Brand & Product Strategy Merchandiser

BDA, LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 81,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Robust PTO

Vacation

Paid volunteer day

Holidays and Summer Fridays

Benefits

401k

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health and financial wellness

Professional development

Job summary

BDA, LLC is seeking a Merchandiser to own creative product lifecycles, translating brand strategy and market trends into compelling, market-ready assortments. The role requires a strong eye for detail, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to manage multiple projects from concept to launch.

The ideal candidate has a minimum of 3 years in retail buying, product development, merchandising, or planning, plus proficiency in MS Office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Merchandising, Buying, Marketing preferred, or equivalent combination of work and experience.
• Minimum 3 years of retail buying, product development, merchandising or planning experience.
• Fluency in MS Office suite including Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Custom cut and sew experience a plus.
• Experience developing custom hard goods/soft goods is a plus.
• Smartsheet experience a plus.
• PLM/Oracle experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Assortment Analysis meetings and contribute to pre-assortment strategy discussion.
• Serve as a brand steward by developing deep knowledge of client guidelines, target audience, and aesthetic standards.
• Drive creative direction for graphics, embellishments, and packaging in partnership with internal design teams and external vendors.
• Ensure all art assets, decoration methods, labeling, and product details align with brand standards.
• Confidently present and articulate product concepts and creative rationale to internal and external teams influencing decision making.
• Ability to take current/future trends and translate into creative, market relevant product.
• Negotiate, build and source strategic and profitable product assortments.
• Select color standards within seasonal color stories.
• Review tech packs and lab dips for accuracy with design team and communicate approvals.
• Attend fit reviews for pre-production and TOP samples and communicate approvals or comments for updates.
• Ship development samples to client for review and approval.
• Demonstrate analytical and critical thinking and how to apply to the business.
• Run weekly merchandise status calls with clients and internal WIP meetings as needed.
• Share productivity of assortment with accounts and internal partners.
• Oversee day-to-day activities for product development ensuring on time launches.
• Responsible for areas including compliance, quality, and operational metrics.
• Negotiate buying terms with suppliers (price, quantity, quality, delivery, etc.).
• Build/update product status trackers for internal/external view and ongoing management of the Assortment Plan document.

Skills

Merchandising strategy

Product development

Retail buying

Cross-functional collaboration

MS Office (Excel)

Education

Bachelor’s in Merchandising/Buying/Marketing

Tools

Smartsheet

PLM/Oracle

Job description

BDA, LLC is seeking a Merchandiser to own creative product lifecycles, translating brand strategy and market trends into compelling, market-ready assortments. The role requires a strong eye for detail, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to manage multiple projects from concept to launch.

The ideal candidate has a minimum of 3 years in retail buying, product development, merchandising, or planning, plus proficiency in MS Office.