Hybrid Retail Merchandiser & Forecasting Specialist

Hallmark Cards; United States; Hybrid; USD 36.000 - 49.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid working—office + home

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Health cashback scheme

Pension benefit

Close to transport and free onsite-par

Positive work/life balance culture

Zusammenfassung

Hallmark Cards seeks a Retail Merchandiser to drive planning, forecasting and trading insights for a major customer account. You’ll collaborate with Commercial, Product, Finance, Supply and Data & Analytics to deliver accurate forecasts and actionable trading recommendations that support sales growth.

You’ll own seasonal and everyday product-range planning, manage annual plans and budgets, and deliver robust risk assessments and contingency actions.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in merchandising, planning, forecasting or similar analytical role within retail, supplier or FMCG environment.
• Excellent Excel, analytical and numerical skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor messages for different audiences.
• Capability to build relationships and work with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong commercial awareness and the confidence to influence decisions through data and insight.

Aufgaben

• Take ownership of planning, forecasting and trading activity across designated seasonal and everyday product ranges.
• Manage account planning processes, including annual plans, customer budgets, category plans and range forecasts in partnership with Product & Range teams.
• Ensure plans are supported by robust assumptions, risk assessments and contingency actions.
• Deliver consistency and accuracy across forecasting and planning activities at account, category and product level.
• Identify stock requirements to support customer plans while minimising commercial risk.
• Produce trading analysis highlighting opportunities, risks and recommended actions.
• Partner with Product & Range teams to provide analysis and insight for product range optimisation.
• Build cross-functional relationships to ensure plans and activities are delivered effectively.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and wider business projects.

Kenntnisse

Analytical thinking

Numerical skills

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Influence decisions

Organisational skills

Tools

Excel

Jobbeschreibung

Hallmark Cards seeks a Retail Merchandiser to drive planning, forecasting and trading insights for a major customer account. You’ll collaborate with Commercial, Product, Finance, Supply and Data & Analytics to deliver accurate forecasts and actionable trading recommendations that support sales growth.

You’ll own seasonal and everyday product-range planning, manage annual plans and budgets, and deliver robust risk assessments and contingency actions.