Merchandising Manager
Jetzt bewerben Später bewerben Job ID 10086766 Standort Kissimmee, Florida, USA Veröffentlichungsdatum 19/04/2024 Unternehmen Consumer Products Games & PublishingJob-Zusammenfassung:
About the Role & Team
The Walt Disney Company’s retail footprint includes the global DisneyStore e-commerce platform and shopping experiences in Disney Parks, lifestyle and outlet locations, stores and third-party retailers around the world, including Disney store shop-in-shops at select third-party retailers.
How would you like to have an influence on the products and merchandise we present to our guests in our retail locations? Reporting to the Senior Manager, Merchandising, you will be responsible for the strategy and line architecture for a category, working with creative and product design to ensure the highest quality, consumer focused, trend right product line across all channels of distribution that build brand equity! This will lead to meeting our financial targets!
What You Will Do
On any given day, you drive the daily implementation of the product strategy for the Home Category by:
- Assisting in the development of a consumer-focused product strategy that is commercially viable and delivers a consistent worldwide look and feel for brand/ category.
- Lead the product strategy for a sub-category (ownership of smaller area of responsibility)
- Consumerist: Consumer-obsessed, constantly balancing the art and the science of merchandising to find opportunities, elevate the brand and delight our consumer
- Relentlessly supervise the global competitive landscape and consumer zeitgeist to assemble opportunity
- Champions products developed in collaboration with the design teams to capitalize on trends, anticipate consumer demand and drive product innovation in category
- Consolidates the product needs from all channels to develop one product brief to design ensuring needs of all businesses are met.
- Find commonality in consumer, customer and market trends to minimize duplication; identify areas to reduce complexity and increase efficiencies globally
- Establish perspective on what’s working and why to consistently improve product line
- Partners with Product Design and Sourcing to deliver seasonal product lines for vertical Home category.
- Extensive knowledge about current trends and filter for brand relevance in the Home market
- Understand and support the worldwide segmentation at right price/value from value to premium.
- Execute against opportunities to leverage products, co-brands and collaborations globally
- Track development counts, adoption KPIs and COGs targets
Leadership / management
- Category and brand ambassador to cross-functional teams showing up as a compelling, dynamic, and knowledgeable in all stages of go to market process and partner interactions where product is discussed
- Assist in building compelling stories to sell in and create solutions to drive brand vision and grow sales
- Participate in conversation and activities with sourcing to cost the line, run financial scenarios
- Actively participate in conversation with design to create a product line in all activities, key milestone meetings
- Communicates and collaborates with key commercialization partners
- Lead direct report(s) (if applicable) with immediate feedback on performance and weekly touch bases to review results, regular development and mentorship
- Champion our diversity and inclusion goals through right product and personal growth
Required Qualifications & Skills
- 5+ years of dynamic experience in Product Merchandising, preferably in a Home category or retailer
- Experience working in highly matrixed and/or global product companies a plus
- Confirmed ability to capitalize on market trends and consumer zeitgeist to maximize value creation throughout the trend-cycle
- Ability to create, leverage and scale innovation
- Ability to be a brand steward and maintain brand and product integrity
- Strategic problem solver with the ability to drive execution against a financial plan
- Ability to influence a diverse audience including experience working with external partners and business owners to bring product and assortments to the market
- Successful experience working, and thriving in a highly matrixed company structure
- Collaborative and effective communicator
- Solid Team Player – The ability to build & champion collaborative partnerships across functions & departments
Preferred Qualifications
- Associate’s Degree or equivalent work experience
Additional Information
Our Benefits: Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits
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Über Consumer Products Games & Publishing:
Disney Experiences erweckt den Zauber der Disney Geschichten und Franchisen durch Themenparks, Resorts, Kreuzfahrtschiffe, einzigartige Urlaubserlebnisse, Produkte und noch vieles mehr auf der ganzen Welt zum Leben. Disney nimmt in der Reisebranche eine beeindruckende Stelle ein mit sechs Urlaubsresorts in den Vereinigten Staaten, Europa und Asien, einer erstklassigen Kreuzfahrtlinie, einem beliebten Timesharing-Ferienprogramm sowie einem preisgekrönten Angebot an organisierten Familienabenteuern. Darüber hinaus umfasst Disneys globales Konsumgütergeschäft das weltweit führende Lizenzunternehmen, die weltweit größten Kinderbuchverlage, einen der weltweit größten Spielelizenzgeber für alle Plattformen sowie Disney Stores auf der ganzen Welt und im Internet.
Über The Walt Disney Company:
Die Walt Disney Company ist zusammen mit ihren Tochtergesellschaften und verbundenen Unternehmen ein führendes, diversifiziertes internationales Familienunterhaltungs- und Medienunternehmen mit folgenden Geschäftsbereichen: Disney Entertainment, ESPN sowie Disney Experiences. Von seinen bescheidenen Anfängen als Zeichentrickfilmstudio in den 1920er Jahren bis zu seiner aktuellen Vorreiterrolle in der Unterhaltungsindustrie trägt Disney stolz sein Erbe weiter und bietet Geschichten und Erlebnisse von Weltklasse, die alle Familienmitglieder bezaubern. Disneys Geschichten, Figuren und Abenteuer erreichen Verbraucher und Gäste aus allen Teilen der Welt. Gemeinsam schaffen unsere Mitarbeiter und Darsteller aus Niederlassungen in über 40 Ländern der Welt Unterhaltungserlebnisse, die sowohl auf globaler Ebene als auch im heimischen Umfeld begeistern.
Diese Position ist bei Disney Global Product Dev & Creative, das Teil eines Geschäftssegments ist, das wir Consumer Products Games & Publishing nennen.
Disney Global Product Dev & Creative ist ein Arbeitgeber, der sich für Chancengleichheit einsetzt. Die Beschäftigungsmöglichkeit von Bewerbern wird ohne Berücksichtigung von Rasse, Hautfarbe, Religion, Geschlecht, nationaler Herkunft, sexueller Orientierung, Geschlechtsidentität, Behinderung oder geschütztem Veteranenstatus in Betracht gezogen. Disney fördert eine Unternehmenskultur, in der die Ideen und Entscheidungen aller Mitarbeiter uns helfen, zu wachsen, zu innovieren, die besten Geschichten zu schreiben und in einer sich schnell verändernden Welt wichtig zu sein.