Urban Outfitters Assistant Site Merchandiser

Urban Outfitters, Inc.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in fashion retail seeks an Assistant Site Merchandiser to support merchandising strategies, enhance customer experience, and drive sales. This role encompasses data-driven decision making, email marketing, site merchandising, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to optimize product prioritization and marketing messaging.

Benefits

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Generous employee discounts

Retirement savings

PTO

Qualifications

• 1-3 years eCommerce experience required.
• Strong affinity for current fashion and cultural trends.
• Intermediate Excel skills (working knowledge with pivot tables and v-lookups) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the email and site process for all relevant marketing campaigns.
• Conduct regular site audits and ensure best in class experience.
• Partner with the Email Marketing team to launch daily email campaigns.

Skills

Organization

Time Management

Communication

Problem Solving

Curiosity

Tools

Web Content Management Systems

Excel

Job description

Role Summary

Urban Outfitters is looking for an Assistant Site Merchandiser who will be responsible for supporting the team in driving merchandising strategies to drive sales and enhance customer experience. They will rely on data from site analytics as well as buying to help inform product prioritization for site, email, product assortments and curations and marketing messaging. Their responsibilities include cross-checking inventory, investments, and delivery dates to ensure proper flow of product messaging. This role also focuses on the execution of weekly and monthly marketing messages, as well as execution of site promos. This position requires strong collaborative and organizational skills. The Site Merchandiser needs to multi-task, problem-solve and be pro-active. Candidates should also have a strong knowledge and interest in current fashion and cultural trends.

Role Responsibilities

• Own the email and site process for all relevant marketing, including - creating and maintaining daily campaigns, tracking weekly selling and inventory on all featured styles, and acting as the point person to ensure the customer site experience is translated through linking and pinning
• Partner with Email Marketing team to launch daily email campaigns efficiently and effectively
• Support in the execution of total site strategy through attentive on-site merchandising, a creative perspective on trends, and business insights/recommendations from Analytics team
• Support divisional site merchandising via customer first strategy; optimizing product prioritization by performance and investment
• Partner with manager to understand site metrics for optimization relating to user behavior, product selling, customer profiles, and merchandising data.
• Create curated trend groups for site messaging and emails appropriate to customer that drive sales and support divisional priorities
• Attend weekly business meetings and find opportunities for reactionary messaging to support business needs and recap to larger team on learnings
• Conduct regular site audits and site QA, ensuring best in class experience; product selection, placement, and site navigation and elevating site issues and opportunities
• Prioritize multiple projects including regular seasonal drops, short term sprints, and long-term enhancements to ensure site merchandising timelines are met
• Stay informed about industry best practices, competitor activities, and emerging trends in eCommerce and website merchandising

Role Qualifications

• 1-3 years eCommerce experience
• Awareness of the industry and trend, specifically within ecommerce
• Experience using web content management systems preferred
• Excellent organizational, time management and communication skills
• Strong affinity for the product and brand
• Able to make timely decisions, anticipate problems, and provide creative solutions.
• Intermediate Excel skills (working knowledge with pivot tables and v-lookups)
• Ability to work on multiple projects, at multiple timelines, while maintaining an excellent
• Pro-active with new ideas and have a healthy curiosity

The Perks

URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits

EEO Statement

URBN celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression), religion, creed, age, physical or mental disability, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, citizenship, service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.