Senior Merchandiser

For 30 years League & Legacy collectively as L2 Brands have been producing premium custom graphic logo headwear, apparel and home décor. L2 is rooted in a hardworking, entrepreneurial culture driven to provide best-in-class products in a fun, relaxed environment.

Summary:

The Senior Merchandiser for Resort and Corporate is a highly qualified, and highly motivated individual with strong background in brand knowledge. Merchandisers play a key role within a company and drives line planning with contribution from Sales, PLM and Creative Art. 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. This position reports to the VP of Merchandising and Marketing.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Keep a breath of latest trends and relay in a timely manner to all creative teams
5. 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
6. 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
7. Maintain visibility and work to continue to strengthen relationships with key accounts in both Resort and Corporate channels
8. 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
9. Resort sample lead, collaborating with Art Development and Marketing on art development needs on art selections for tradeshows, salesmen samples, photoshoots and catalogs
10. 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
11. Serve as key member of the Decoration Committee, while continuing to evolve understanding the abilities and limitations pertaining to decoration.
12. Plays a key role on sample communication with all factories
13. Support in the training session of the line launches both internally and externally
14. Tradeshow lead for vision, design and execution for the League brand- by working closely with Merchandising teams and Sales Managers on the needs and expectations for each individual booth space.

Required Education/Experience/Skills:

1. Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Merchandising, Fashion Design and/or Marketing
2. 5 Years of experience
3. Excellent Leadership Skills
4. Strong communication
5. Strong collaboration skills
6. Strong design aesthetic
7. Exceptional skills in Microsoft Office
8. Highly creative
9. Highly analytical
10. Have a thorough understanding of trends and product life cycles

Competencies:

1. Outstanding time management, good judgment and ability to manage multiple priorities/deadlines with a positive can-do attitude.
2. Extremely organized.
3. Excellent leadership; interpersonal; collaboration and verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work with others at all levels within an organization.
4. Highly productive and a strong team leader who works with a sense of urgency and hands-on approach.
5. A level of self-direction and self-motivation in aligning your personal actions and areas of responsibilities within the company and understanding their fit into the bigger picture.
6. Ability to cross boundaries within the organization to enhance your effectiveness and advance your objectives and achieve results.
7. The ability to quickly adapt to, be accepted by and inter-relate with colleagues at all levels, particularly in a company with a very strong and rich corporate culture.
8. An honest and forthright individual who is flexible, coachable, upfront and direct with direct reports, peers and management.
9. Strong understanding of products offered by L2 Brands.
10. Commitment to company vision/values/brand.