Merchandising Assistant

Company: Dormify
Location: New York
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

Dormify is the leading college lifestyle marketplace and brand for dorm decor and furnishings focused on making the transition to college life easy, fun, and convenient. Dormify defines today's trends and innovation for small-space living and delivers the broadest assortment at all price points for an engaged, loyal Gen Z audience. - The Dormify Buying/Merchandising team is responsible for developing and managing the right product assortment to drive sales, inventory, and profit objectives. The team operates as a central hub that interacts with nearly all cross-functional teams within the organization, but most closely partners with the design, sourcing, planning + distribution, visual, and marketing teams to develop and market the assortment of products. - The Merchandising Assistant will work directly with the merchant team to support purchase order creation, assortment planning documents, product information spreadsheets, - processing, receiving, shipping, storing and tracking of merchandise samples. - Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Provide administrative support to Buying organization as requested
• Run shipping reports and check all deliveries to ensure timely shipment of goods.
• Prepare purchase orders, complete order entry spreadsheets, and communicate with POE team/vendor for each DMM area.
• Prepare product upload spreadsheets
• Develop full understanding of the process, divisional order tracking, and follow up as necessary with outside vendors for shipment, audit orders and notify Buyers for any adjustment required.
• Coordinate sample management process, i.e., tagging samples upon receipts, storing then, keeping track of samples that are providing to Advertising, request samples as needed, organizing samples About You: Your organizational and data management skills will be critical in helping keep precise records, maintaining organized sample storage areas, and providing overall support to the Merchandising team in order to help achieve our goal to provide our customers with merchandise they'll love! Additional role requirements include:
  • Candidates must have a high school diploma
  • College degree preferred in Fashion Merchandising or related
  • Proficiency in all Microsoft Office programs is required including Excel, Outlook, Word and PowerPoint
  • You'll have to have great interpersonal communication skills as you correspond with fashion industry leaders and well-known brands to arrange the movement of a wide range of goods to and from our corporate offices. This is a hybrid role, located in New York. Rate: $15-$20

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