope of the business, adapting creative tools to solve general business problems and ensure financial integrity.
• Partnering with Creative teams to ensure that creative message/execution aligns with brand objectives and enhances the customer experience.
• Managing calendars and processes to successfully deliver on seasonal planning milestones.
• Taking ownership of your development and seeking ways to continuously improve performance and knowledge.

Qualifications

We're looking for someone with strong merchandising and financial acumen and demonstrated understanding and application of key financial metrics, with 5+ years of industry experience in direct marketing (e-commerce, retail, or catalog). Ideally, you will have a bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, retail consumer science, or a related discipline. In addition, we are seeking:
• A strategic thinker who can translate broad strategies into specific objectives and action plans that effectively drive catalog performance.
• Expertise in customer, competitor, industry, and market data intelligence and understanding of analysis techniques.
• Established ability to influence and partner across functional and organizational lines to achieve results.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to work independently with limited supervision.
• We value collaboration and believe that it often happens best in-person. All members of the Merchandising team are required to work onsite at our Monroe, WI Design Center.

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 insurance

A 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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