Omaze raises funds and awareness for charities by offering the chance to win once-in-a-lifetime experiences and dream-come-true prizes. We've offered everything from a double date with John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, to a walk-on role in Star Wars, to a brand new customized Mercedes Benz sprinter van. We've given over $130M to charities around the world, from donors in 180 countries. Our vision is to be the first for-profit company to give $1B to charity in a single year, and we’re building our team of dedicated and passionate people to help us get there. That’s where you come in!

ROLE OVERVIEW:

The Merchandising Coordinator will play an important role on the Merchandising team to help to craft the direction of the Omaze e-commerce portfolio of incredible experiences. This person will help expand and drive current categories and identify and build new categories.

This role requires someone with a strong track record delivering sales growth in alignment with brand objectives, reflecting a deep knowledge of the customer, as well as competitive and global trends. This position requires someone who is creative, strategic, analytical and goal oriented. He/she must have a proven track record of working cross-functionally and be able to bring organization and innovation to established and new processes. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• He/she will support the team across all elements of the go-to-market process including scheduling, inventory development and adhering to the milestone calendar
• Help develop the seasonal milestone calendar and set all cross-functional touch points
• Manage and track all pre-season campaigns and lead through a complete cross-functional hand-off (Marketing, Fulfillment, Operations)
• Track in-season campaigns to ensure we are tracking to KPI’s
• Own the completion and dissemination of seasonal campaign briefs and collaborate with the marketing and content teams to ensure messaging is clear and actionable
• Act as a representative of the Merchandising team and liaise cross-departmentally to gather and provide campaign insights.
• Be an active participant in building seasonal campaign assortment plans based on unique, trend-right and high affinity experiences, driving growth and profitability
• Identify new ways to bring inventory to life and reach target consumers
• Participate/support as needed to gather consumer insights and use customer data to determine seasonal assortments and campaign strategies
• Stay informed on global automotive, consumer and business trends and tastes
• Continuously provide input and ideas and partner with the SVP to ensure the Omaze Owned strategy is on track to achieve targets

KEY FACTORS FOR SUCCESS & GROWTH:

Following are critical for the ideal candidate to succeed in the role;

• Exhibit strong organizational skills and the ability to collaborate - building consensus and alignment across the organization
• Influence company processes and help build best practices that support all channels and functions
• Be goal oriented, data-driven, and financially-minded
• Be aware of and interested in consumer and lifestyle trends
• Ability to work in ambiguity – be a self-starter
• Be an ambassador for Omaze Experiences
• Take a consumer-first approach
• Approach problem solving with creativity, positivity and an open mind
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Be willing to look for opportunities to learn and grow
• Be socially minded
• You take your work seriously but not yourself

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

• 4-5 years working in strategic, business-minded environment
• Undergraduate college degree preferred
• Experience working in both an internal and external-facing capacity
• Don’t quite meet all these requirements? Apply anyway! We love talking with great candidates