About the Role & Team:

"We make magic"! The Disney Consumer Products (DCP) team is responsible for creating, developing, and bringing to life Disney merchandise across Disney Parks, Disney Stores, shopDisney, and licensed products sold all across the world.

As the DCP Merchandise Buying Coordinator, you will support categories or entire teams, assist with the strategy plan, and coordinate the timeline and work flow across their assigned areas to drive a quarterly product strategy, product line strategy, and assortment curation for distribution. A successful candidate exhibits strong organization, proof reading, prioritization and communication skills as well as a proficiency in all merchandise systems and processes. This position will report to the Merchandise Buying Manager.

What You Will Do:

• Lead the day to day activities in maintaining assortment by category across brands and assist in curating an authentic assortment that meets the financial goals for all channels of distribution

• Attend cross functional team meetings to assist with the input/output of communication

• Provide support for key achievement meetings with the development of presentation decks, briefs, recaps, and assembling input from key partners

• Develop effective partnerships across The Walt Disney Company

• Track Purchase Order progress from shipping to arrival on Disney property

• Work in close partnership with vendors, Product Integrity, all logistical Operations, onboarding, pricing, international trade finance, and other international logistics

• Assist suppliers with all aspects of navigating business with Disney

• Written and verbal communication with specific suppliers and a variety of Disney partners

• Item setups ensuring accuracy of information

Merchandising Strategies and Collaboration for Parks specific activations:

• Assist the Merchandise Buying Manager in building product strategies that are designed for a fully immersive space through well-executed activations that maximize capture within the attraction while building equity and desire for future interaction with products in our unique specialty retail environment

• Assist in handling category/collection/item level product strategy that supports the immersive experiences

• Schedule and coordination of fragrance representative calendars and other processes

• Assist with various merchandising team projects as required

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Experience in product merchandising, specialty retail & product assortment strategy desired

• Proven passion for brand retail, including consumer and product trends

• Collaboration skills, ability to establish relationships and with internal and external partners

• Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills with ability to prioritize workload and handle multiple projects

• Strategic problem solver with the ability to drive execution against a plan

• High level attention to detail, proofreading skills, proactive, with strong follow through skills

• Demonstrated personal initiative skills in the workplace, with willingness to learn new skills and processes

• Flexible and adaptable with an ability to meet deadlines

• Demonstrated positive attitude with the ability to be responsive to feedback and pivot based on changing organization priorities

• Ability to understand key merchandise metrics and business drivers

• Strong analytical and math skills

• Proficiency in basic computer functions necessary to operate in a Windows environment and other technologies, including Google Docs, SharePoint, and Product Life Management (PLM)

Preferred Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Key relationships:

• Merchandising Managers, Planning, Location Strategy, Visual Merchandising, POM, Legal/Business Affairs, Product Integrity, Logistics, Location Proprietor and Managers, and Corporate Alliance

Benefits and Perks: Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

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