Who We Are:
At Convivial Brands, everything we do revolves around Making Life Better - which includes creating opportunities, products, and a culture that strives to do just that. The physical products we make help people celebrate and enhance life, sometimes in small, quaint ways, and other times in big statements. From celebrating a wedding to giving a small gift of appreciation, each brand produces an end product that intends to make life friendly, lively, and jovial - ergo making life Convivial. This is achieved through operating within our Core Values of being trustworthy, pursuing excellence, and exemplifying a team first mindset. Those three values are what guides our day-to-day operations and ensures we are moving in the right direction the right way. As our brands continue to expand and grow, we're looking to add new team members who can not just maintain our culture, but can add value and help us continually improve. Our goal is to transform work from an obligation to passion!
We're currently looking for a Merchandising Audit Specialist to join our team at Convivial Brands!
The Position:
As the Merchandising Audit Specialist, you will ensure all merchandise displays launched in Regional and National accounts meet strict, company-specific standards of quality. If you're extremely detail-oriented, organized, and have a strong desire to work in a production-driven, fast-paced environment, then this may be a great fit for you.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Always conduct self in a manner consistent with Convivial Brands' Core Values of being Trustworthy, Pursuing Excellence, and exemplifying a Team First mindset.
- Work with the Merchandising Manager to uphold the display standards in all National Regional Accounts.
- Follow, maintain and, when needed, assist in updating all merchandising department/seat-specific standards, processes, and documentation.
- Be informative and supportive of all company planogram and display policies and standards. Assure compliance with, and consistency of those standards and facilitate appropriate communication.
- Provide written and verbal feedback to merchandisers and 3rd party groups for improvement or changes as needed.
- Review all documentation/photos submitted by merchandisers (to internal and external portals) to ensure displays are set accurately at retail locations.
- Provide a list of discrepancies to the Merchandising Manager, Sales Manager, and 3rd party Account Manager when photos submitted do not align with orders placed or intended planograms for correctional purposes.
- Review list of stores visited and confirm appropriate orders were placed during the visit.
- Communicate and provide audit analysis along with suggestions, including areas of improvement, consistent errors, or where possible additional training needed.
- Ensure all transitions are executed in according to deadline, including every day and seasonal as well as refreshes and resets. Communicate any transitions off-deadline to appropriate parties.
- Provide weekly tracking reports to 3rd party groups.
- Track incoming seasonal credits and follow up to ensure completion by deadlines.
- Order and process supply mailings as needed.
- Travel to installs when needed.
- Set up new merchandisers in Navision (NAV) and Card Manager, enter and maintain ship notifications in NAV, and deactivate terminated merchandisers from all systems as directed.
- Place orders in ERP systems for all merchandisers as necessary and provide ERP tracking as requested.
What's in it for you?
- You'll be joining a growing company where there will be opportunities to challenge yourself and opportunities for growth and development.
- Our office has a hybrid model - employees must be in office on Monday and Thursday, but you can work remotely other days of the week with your Manager's approval.
- We offer competitive pay and benefits! We have 8 company-paid holidays, a generous Paid Time Off Bank (PTO), and our benefits are robust and affordable. Full-time employees currently get company-paid life insurance (1 timesThis your annual salary) and company-paid short-term and long-term disability. We also offer extras like legal coverage, identitiy protection, and pet insurance! And let's not forget the employee discounts that we offer on each of our brands' products/services - Design Design, Style Life, Verdant Graphics, Tableau, and The High Five Grand Rapids.
Convivial Brands Diversity & Inclusion Statement:
Convivial Brands is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our most valuable asset. our employees' individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent - and the way they invest their unique identities in their work - are a significant part of our culture, our reputation, and our achievements. We embrace and encourage our team members' differences in age, colore, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristices that make our team members unique. Convivial Brands' diversity initiatives apply to all parts of the employment experience, including but not limited to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions; social and recreational programs; layoffs and separations; and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
If you're ready to make a difference and join our mission to Make Life Better, we invite you to apply!