Category Assistant, Fashion - DFS9112905

Job Description

The Category Assistant is supporting our Merchandising and Planning teams in their daily business and takes part in projects to improve how the category works together. He/she will work in one of our brand teams and will support the management of Promotions & Margins, as well as Orders & Inventory.

Key Responsibilities:

• Management of Purchase Orders
• Maintenance/Tracking
• Coordination with brand partners and DFS logistics team
• Support in all Pricing-related topics, particularly for monthly promotional activities
• Creation of Price Changes and Promotions in system
• Follow-up on execution
• Support Revenue Management with Vendor Support agreements
• Creation and tracking of rebates
• Follow-up with brand partners
• Maintenance of relevant category reports
• Management of return logistics and other merchandising topics with brand partners
• Support of ad-hoc and improvement projects

Key Requirements:

• College or University Degree preferred or equivalent work experience
• Previous merchandising and/or planning and/or Shared Services Center Preferred
• Proficient in MS Excel, MS Word and PowerPoint
• Comfort with systems
• Excellent at problem solving and handling multiple priorities
• Detail-oriented and analytical
• Action Oriented
• Customer Focus (internal customer) and Interpersonal Savvy