Digital Merchandising Specialist

Company: US Foods
Location: Des Plaines
Posted on: June 19, 2022

Job Description:

Join Our Community of Food People!The Digital Merchandising Specialist is responsible for engaging with category management and support teams to define and launch strategies across digital platforms. In collaboration with the digital marketing and category management teams, this role will create an optimal shopping experience to drive sales. They will partner with cross functional teams in business and technology to drive efficiencies and continuously improve the customer experience. The right candidate will demonstrate a winning attitude, be flexible, results oriented, analytical, and self-starting.**New Ways of Work: This position has been segmented as "Remote Anywhere" meaning the role Responsibilities:**+ Create an optimal shopping experience by collaborating with category management and marketing to create category specific engagements, landing pages, story-telling, solution-oriented experiences, proper reviews and personalization.+ Develop and manage a vendor funded digital engagement and activation strategy.+ Support product detail page perfection with optimal content to improve conversion.+ Manage ecommerce search capabilities and continuously improve search experience.+ Support cross merchandising of product groups to drive profitable mix.+ Plan and coordinate channel activation of merchandising capabilities.+ Contribute to the development of the strategy for ecommerce features/functionality and activation plans to achieve sales and site-level goals.+ Execute online customer experiences across all devices, from desktop to mobile, including apps.+ Work closely with campaign and cross-functional partners (including creative, UX/UI, Copy & Content, Marketing, category management and IT teams) to align on seasonal strategies and plans.+ Measure effectivity of merchandising capabilities to inform development, execution, and continuous improvement.+ Have great attention to detail and exceptional follow through+ Be customer-centric and focused on delivering seamless experiences+ Focus on continuous improvement**Education/Training:**+ Bachelors degree in business marketing or similar field required.**Related Experience:**+ 5 years in ecommerce, digital marketing or merchandising required. Must be familiar with Google analytics and/or Adobe analytics and Microsoft Applications. Project management experience associated with cross functional merchandising and/ or digital projects desired. Understanding of ecommerce user experience desired.**Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:**+ The ideal candidate will possess a passion for digital merchandising, a positive attitude, outgoing personality, be highly collaborative, adaptable and show a willingness to take initiative. Demonstrating the ability to manage information from disparate sources, provide proactive, timely solutions and serve as the internal subject matter expert is desiredThe following information is provided in accordance with the Colorado Pay Equity Act. Compensation depends on experience, geographic locations, and other factors permitted by law. In Colorado, the expected compensation for this role is between $75,000 and $96,450. This role is also eligible for an annual incentive plan bonus. Benefits for this role include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance. To review available benefits, please click here: https://www.usfoods.com/careers/benefits.html .LI-MS1#ZR#AC#Remote*****EOE** **Race/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual** **Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Protected Veteran/Disability Status*****

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