Merchandising Manager - Electronics

Monroe

Wisconsin

Job Description

Join our team as an Electronics Merchandising Manager and lead the development of strategic, seasonally relevant product assortments across our consumer electronics and accessories portfolios. In this role, you'll drive business growth by optimizing category performance, building strong vendor partnerships, and collaborating cross functionally to bring innovative, in-demand products to market. Your expertise will help shape compelling, customer focused assortments that keep our electronics offering competitive, relevant, and exciting.

What You'll Do:
The Merchandising Manager is responsible for developing compelling product assortments in the electronics category that align with strategic and financial goals. This role involves leading assortment architecture, engaging with vendors to drive product selection, and negotiating key business terms such as MOQs, costs, and timelines. The manager uses analytics, market insights, and brand direction to ensure assortments meet customer expectations for style, price, and placement. Collaboration across cross-functional teams is essential to support execution.

In addition, you'll:
* Monitor market trends and competitive activity to inform product and category decisions.
* Develop merchandising strategies that align with seasonal financial goals and customer acquisition targets.
* Partner with Planning to build and analyze seasonal financial plans, adjusting pricing and promotions as needed.
* Lead end-to-end assortment planning, including vendor negotiations, and KPI analysis.
* Collaborate with divisional leaders to plan and execute catalog assortments.
* Communicate product features and benefits to creative teams for accurate and compelling presentation.
* Lead cross-functional teams and mentor a Product Assistant to support merchandising execution.

Qualifications

To be successful, you must have retail experience in catalog, brick and mortar, or internet channels. We're looking for someone with strong verbal and numerical reasoning skills and Merchandise Management experience. Ideally you will have a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Retail Consumer Science, Marketing or a related discipline.

In addition, we are looking for:
* A creative individual that can conceptualize merchandising strategies, articulate them and develop product that supports the brand vision
* 5+ years' of strong merchandising, buying, marketing, or general business knowledge. 3+ years' of experience is acceptable, with specific category expertise.
* A strong aptitude to research and analyze business opportunities
* The ability to work with a multiple cross functional partners
* An ability to think ahead and plan over a 1 to 5 year planning horizon
* The ability to organize and manage multiple priorities/tasks and lead complex, multi-department projects to optimal completion
* A demonstrated ability to lead people and achieve positive results through others
* Deep understanding that the organization is built on a series of integrated business processes; You must understand how each process works and how they are interrelated to other processes

About Us

Welcome to Colony Brands! As one of North America's largest multi-channel, direct-marketing companies, we take pride in our diverse portfolio of affiliates, brands, and products. Despite our growth over the last century, we remain true to our roots as a private, customer-focused business based in Monroe, WI. Stability is just one aspect of our culture. What truly defines us is our commitment to our Core Values, fostering employee growth, and creating a better place to live and work. We are dedicated to supporting the communities we serve and offer a wide range of benefits and programs to enhance the well-being of our employees.

Benefits Details

Colony Brands is not just about growing our profits - We are about giving our employees the opportunity for growth and providing a better place to live and work. We also offer our employees many great rewards in addition to monetary compensation:

Job Category

Merchandising

Employment Type

Regular/Full-Time