Field Merchandising Manager

** This is a 12-month contract position that has potential to extend. Estimated start date is March 2025**

Our client in the tech industry is looking for a Merchandising Manager to work remotely. This person will be responsible for in store Merchandising planning, launching, communicating, executing, managing and reporting on their Wearables products in the US market as they maintain and update their current fixtures in the US market. This role plays an instrumental part in contributing to the vision for how they present ourselves in ensuring their customers can find, learn and experience products through physical retail. It is critical to have experience with merchandising within NA retailers such as: Walmart, Best Buy, Target, and more.

The primary role of the Field Merchandising Manager is to ensure that all field merchandising components including fixtures, demo units, graphics and display technologies are operating and functioning properly, as well as maintained to company standards. The role is execution oriented and is focused on planning, managing, and executing large new and existing programs and projects globally. The Field Merchandising Manager must be comfortable in a fast-paced environment with constant change executing multiple projects, while working collaboratively and communicating clearly across teams such as channel marketing, operations, sales, analytics, and external vendors.

• Prioritize large volumes of projects across thousands of retail doors, most with tight deadlines and extreme complexity, with some guidance from the Field Merchandising Lead.

• Partner closely with internal and external key partners on a regular basis to align and drive impact and results with the utmost efficiency and accuracy while moving fast.
• Act as liaison between regional 3rd party labor agencies, fixture display companies, channel marketing managers and field sales on any issues that come up in our retail partners.
• Manage 3rd party labor agencies to execute projects in brick and mortar retailers globally to ensure deliverables are met.
• Build highly detailed execution plans for a variety of initiatives across multiple product lines.
• Review instructions and execution for multiple projects simultaneously with a keen eye for detail.
• Understand display fixture production process and installation implementation processes to properly prepare workback schedules and deliverables to share cross functionally both internally and externally.
• Critical to understand various retailer 3rd party labor operations to drive best in class execution.
• Manage the reporting of the results of the field execution to internal stakeholders.
• Process all invoices and work closely with the Field Merchandising Lead to ensure all 3rd party labor projects are to budget.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience on either the brand side of retail in-store merchandising or the vendor side of retail in-store merchandising.
• Proven ability to understand the unique operating conditions within each retailer and how that impacts the planning and executing of the initiatives for all product lines.
• Must have experience sharing program / project updates across broad teams and organizations - transparency is key within the Meta culture and the ability to communicate, clear + concise cross functionally.
• Extremely high level of accuracy and attention to detail with ability to track and articulate the intricacies of complex fixture installations.
• Experience managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and external vendors.
• Excellent at finding the root cause of issues or gathering the necessary cross-functional members to find that cause or solution to an issue.
• Strong interpersonal skills, approachable and flexible.
• Experience with navigating various organizational environments where culture and structure vary.
• Excellent communicator, superb verbal, and written communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with retail partners and their guidelines / processes.
• Experience in planning large-scale executions and installations from concept stage through prototype and production stages.
• Experience in working in a highly cross-functional setting.
• Experience maintaining budgets and fiscal responsibility.
• Mobile Carrier and/or Specialty Retailer experience.

Benefits

Compensation Range:

$50-55/hr

** This pay range is Client-specific for the opening advertised. The identity of the Client will be disclosed if you are selected to move forward in the hiring process. **

Benefits:

• 75% of employee-only Medical & Dental coverage
• Vision - opt-in available
• 401k
• PTO
• Laptop
• Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, AD&D coverage
• Short-term Disability, Accident, Cancer/Critical Illness, Pet insurance - opt in available