Careers
Only Natural Pet Store offers a range of career opportunities in a dynamic,
fast-paced environment. If you have a passion for what we're doing and are
motivated and willing to work hard, then we want to hear from you. We offer a
fun, easy going work environment that welcomes dogs. We're looking for positive
professionals of all experience levels to join our sharp, energetic and growing
team.
Manager, Online Merchandising
The Manager of Online Merchandising will work in collaboration with the VP,
Online Marketing to establish an integrated merchandise strategy to support both
the Website and catalog, and for implementing that strategy to achieve margin &
profitability goals. This position will also manage multiple vendor
relationships; new vendor and product set up, our co-op marketing program, and
will work closely with Marketing to align margin & merchandise goals to achieve
success through planning and implementing various promotions through all of our
marketing channels.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead all merchandising and merchandise marketing activities for the Web
and Catalog
- Collaborate with group VP to develop and deploy the Direct merchandise
strategy, including customer acquisition & retention efforts, and strategic
vendor optimization
- Ongoing category management and planning, including at product and SKU
level
- Perform category pricing analysis through competitive research
- Develop and provide regular competitive analysis
- Contribute to online navigation optimization to improve on path to
product, product display, and optimization of onsite search returns for
users
- Identify trends in site usage and make appropriate recommendations
- Manage multiple internal cross functional relationships: Purchasing,
product development, Customer Service, and Warehouse
Qualifications:
- 2+ years online merchandising experience with a Direct [online and
catalog] retailer multi channel retail experience a plus
- Demonstrated ability to plan, develop and execute successful online
merchandising initiatives
- Ability to extract, format and make actionable web analytics and
performance data across key internal departments/partners
- Strong working knowledge of online analytics Google Analytics,
Coremetrics, Webtrends, etc.
- Strong working knowledge of parametric search tools Endeca, Omniture,
etc.
- Front end website experience merchandising products and categories
- Proficiency in use and management of back end product maintenance
systems
- Ability to coordinate multiple work efforts and work well cross
functionally
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
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