Assistant Merchant

Company Description

About GNC

Since 1935, GNC has been a global leader in health and wellness innovation, inspiring people to achieve their goals with a trusted and dynamic range of products. As #TeamGNC, we prioritize our consumers, constantly collaborating and developing new ideas to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Our team is passionate about driving change and turning aspirations into actions. We believe that good health is the greatest gift, and there's nothing more rewarding than helping others achieve it. Join us in empowering others to Live Well!

What We’re Looking For:

At GNC we embrace a “Live Well” philosophy, fostering a dynamic environment where innovation meets passion. Whether someone is an athlete or just starting to focus on their health, we want to deliver the cutting-edge products they deserve. We are looking for an individual who is excited and eager to play a pivotal role in driving excellence in the health and wellness industry. This position offers the opportunity to engage in a collaborative environment where you will make a personal impact every day.

The Assistant Merchant, Wellness is responsible for supporting and executing a profitable, customer-focused merchandising and assortment strategy, utilizing core merchandising competencies. This person will assist category merchants for the assigned specific strategic, merchandise categories. This position operates within the Merchandising and collaborates with the cross functional teams supporting the business including product development, science, store operations, marketing, pricing, finance, legal and inventory planning.

What You’ll Do:

This is a Full-Time Salary Position

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supports assortment across national brands and GNC proprietary brands using industry and consumer insights to develop customer-focused merchandising
• Assists with the Lifecycle for all of the products in the category.
• Ability to develop deep understanding of category performance, perform category reviews and identify opportunities for growth.
• Supports category wide merchandising strategies including in store merchandising, marketing and promotional planning and advertising.
• Assists in Building Visual Merchandising Strategy and eCommerce experience that will support the sales, margin and turn objectives.
• Builds vendor relationship; establishes and maintains effective vendor partnerships that strengthen industry relationships as well as product and trend knowledge.
• Monitors and analyzes competitive landscape to identify new trends and opportunities, evaluates merchandise assortments, evaluates competitive pricing, and translates findings into executable tactics to ensure.
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with cross functional teams.
• Cross functional collaboration across marketing, store operations, finance, training and other areas of the company
• Works closely with product development and science teams to develop innovative, high quality and best in class proprietary GNC brands and products.
• All other duties as assigned.

PHYSICAL ASPECTS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Hybrid work environment, 2 days in-person attendance (Pittsburgh, PA) in addition to ability to work remotely.
• Regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands or fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.
• Work is performed in an office environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include long periods of computer screen usage, close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually low/moderate.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, or related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the key accountabilities of the job required
• High degree of proficiency MS Office Suite, Outlook & Internet applications
• Strong analytical, prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, budgeting, project management (from conception to completion), & planning skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (including analysis, interpretation, & reasoning)
• Solid understanding and application of mathematical concepts
• Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with peers and colleagues across the organization, as well as, internal and external clients
• Ability to work well autonomously and within a team in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented
• Ability to work with and influence peers and senior management
• Self-motivated with critical attention to detail, deadlines and reporting
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar
• Ability to read, write, and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos
• Ability to work overtime as necessary

Benefits Offerings

Benefit Offerings: Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, Paid Company Life Insurance, 401K program with company match, 30% employee merchandise discount on GNC products & 20% employee discount on 3rd party products, Monthly Free Product Offers, and access to the Employee Assistance Program.

Compensation Benefits