Merchandising & Category Strategy Expert

Turing; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Turing is seeking a Merchandising & Category Management SME to design, evaluate, and calibrate high-fidelity retail tasks, scenarios, and benchmark solutions. The role supports expert contributor or senior reviewer tracks within our evaluation pods and focuses on merchandising fundamentals and category planning.

You will author benchmark tasks, apply scoring rubrics, calibrate with peers, and model commercial metrics like GMROI, open-to-buy, inventory turnover, and promotions.

Qualifications

• 3–15 years of hands-on experience in retail merchandising, buying, category management, or inventory allocation.
• Assortment architecture, product allocation, and merchandise financial planning expertise.
• Experience creating assortment plans, visual planograms, and promotional calendars.
• Knowledge of GMROI, turn, markdowns, margin impact, and weeks of supply.
• Ability to articulate clear solution rationales and step-by-step methodologies in writing.

Responsibilities

• Benchmark Task Authoring: design realistic, high-difficulty retail exercises, assortment planning scenarios, promotional strategy models, and planogram challenges with gold-standard solution sets.
• Rubric Application & Scoring: apply evaluation rubrics established by the Functional SME Lead to systematically assess and score retail planning submissions.
• Review & Calibration: participate in peer calibration sessions, incorporate structured feedback, iterate on task designs, and help resolve edge cases in retail math or allocation logic.
• Commercial Modeling: build and evaluate scenarios incorporating core retail KPIs, including sell-through rates, GMROI, open-to-buy (OTB), margin mix, and inventory turnover.

Skills

Retail merchandising

Category management

GMROI analysis

Planograms

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Turing is seeking a Merchandising & Category Management SME to design, evaluate, and calibrate high-fidelity retail tasks, scenarios, and benchmark solutions. The role supports expert contributor or senior reviewer tracks within our evaluation pods and focuses on merchandising fundamentals and category planning.

You will author benchmark tasks, apply scoring rubrics, calibrate with peers, and model commercial metrics like GMROI, open-to-buy, inventory turnover, and promotions.