About Leap:

Leap is building the world's largest network of branded retail stores – powered by data, systems and scale. The Leap Platform enables brands to deploy stores that work in concert with ecommerce more rapidly and at significantly reduced cost and risk. Brand stores powered by Leap bring modern brands to life with compelling, immersive customer experience and data driven operations. At Leap, our diverse, growing team is excited by the opportunity to power the next generation of leading consumer brands with a vibrant presence in local communities throughout the country. We're one of the fastest growing companies in the retail/ecommerce space - since launch we've powered stores for over 40 brands, and we're adding more brands and stores each week. Leap currently powers retail for world-class brands, such as Public Rec, Bad Birdie, Goodlife, Naadam, Thirdlove and Mack Weldon. Click here to learn more about stores Powered by Leap.

Our brand customers are modern brands who lead or aspire to lead their categories today and tomorrow, and *outstanding* people are literally at the core of our product. Our organization is composed of a diverse range of talented individuals and teams. With functions like Real Estate, Store Design & Development, Retail Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Product Management and Data Science, we're a truly unique company and our shared ambitions and core values tightly align and drive us to succeed. 

Our staff are what make our organization so special and honoring our culture and values as we hire, onboard, engage, develop and support our teams is paramount.

Come take this leap with us. Your ideas, thinking, and voice are wanted. 

The Role:

At Leap, the Merchandising Manager is a strategic, cross functional and data driven role. The role involves both owning all inventory work streams with key accounts and working to enhance internal workflows for the Merchandising team as a whole. The ability to translate both qualitative and quantitative platform data into actionable strategies is a key competency for this role. The Merchandising Manager will report into the Direct of Merchandising Strategy and work collaboratively with our Retail Operations, Visual Merchandising, Store Design, and Marketing teams.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop brand / store specific merchandising strategies and recommendations that leverage brand and Leap Platform data & insights to an continuously maximize store sales 
• Collaborate with brand partners to curate the optimal assortment down to the store level 
• Analyze selling, trends, insights, Platform data and stock positions on a bi-weekly basis and provide replenishment requests as needed
• Drive cross functional in-store strategies with internal partners on the Visual Merchandising and Marketing teams 
• Create and roll out new Merchandising programs (IE: Inventory management systems, Insights Tracking, BI Tools) in partnership with Retail Operations 
• Enhance Merchandising SOPs and workstreams to allow for scaling our rapidly growing business
• Manage 1 direct report on the Merchandising team 

Preferred experience, skills & attributes:

• 4-6 years of relevant professional corporate retail/merchandising experience required 
• Experience with Shopify preferred
• Highly proficient in data analysis inclusive of Excel data manipulation 
• Proven ability to drive strategic recommendations from data
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic/ high growth startup environment
• Skilled in working and leading projects cross functionally

Outcomes & measures of success:

•  Successful management of inventory breadth and depth across key accounts to maximize sales and minimize OOS
• Continuous recommendations of new strategies as it relates to merchandising and assortment planning
• Cross functional communication with internal and external stakeholders to enhance inventory and merchandising work flows, systems and tools
• Successful roll out of inventory programs used platform wide