Associate, Merchandise Designer- Soft Home Focus

Position Summary...This role supports the development and execution of product assortments and brand strategies, ensuring alignment with business objectives, market trends, and customer needs to drive sales and customer satisfaction.What you'll do...

Responsibilities:

This role ensures the strategic fit of brand sub-segments with the overall brand vision, optimizing product opportunities while balancing margin, quality, styling, and price. Responsibilities include developing category strategic plans through market analysis and trend assessment, and converting these plans into actionable items such as seasonal support documents and market research reports. The role may also involve designing and producing seasonal and special event lines, ensuring the assortment meets customer needs and aligns with the business vision.

This role collaborates with various teams to manage the product development process from end to end, including creating trend and product development direction packages for vendors. The role works to manage vendor development proposals, ensuring critical product requirements such as managing timelines and milestone, styling, quality, and value align with brand strategy and financial targets. Additionally, the role involves assessing program, market and vendor performance to identifying new product and vendor opportunities, while maintaining knowledge of Walmart US development for consideration to leverage global partnerships effectively.

Supporting internal design initiatives, this role ensures brand DNA, aesthetic, quality, and value align with customer needs and market leadership. The role monitors the quality of work from third-party packaging agencies, manage product specifications, fit approvals, quality benchmarks, and analytics. This role also involves understanding the competitive landscape, developing strategies to enhance market share, and collaborating with merchandising operations teams, Walmart US counterparts, vendors and Global Sourcing teams to achieve business objectives.

The role supports business solutions by building relationships with key stakeholders, identifying and driving business needs, and carrying out necessary processes. The role also demonstrates compliance with company policies, upholds company values, and adapts to organizational changes and new responsibilities.

Leadership Expectations:

Respect the Individual:

Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associated feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.

Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.

Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.

Acts with Integrity:

Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).

Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

Serve our Customers:

Delivers results while putting the customer first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.

Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.

Strive for Excellence:

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.

Qualifications:

• University Degree/College Certificate or Diploma in Fashion or Merchandising

• 6-8 years' related experience (Textile/Home Furnishings experience preferred)

• Strong communication; verbal, written and presentation skills

• Ability to identify and interpret trends & execute at a commercial level

• Design direction, creation, and evaluation capabilities as well as solving design issues

• Working knowledge of product development process; factory production, timelines and approval process (Domestic and Import)

• Adept knowledge of fabrics/materials, finishes and techniques

• Proficient knowledge of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop

• Knowledge of packaging and quality testing standards

• Able to travel on business as needed

• Project Management and Private Brand development, as an asset

• Market knowledge and ability to maintain an awareness of current design trends and influences

The pay range for this position is $74, $101, Pay will be determined based on relevant experience.

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L'échelle salariale pour ce poste est de 74,000.00 à 101, La rémunération sera déterminée en fonction de l'expérience pertinente.

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Age - 16 or olderPreferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location…

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, CanadaAre you currently a Walmart associate?Please login to your Workday account and use the Find Jobs report to apply for this job.

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