Job Description

We are seeking a passionate and strategic merchandising professional to join Balsam Hill as a Merchant. In this impactful role you will define and execute product assortment plans for key merchandising categories driving sales and margin growth across our multichannel platform. Partnering with crossfunctional teams and indirect partners you will play a pivotal role in shaping Balsam Hills product strategy across channels and ensuring we continue to deliver exceptional products that bring joy to our customers.

This fulltime position reports to the VP of Merchandising for Growth and Strategy and is expected to work in a hybrid model from our Burlingame and Redwood City offices.

What youll do:

• Brand & Product Strategy
  • Understand market and competition globally to inform global assortment needs collaborating with channel and market partners
  • Monitor competitor assortment offerings and capture emerging trends
  • Brief and execute needs for seasonal product direction and category opportunities
  • Maintain assortment plans
  • Recommend SKU development and growth/decline categories
  • Create assortments recommendations by channel
  • Understand and use customer filters to ensure product and strategies meet the needs of the customer
• Category Management
  • Own key merchandising categories and support financial performance
  • Monitor multichannel performance with rigorous analytics
  • Monitor catalog performance and productivity to recommend and identify opportunities
  • Partner create and share out product assortment direction and detail with internal partners and with accounts
  • Work with Inventory Planning to optimize profitability
  • Provide seasonal assortment plans maximizing sales profits and budget (OTB)
  • Travel to trade shows and vendors to source products and identify opportunities
• CrossFunctional Collaboration
  • Build constructive relationships across departments
  • Ensure processes are followed and deadlines are met
  • Communicate effectively to bring products to life from concept through launch

What you bring to the table:

• 5 years of buying/merchandising experience in home or seasonal dcor preferred
• Strong understanding of catalog webbased consumer behavior and omnichannel retail principles
• Bachelors degree preferred
• Experience in private label development and brand positioning
• Proven track record in buying team collaboration and project management
• Strong retail math and analytical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel PowerPoint and Outlook
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail
• Deadlinedriven and resultsoriented
• Flexible/adaptable with a startup mindset
• Strong business ownership and decisionmaking skills
• Ability to build effective relationships across departments
• Creative problemsolving capabilities

About Us: Balsam Brands is a global eCommerce retailer with roots in holiday and home dcor. We strive for excellence in everything we do and present a unique opportunity for those seeking to have a meaningful impact in a peoplefirst company that values relationship building authenticity and doing the right thing. We have steadily growing teams in Boise the Bay Area Dublin and the Philippines.

The companys mission is to create joy together. We empower our team and partners to love what they do provide products and experiences that inspire meaningful moments with family and friends and give back to our families and communities in impactful ways. When you join Balsam Brands youll find a culture of caring people doing challenging work and building a welcoming workplace.

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At Balsam Brands we strive to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package. For permanent fulltime team members our current package includes:

• Competitive compensation including a cashbased incentive plan; salary is reviewed yearly and may be adjusted as part of the normal compensation review process
• Comprehensive Medical Dental and Vision coverage with 100% of monthly premiums covered for team members and 85% employerpaid premiums for other coverage tiers that include dependents
• Up to $2000 annual funding toward HSA accounts
• Medical transit dependent care FSA
• Infertility coverage offered on all medical plans
• Generous parental leave program and flexible return options
• Companypaid life and AD&D insurance
• Companypaid short and longterm disability insurance
• 401(k) with dollarfordollar company match up to $4000 per calendar year
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and other mental health and wellness perks
• Paid holidays annual shutdown week PTO and volunteer timeoff (VTO) packages
• Paid 5week sabbatical leave after 10 years of employment
• Annual continuous learning benefit up to $1000 per person per fiscal year
• Up to $300 flexible reimbursement to support setup of new team members workfromhome environment
• Generous team member merchandise discount
• Valuable extras: identity theft protection subsidized parking monthly wellness pet insurance accident & critical illness insurance

The base pay range for this position is: $99000 to $124000. Where an individual falls within that range will vary based on several factors including geographic location and may vary depending on candidate qualifications and experience applicable skills and other jobrelated factors. We benchmark our pay ranges against current external data sources and regularly review compensation for our team members. Balsam Brands is committed to providing our team members with an internally fair externally competitive and fiscally prudent total compensation package administered in a simple and consistent manner.

At Balsam Brands we strive to build a diverse equitable and inclusive team to fulfill our purpose to create joy together. Balsam Brands is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from all backgrounds ages abilities and experiences to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race ethnicity religion national origin citizenship marital or family status disability sexual orientation gender identity or expression pregnancy or caregiver status veteran status or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

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Additional Information :

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime

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