Field Merchandising Manager

Brainrider is a marketing and creative agency with teams in Menlo Park/San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, London, and Toronto. We work with ambitious marketers, in-house creative teams, and internal agencies to do more, by filling capability and capacity gaps and enabling them to execute their marketing and creative at scale.  

We believe collaboration is at its best when we feel at home, so we work as a team — plain and simple. Whether we’re brainstorming better marketing ideas for our clients, or pushing the gas to meet a tight deadline, it all happens with adaptability, optimism, and teamwork. 

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The Role

Job Title: Field Merchandising Manager

Length: 12 months

Location: Remote

Hourly Pay Range: $40-45

Brainrider is seeking a Field Merchandising Manager to join our client embedded team.  You will be responsible for in store Merchandising planning, launching, communicating, executing, managing and reporting on our client's Wearables products in the US market. This role plays an instrumental part in contributing to the vision for how they present themselves 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. You 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.

What you'll do

• 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

What you'll bring

• 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 company 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
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