Associate Merchandiser Performance

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>Company Overview</strong></h3> <p>Perry Ellis International, Inc. represents a diverse portfolio of lifestyle apparel brands. The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries owns and licenses nationally and with a brand portfolio of over 40 Brands domestically and internationally recognized brands including: Perry Ellis®, Original Penguin® by Munsingwear®, Laundry by Shelli Segal®, Rafaella®, Cubavera®, Ben Hogan®, Savane®, Grand Slam®, John Henry®, Manhattan®, Axist® and Farah®. The Company enhances its roster of brands by licensing trademarks from third parties, including: Nike®&nbsp; for swimwear, and Callaway®, PGA TOUR®, and Jack Nicklaus® for golf apparel.</p></div><div> <p><strong>SUMMARY:</strong></p> <p><br>The Associate Merchandiser Performance Apparel &amp; Swim Gear, in steering the product creation process from concept to finished goods. Act as a critical support system by maintaining PLM system integrity, tracking milestones, and ensuring that pricing, brand positioning, and performance metrics are met before production approval.</p> <p><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Take on accountability for a classification or product category for the entire product life cycle.</li> <li>Work closely with cross-functional partners to ensure timely execution of key product management milestones is met within the seasonal end-to-end calendar.</li> <li>Participates in merchandising strategies and seasonal line plans, product briefs, and roadmaps to build profitable assortments that will meet business objectives and financial goals.</li> <li>Assist with conducting global market landscape research and analysis to identify new opportunities for Nike Swim to compete and create value for consumers, retailers, distributors, and other stakeholders. Leverage internal and external data sources to develop an intimate understanding of the consumer and the market space to drive and deliver superior results.</li> <li>Collaborate with design, product development, technical design, and sourcing to finalize pricing and margins with sales and planning.</li> <li>Interface with all functional areas of the business (design, sales, sourcing, marketing) to maintain successful workflow.</li> <li>Learn to analyze retail sales with the planning and design teams to identify opportunities and best selling items.</li> <li>Support the Merchandising team in all related needs and market preparation.</li> <li>Maintain all merchandising data entry files and communication (merch plan, competitive snapshots, change notices, costing sheets, detailed product information, marketing updates; etc).</li> <li>Keep all necessary internal &amp; external partners up to date with