Ecommerce Product Manager

Now hiring an Ecommerce Product Manager – Merchandising – Hybrid position in the Smyrna/Vinings area.

REPORTING – Reports to the VP Global Sourcing & JanSan Merchandising

FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES – The Ecommerce Product Manager – Merchandising is responsible for shaping online merchandising including the identification of market opportunities as well as development and implementation of key product line additions and enhancements. This position is a key contributor to the success of the Internet Reseller (IR) strategic initiative and seeks to drive revenue and strengthen the customer experience through product evolution, enhancement, and optimization efforts.

This individual will create Ecommerce merchandising plans in conjunction with the merchant, vendors, and Ecommerce team to lead new product launches and manage existing products to ensure they meet customer requirements. This person will be key in driving inventory procurement and planning for the IR Channel. Assigned performance goal and project commitment date achievements will be key.

Other primary responsibilities of the position include:

• Conduct competitive research to identify best-in-class experiences and key trends and utilize independent judgment to interpret and implement merchandising assortments and programs that best serve those enhancements
• Review analytics to identify opportunity areas for product improvement and devise functional requirements to meet those opportunities
• Manage the Ecommerce product line review process, including drop items from the offering, add items to assortment, vendor information acquisition and management. Achieve the process commitment date
• Coordinate RFPs for large quote requests and find deviated pricing opportunities
• Manage the promotional product selection process working with the Ecommerce team
• Participate in the analysis and formation of SPR pricing strategy. Manage the implementation of the strategy within assigned categories
• Interface with SPR customers, as necessary
• Occasional travel to visit vendors, customers, and participate in tradeshows

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS – The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3+ years of experience in Ecommerce product merchandising including digital product management and/or business analyst experience. Other key qualifications include:

• Advanced Excel skills including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP and experience with Power BI
• Experience navigating goals across multiple stakeholder groups
• Strong people skills; executive presence and maturity
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation communication skills

We seek an energetic and confident professional who is a great fit into the corporate culture and dedicated to his/ her profession. He/ She must possess good judgement, maturity, and a strong work ethic. The candidate’s personal characteristics should also include:

• Collaborative, bridge builder between
• Focused, disciplined, personable; ability to influence others to get decisions made
• Experienced interfacing with diverse levels of management and demonstrated client success as “trusted advisor”
• A self-starter personality, driven and purposeful, good judgement with the ability to assess a strong potential lead from a weak/limited one
• Detail oriented with strong follow through
• Strategic with the ability to work with mid and senior-level management at prospective customers
• Organized and systematic

EDUCATION – Bachelor’s Degree from a four-year accredited institution

COMPANY OVERVIEW – Serving customers for over 170 years, we at S.P. Richards have established ourselves as one of North America’s largest independent wholesale distributors of JanSan, breakroom, furniture, office supplies and business technology products.

With a proven history of dependable service, we’re a company that’s proud of where we came from and more importantly, excited about where we’re going.

We invite you to learn more about our company and why we love working here by visiting https://www.sprichards.com

S.P. Richards