Associate Merchant – Prepared Foods

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🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $69k - $91k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🟡 Mid-level

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BJ's Wholesale Club

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🛒 Retail

👥 B2C

Retail • B2C

BJ's Wholesale Club is a membership-only retail chain focusing on delivering unbeatable value and outstanding service to its members. The company emphasizes a culture that supports inclusivity and career growth, offering roles in club operations, distribution centers, corporate settings, and specific departments like BJ's Optical. BJ's Wholesale Club is known for providing substantial discounts and a wide range of products, aiming to add value to its members' shopping experiences.

📋 Description

• Collaborates on the development of sales and margin plans and sales forecasts for assigned categories. • Manages and controls open-to-buy positioning and buys merchandise for assigned categories. • Participates in negotiations directly with vendors on merchandise pricing, quantity, delivery and terms. • Identifies and implements merchandise packaging and presentation techniques that enhance productivity and execution. • Objectively assesses merchandise mix based on consumer trends and business needs to develop planograms and to provide recommendations on assortments. • Reviews advertising and promotion analytics to evaluate performance, refine merchandise plans and suggest adjustments to strategy. • Responsible for the implementation of category pricing strategy and executes exit strategies on slow selling items. • Assesses pricing based on knowledge of competitive landscape, sales and margin objectives, and price indexing and targets. • Researches competitive landscape and consumer trends to ensure alignment with strategy. • Identifies merchandising risks and opportunities and presents recommendations. • Provides effective and supportive direction and guidance to Merchant Assistants. • Performs other duties as assigned.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or operations related field • 2-5 years of professional merchandising or retail operations experience • Knowledge of vendor negotiation techniques • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills • Excellent written and oral communication skills • Ability to multi-task and work independently in a fast-paced environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Weekly Pay: Get paid every week so that you can manage your money on your terms. • Free BJ’s Memberships: Enjoy a complimentary The Club Card Membership, plus a free Supplemental Membership for someone in your household.* • Generous Paid Time Off: Take the time you need with vacation, personal, sick days, holidays, bereavement, and jury duty leave.* • Flexible and Affordable Health Benefits: Choose from three medical plans, and access optional dental, vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), and flexible spending account options to fit your lifestyle.* • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: Build your financial future with a company match (available to team members 18 and older).* • Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Accumulate funds through after-tax payroll deductions that can be used to purchase shares of BJ’s common stock at a 15% discount.*