Merchandising Lead
Catch.com.au, Australia
Job Description
Here at Catch we are embarking on an exciting period of growth, as our business grows so does our team, we are seeking a Merchandising Lead to help us achieve our ambitious goals.
Reporting to the Head of Merchandising, you will play an important role in building sales events, with a large role to play in the major sales promotions that roll out on a daily basis as well as major tactical events. You will combine an understanding of how to make products sell, creative merchandising and what drives eCommerce sales, as well as an ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams.
What does a normal day in the life of a Merchandising Lead at Catch look like?
Well no two days at Catch are alike, but you could probably expect your typical day to include some of the following things:
- Collaborate with Marketing and Buying departments to drive sales on Catch that are supported by a data-centric strategy and results analysis
- Coordinate daily visual merchandising in line with the brand guidelines and merchandising principles for the Catch website including digital marketing campaigns and ad-hoc requests as they arise
- Work closely with other marketing departments such as the EDM teams, Social, Creative and PR to ensure the merchandising is executed within our guidelines
- Ensuring new products are featured online in a timely manner and in line with expectations
- Attend and speak in cross-functional meetings representing the needs of the merchandising team
- Performing data analysis from a merchandising perspective to drive trending campaigns, and identify product opportunities through targeted customer and competitor research
- Managing reporting to understand over and underperforming product/ pages/ categories
- Coaching and guiding the merchandising team on executing campaigns.
Requirements
What you’ll bring to the role
- 2+ years of experience working with eCommerce organisation
- Experience understanding promotional material and being involved in the creative aspects of promotions
- An ability to review reports and analyse data and be able to articulate findings back to the business
- Excellent level of understanding of the merchandising lifecycle and coordinating sales
- An ability to work with various teams such as buyers, creative and marketplace managers effectively
- Strong technical ability to understand new systems and processes, and to use them effectively within your day to day
- High level interpersonal skills with the ability to influence outcomes in an organisation with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities in a changing environment
- MS Excel proficiency with high attention to detail
- Ability to prioritize tasks to meet deadlines and short time frames
Benefits
The rewards you’ll earn
We have a fantastic work environment and culture here at Catch. We provide our passionate people with:
- An organisation that is experiencing exponential growth
- A vibrant and passionate team who support and collaborate with each other
- An organisation that truly does what some call ‘work/life’ balance
- Employee benefits like discounted gym membership, free parking, access to the Kmart group employee benefits, free breakfast, free Wi-Fi, in house learning and development, monthly lunches plus loads more
About Catch
Back in 2006, Catch set out to shake up Australia’s online retail landscape. We’ve come a long way since!
We’re not just one of the country’s top eCommerce players, with a proven track record of growth, an award-winning digital platform and second to none customer experience offering. Behind the scenes, we’re a world-class team of creatives, strategists, developers and innovators, and we’re on the hunt for like-minded people to jump on board.
We don’t play by the rules. We push boundaries. We think big. We stay curious and driven. Together, we embrace challenges and learn new things. All this, for one purpose: to provide our customers with an amazing online shopping experience, every day.
And we’re just getting started
At Catch, we welcome all applications and screen them without attention to race, age, beliefs, sex, orientation, gender identity and disability.