Merchant
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Job Description
Merchant driving flooring-category growth for IME, whose software and processes help retailers and contractors deliver installed home improvements. Managing vendors, promotions, partner performance, and category strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Own and manage the strategic direction for assigned product categories to drive sales growth, competitiveness, and customer satisfaction across partner networks
- Serve as the subject matter expert for assigned categories, emphasizing performance
- Analyze market trends, customer behavior, and competitor performance to inform category strategy
- Form a comprehensive promotional strategy sponsored by IME, retailers, manufacturers, and providers to drive market share
- Execute regular business reviews to assess performance, identify opportunities, and implement category improvements
- Act as the primary point of contact for manufacturers and large-scale enterprise partners
- Drive alignment and execution on strategic initiatives
- Maintain vendor and manufacturer relationships, managing day-to-day engagement while negotiating long-term strategies and agreements
- Provide strategic feedback on partner and category performance
- Ensure accurate and consistent category information across partner-facing and consumer-facing platforms
- Work with marketing teams to influence promotional strategy, visual merchandising, and creative campaigns
- Contribute to supplier evaluations, compliance tracking, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Attend trade shows, factory visits, and customer-facing events to maintain category expertise and identify new business opportunities
- Collaborate with Compliance, Licensing, Central Processing, Business Development, and Customer Solutions
- Perform other duties as required
Requirements:
- High School diploma or equivalent
- 3+ years of proven experience in Flooring home improvement categories
- Strong understanding of product lines, installation processes, and vendor/contractor coordination in flooring home improvement categories
- 3+ years of retail experience
- Professional demeanor
- Sound judgment and strong problem-solving ability
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to interact effectively with all levels of an organization, including executive and C-level
- Exceptional organization skills
- Ability to juggle multiple projects while maintaining efficiency and sharp attention to detail
- Ability to adapt to changing or multiple priorities
- Ability to travel at least 50% of the time
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
- Preferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Project Management, or related discipline
- Preferred: Knowledge of the home improvement industry
Benefits:
- 100% remote work environment
- Employer provided equipment
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health savings plan includes employer contribution to health savings account
- Medical and dental flexible spending accounts
- Company paid basic life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance
- 401K plan with employer match
- Company matches 100% of the first 4% of salary deferrals
- All contributions, including employer contributions, are 100% vested immediately
- Employee discount program for Electronics, Groceries, Travel, Entertainment, and more
- Employee assistance program
- Pay on demand
- Critical illness, hospital indemnity, group accident, and legal insurance
- Paid time off
- And more!
