Senior Associate Merchant (Remote)

The Sr. Associate Merchant associate leverages consumer insights markets trends and new product development to build curated customer driven assortments and service solutions. This position partners closely with key stakeholders to understand the division strategies and financial goals based on the strategic category plan to ensure that overall product development and direction delivers instore catalog and online programs that are competitive and differentiated.

This role works with suppliers to set up new items and maintain item integrity content and web attributes. It will also partner crossfunctionally to ensure we are providing customer centric solutions and improving product mix and shopping experience. This role is tasked with optimizing assortments and catalogs to maximize trade up solutions microassortments and identify gaps by customer vertical/segment. It will also maintain cross reference files good/better/best assortments and upsell/cross sell. This role will be provided the opportunity to fully manage and develop the strategy for a subcategory.

This role requires a thought leader that will bring an independent perspective while effectively building collaborative solutions with key stakeholders across the company. Partnering with content ecommerce inventory management private brand and pricing and promotion teams this position has decision making authority within scope of work and categories assigned.

This role requires a comprehensive understanding of all current and future paths to purchase necessitating knowledge of key drivers including:

• Retail store format optimization and brick & mortar shopping experience
• Web dynamics digital marketing impacts and mobile experience
• Contract B2B sales motion pricing strategies and vertical / customer segmentation

Primary Responsibilities:

• Performs market research to gain an indepth knowledge of products vendor capabilities industry trends and emerging innovation.
• Partners with Private Brand to optimize the portfolio to offer unique value to our customers through new development and supplier sourcing opportunities.
• Optimizes the product and services portfolio to drive consumer demand market share sales and profitability grounded in market and consumer understanding.
• Manages assortment of products and services determining optimal product mix based on category goals performance and designated category roles.
• Works with crossfunctional partners to ensure exceptional execution of assortment strategies.
• Responsible to identify and initiate vendor setup and maintenance working with Merchandising Operations.
• Responsible for overseeing item integrity including new item set up content and web attributes with support teams.
• Works with suppliers to develop new product assortments by vertical and segment and set up new items and maintain item integrity content and web attributes.
• Ensures Web and catalog execution.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors Degree (B.A/B.S) in Business Merchandising Operations.
• 57 years experience (3 years progressive merchandising plus other equivalent related experience).
• Minimum 3 years merchandising experience required.
• Finance marketing product development procurement services and operations background is preferred.
• Strong leader with strategic business management skills who can appropriately shift between tactical and strategic perspectives.
• Will need to be results oriented seek empowerment inquisitive comfortable with ambiguity and possess versatile communication styles.
• Crossfunctional strategic vision a willingness to see business opportunities from the perspective of the whole company as opposed to solely the perspective of his/her functional area

This role will require travel to the candidates local Office Depot stores multiple times a month plus quarterly travel to HQ in Boca Raton FL.

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About The ODP Corporation
The ODP Corporation (NASDAQ:ODP) is a leading provider of products and services through an integrated businesstobusiness (B2B) distribution platform and omnichannel presence which includes worldclass supply chain and distribution operations dedicated sales professionals online presence and a network of Office Depot and OfficeMax retail stores. Through its operating companies Office Depot LLC; ODP Business Solutions LLC; and Veyer LLC The ODP Corporation empowers every business professional and consumer to achieve more every day.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by associates assigned to this classification and are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of associates so classified. Other duties may be assigned.

Pay Benefits & Work Schedule

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Application Deadline

The job posting will remain open for a minimum of 3 days and will expire once the position has been filled.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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