Our Customer’s mission is to create groundbreaking sport innovations, by making their products more sustainable, building a creative and diverse global team, and making a positive impact in communities where we live and work. Their purpose is to bring inspiration and innovation to unite the world through sport to create a healthy planet, active communities, and an equal playing field for all.
We are seeking a Brand Merchandising Specialist on a contract basis to support our customer's ongoing business needs. The nature of the work is focused on consumer insights, assortment planning, Go to Market, and product management activities. This role is onsite in Beaverton, OR.
What You'll Do

• Manage product assortment strategies that enable segmentation and differentiation to deliver a consumer-centered global product offering
• Continuously manage and maintain all seasonal tools and assortments
• Development and maintaining of key relationships among cross-functional teammates, ensuring alignment and collaboration at all key gates and dates
• Analyze data and insights in order to support the business throughout the product calendar
• Ensure merchandised assortments allow appropriate segmentation, deliver differentiation of the market place and drive incremental growth
• Finalize all category assortment plans and gain resolution against issues on flow, pricing and distribution decisions
• Work to ensure assortment category vision is driven to the retail floor and that end state is profitable consumer right assortments
• Optimize the planning and placement of products in the appropriate format

Must haves

• Bachelors Degree and minimum of 2-4 years directly relevant work experience
• Experience with Tableau; MS Office Suite (Excel), and MMX
• Aptitude for data and analysis – including data capture, reporting, analysis and practical application
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines at once, across a variety of stakeholders
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, including presentations to various cross-functional partners
• Curiosity and comfort with independently seeking out information needed to make decisions and meet goals

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.