Job Title: Junior Web Merchandiser, JD Sports

Location: Vancouver, BC

Work Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: 45-55k

The Role:

JD Sports is looking to welcome a Junior Web Merchandiser to our growing team. This merchandiser is supporting the optimization of the online curation and promotion of merchandise across JD Sports' ecommerce platforms.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Responsible for merchandising and placement of products featured on home and landing pages, as well as categorizing products within navigation structure.
• With the Senior Web Merchandisers, ensure the best product placement and content to increase sales.
• Ensure customer experience is seamless throughout the funnel by consistently performing a series of checks of product pages, category pages, cross-sells, search keywords, navigational elements, customer feedback, and more.
• Assists in ensuring overall online product presentation, including photography, copy content and other pertinent information is cohesive with the brands’ overall merchandising strategy.
• Assists in managing the website content calendar for all product categories, focusing on new launches, inventory availability, and marketing initiatives.
• Support in execution of curated category landing pages to support editorial features and highlights to reinforce the brand's relevance and point of view.
• Leverages web analytics to understand performance of and customer interaction with site content, such as categories, featured placements (including promotions/sales) and general online shopping experiences to identify business opportunities and risks.
• Assesses the competitive landscape by examining merchandising strategies of key competitors and best-in-class online retailers to understand emerging online trends and recommend changes to the online category strategy
• Continually seeks to improve the online experience by researching and staying abreast of new and innovative online solutions and capabilities; key competitor actions; industry trends and emerging customer and market needs.
• Ensure pricing on our brand sites is accurate and promotional pricing is coordinated with internal teams.
• Leverage all possible cross-selling techniques to increase average order size.

Qualifications:

• 1-2 years' experience in a similar role.
• Prior E-Commerce experience required.
• E-Commerce platform experience; Shopify preferred.
• Knowledge of Algolia, Dynamic Yield, or similar merchandising, personalization, and testing platforms
• Superior time-management and prioritization skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and ability to follow-up on tasks without reminders.
• Strong eye for curating product assortments that are visually compelling and on trend.
• Experienced visual merchandiser with strong background in maximizing conversions and cross-selling, paired with an innate sense of luxury retail
• Effective analytical, critical thinking and quantitative problem solving abilities
• Excellent proofreading skills and grammar skills. Strong interpersonal, verbal and written skills

The Perks:

To match our culture, focused on creativity, innovation and love for fashion, we offer our employees unique benefits such as product discounts, learning and development allowance & social events!