Ecommerce Merchandiser

**Sporting Life**

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Sporting Life is a leading, iconic Canadian sports lifestyle retailer. Since 1979, we've been committed to providing our customers and their families with the best possible experience—and we are continuously working to improve it every day. We offer the best in outdoor apparel and fashion, footwear, equipment and accessories for men, women and kids. The mix of sport and fashion is what makes us unique._**

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YOU live for the great Canadian outdoors and take pride in living the Sporting Life. You relish in the exhilarating experience of skiing, snowboarding, cycling, running, tennis, hiking and camping and want to inspire our customers to do the same. You believe in the spirit of team, adapting to the ever changing retail environment, being part of constant innovation and working alongside the best leaders, associates and vendors in the business. We are looking for those who live what we sell every day and who celebrate the love of sport and an active way of living._**
**Job Title**:E-Commerce Merchandiser**
**Reports To: E- Commerce Manager**

The web merchandiser will play a key role in supporting Sporting Life’s eCommerce website by helping grow sales, increasing customer conversions and maximizing profitability. This will be achieved through the optimization of promotions, product merchandising, onsite search, cross-selling, and upselling across all categories. Additionally, the individual will also focus on enhancing the shopping experience through the different promotions and themes while identifying opportunities / partnerships for the valuation of products.
**Description of Job Responsibilities**:

- Merchandise the product catalog to ensure high priority items are displayed on product listing pages, maximizing sales and items per transactions.
- Merchandise product pages across the site; including the homepage, categories, landing and marketing pages to highlight themes, trends, and promotions.
- Optimize search by maintaining and enhancing site navigation paths, facets, and keyword search results.
- Liaise with catalog content team to ensure information is accurate and up to date, facilitating a rich search experience.
- Partner with marketing to build and execute marketing campaigns, curating collections, products, and digital assets.
- Ensure seasonal buying themes are represented in product groupings and site displays.
- Consistently review catalog status and report to ensure the Online Store is a creative reflection of Sporting Life’s full product assortment.
- Conduct daily quality assurance checks to ensure accuracy and optimal user experience.
**Essential Requirements**:

- Strong analytical ability coupled with creative problem-solving skills.
- Action oriented, and comfortable taking calculated risks to better serve our customers and business.
- Outcome focused, critical thinker with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement across our business.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize workload to achieve results in a constantly changing environment.
- Collaborative team player with superior influencing skills, proven ability to build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward.
- Adapts quickly to changing priorities, manages time, multiple tasks, and deadlines effectively.
- Strong work ethic and sense of urgency.
- Creative eye and keen interest in fashion, ability to style and pull collections together.
- Ability to quickly learn and work with computer technology.
- Passionate about sports, lives the sporting life.
**Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing or E-Commerce
- Minimum 1 year experience working in a similar E-Commerce, UX or Marketing role.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel. Comfortable with HTML and Photoshop.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong negotiating skills.
- Expert knowledge of Google Analytics / AdWords.
- Advanced Microsoft Office knowledge.
- Knowledge of the retail environment is an asset.
- Bilingual - French and English preferred (spoken and written).