Senior E-Commerce Merchant

Sr Merchant - E-Commerce

The Sr Merchant - E-Commerce is responsible for developing and managing Acehardware.com's merchandise assortment plan, including RSC based SKUs and those from non-RSC sources including Acenet direct vendors, Emery Jensen SKUs, and ecommerce hub partners. The Sr. E-Commerce Merchant is responsible for the negotiating promotional offerings for this mix, including any vendor provided item cost concessions, retailer credits, and / or vendor promotional payments. The Sr. E-Commerce merchant is also a key stakeholder in driving go-forward UX strategy in partnership with IT, UX, Ops and Content teams. Not only is the merchant team a stakeholder in driving improved CVR through non-merchandising UX, but has direct responsibility for improving findability through search / browse, creating compelling and intuitive promotions, scrutinizing and elevating product content / SEO, with an overarching focus on reducing friction throughout the entire shopping experience, agnostic of platform (desktop, mobile, App) or fulfilment channel (ship, delivery, pick-up).

Main Responsibilities

Strategy and Planning

• Develop and Execute strategies for the online channel around the 4 p's of marketing-execute product, pricing and placement strategy across the entire acehardware.com platform while driving profitable sales through all aspects of Internet assortment planning (ie core basic / omni channel SKUs) internet only SKUs, vendor direct SKUs, and clearance SKUs, that materially advance / shape the Ace brand and online business
• Act as a thought leader, mentor, coach within the online team
• Relentlessly maintain a critical eye for all thing's user experience, with goal of removing as much friction across the purchase funnel as possible
• Improve site findability; through search & browse optimization activities
• Review KPI & web behavior metrics to generate data driven insights & actions
• Manage product recommendation, basket builder, and trade-up strategies
• Drive future online only assortment expansion strategies via drop ship
• Analyze the ecommerce market to develop understandings of market trends and competitors' strengths, weaknesses and strategies.

Develop and Manage Online Merchandising Assortment

Promotional Planning

Content Assets

Retailer Communication

Inventory / Supply Chain Support

Financial Management & Site Analytics

Talent Management

Experience and Technical Requirements

Compensation Details :

$101000 - $126000 Per Year

Why Should You Join Our Team?

We live our values - W.E.L.I.G.H.T (Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork). Gratitude. Humility. Love. You don't often see values like these in most corporate statements, but Ace is different. These things are important to us. They represent our commitment to the company, our employees, to Ace retailers and to the Ace brand.

In addition to providing our employees a great culture, Ace also offers competitive benefits