Headwear Merchandiser - L2 Brands

The Headwear Merchandiser is a highly qualified, motivated, and organized individual with experience in headwear and brand knowledge. Merchandisers play a key role in the success and growth of the company working with sales, customer service, marketing and creative art. This position holds 3+ years of merchandising or related experience. This position will focus on our college, golf, and strategic account teams and will assist the Senior Headwear Merchandiser and VP of Headwear Merchandising with additional projects as needed. This position reports to the Senior Headwear Merchandiser.

Job Level Expectations:

1. Ability to delegate responsibilities
2. Responsible for delivery, productivity, innovation and customer solutions;
3. Exert good judgment in their prioritization and allocation of resources;
4. Understand how their area "fits" into the bigger picture and communicate within the organization to enhance effectiveness.
5. Consistently demonstrate L2 Brands’ Core Values;
6. Take initiative and contribute beyond their job description, not waiting to be told what to do. They are expected to figure out what needs to be done.
7. Take personal responsibility for mistakes, missed performance goals and work to get things back on track ASAP and learns from their mistakes;
8. Foster an environment of continuous improvement where problems are identified, and solutions are presented;

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Ahere to annual, quarterly, and monthly calendars to meet deliverables and overall workload for College/LSAT and Golf working closely with the entire headwear team. Understanding that deliverables and deadlines occasionally require flexibility based on competing priorities and business needs.
2. Select College/LSAT and Golf Sales Rep Samples for each season launch working with Senior Merchandise, VP Headwear Merchandising, VPs of Sales, and senior management. Process includes sample order entry, tracking, and overseeing shipments to sales reps.
3. Manage College headwear portion of proprietary iPad app.
4. Support reps and key customers for custom/additional headwear requests across assigned channels.
5. Train and guide internal and external customers on product and decoration launches and inquiries.
6. Review and update all College/Golf Headwear Sales Collateral for accuracy. Provide suggestions on copy and other updates as needed.
7. Work closely with L2 Brands licensing team on all headwear needs.
8. Assist in preparing tradeshows and concept shops, this includes samples, planograms, etc., and occasionally travel to shows or concept shops to merchandise, train, and assist reps.
9. Maintain headwear in all showrooms across the U.S. as well as sample storage areas.
10. Assist in Database Management: Set up new designs and configure style attributes with a clear understanding of needs to allow designs to flow through the system properly.
11. Work with Marketing and Digital Marketing on all headwear collateral needs.
12. Prepare quarterly trend reports including best-selling styles, art and skus by channel for rep communication. Work with sales to identify top skus from each trade show.

Essential Functions:

1. Strong attention to detail.
2. Multitask across various projects, giving each the allotted time to meet deliverables.
3. Excellent color matching skills.

Other:

1. Work on special projects as needed.
2. Sustain effective and positive working relationships to ensure an environment that is in alignment with both the Company’s Core Values and profitability goals.
3. Be an ambassador for the company, both internally and externally to help build confidence, pride and value in the company.
4. Performs other duties as assigned by (functional area senior management team member).

Required Education/Experience/Skills:

1. Bachelor’s Degree or relevant experience in related field
2. 3+ 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 player 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.

Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses a computer, phone, etc.

Essential Functions and Physical Demands: This position works in an office environment. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. On occasion light physical duties are necessary such as moving boxes & building sales rep sample kits, etc. This is usually done in a team atmosphere though where others are able to do any heavy lifting if & when necessary.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:

This is a full-time salaried position with a minimum of 45 hours a week in the office. Longer hours, evenings and weekend work will be necessary as needed.

Travel:

This position may require up to 15% of travel.