AllModern, Associate Merchandise Coordinator

Specialty Retail Brands (AllModern, Birch Lane, Joss & Main)

Wayfair’s Specialty Retail Brands (AllModern, Birch Lane, Joss & Main) target the $60B specialty furniture market and are incremental to Wayfair LLC.  These brands provide a tightly curated assortment of highly stylish and elevated quality products for the style-obsessed specialty customer.  

What You'll Do

In the Associate role you will support merchandise team functions & focus on development of under penetrated categories for one of the Specialty Retail Brands. As the coordinator, you will be responsible for ensuring merchandising operational excellence in order to deliver best in class presentation of our assortment to our customers, as well as collaborating with our supplier partners and internal stakeholders to drive our brand identity across all channels.

• Drive and improve specialty experience on site and set up new launches for success using our “perfect sku” recipe. Work cross functionally with a variety of teams in order to ensure successful execution, with strong partnership to our  Premium Product Merchandising Specialist 
• Challenge the status quo and always be on the lookout for ways to streamline and improve the efficiency of existing processes while effectively managing multiple stakeholders
• Support and maintain relationships with key suppliers to deliver on category assortment needs and inclusion in Wayfair programs, such as major shopping holidays, incident rate improvements, availability, and supplier imagery
• Analyzing core business KPI’s and partnering closely with cross-functional teams on inventory, merchandising, marketing, and profit management to drive business results
• Support market research opportunities for category growth, utilizing competitive analysis and internal performance monitoring as data points
• Drive strategies for categories and classes of business that are growth opportunities (ie but not limited to: youth, nursery, storage & organization, pet, renovation)
• Manage photoshoot sample requests for 2D shoots (bi-monthly) and liaison with creative team on sample strategic initiatives to maximize ROI of shoots and sample requests with suppliers
• Partner with concept and product insights team on sample library organization
• Support seasonal tradeshow team initiatives
• Attending supplier meetings and trade shows (virtually and/or in person) as needed

What You'll Need

• ~1+ years of experience within an e-commerce or corporate retail organization preferred. Preferably experience in buying/retail merchandising or retail home furnishing planning. 
• A strong interest in building a career in buying and/or supplier relationship management
• A passion or knowledge of industry trends, style and product design 
• Ability to understand a brand vision, aesthetic, and customer base and how to bring that to life through the product assortment and operational excellence
• Ability to cut data and think critically about the business; ability to understand and interpret sales and performance trends and apply learning to the business  
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and the ability to influence cross-functionally
• A personable and energetic communicator, eager to build relationships with new business partners - both internally and externally
• Ability to communicate and feel comfortable speaking directly with C-suite level suppliers from large companies
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once; you don’t miss the details and can work autonomously and with partners to drive projects and tasks to completion 
• Ability to “hit the ground running” – a self-starter capable of achieving specific target goals