Senior Localized Assortment Strategist

Recreational Equipment, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 85,400 - 136,700; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee discount

Health benefits

Retirement savings plan

Accrued time off

Job summary

REI Co-op in Seattle is seeking a Location Analytics professional to develop location attribution, clustering, and space planning solutions for locally relevant assortments across the retail fleet.

The role uses store location, customer, product and sales data to inform assortment size, seasonal audits and space-based recommendations, aligning with partners across Merchandising, Planning, Analytics and Strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Merchandising or relevant field.
• 3–5 years of merchandising, planning, analytics, or related experience involving customer and product trend analysis.
• Proficiency in MS Office suite including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel; advanced SQL and Snowflake for data modeling considered a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develops processes, tools and location attribution inputs that support clustering, space planning and assortment decisions across the existing retail fleet, using attributes such as store location, activity, climate, customer profile, demographics, skill level and value tier.
• Builds location assortment solutions that improve local relevance and productivity; incorporates customer, product, sales, space and location insights while gaining alignment with key business partners.
• Defines and applies productivity measures that inform assortment size, space allocation and location-based recommendations across stores.
• Translates productivity trends, category performance, regional affinity, customer insights and location attributes into recommendations that influence assortment breadth, depth and space decisions.
• Supports seasonal Category Management audits by evaluating assortment size, space and location attribute opportunities and helping prioritize recommended actions.
• Measures the effectiveness of location-based assortment and attribution initiatives; communicates results, insights and recommendations to improve future planning decisions.
• Builds effective partnerships with cross-divisional stakeholders, including Merchandising product and planning teams, Physical Place/Visual Merchandising, Analytics, Retail and Strategy.

Skills

MS Office proficiency

SQL

Snowflake

Excel (advanced)

Analytical modeling

Clustering

Location attribution

Customer segmentation

Space productivity analysis

Decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Merchandising or relevant field

Tools

Snowflake

SQL

Excel

Job description

REI Co-op in Seattle is seeking a Location Analytics professional to develop location attribution, clustering, and space planning solutions for locally relevant assortments across the retail fleet.

The role uses store location, customer, product and sales data to inform assortment size, seasonal audits and space-based recommendations, aligning with partners across Merchandising, Planning, Analytics and Strategy.