Provide guidance to Merchandising team members on requirements and capabilities of Merchandising.Business Systems to facilitate the capture of assortment, promotion, item cost, and cost support decisions/negotiations in an accurate and supportable manner.Aid the Merchandising team with Merchandise Business Systems related processes, forms, service levels, protocols, systems, and policies.Document system and processes that are not well known by the Merchandising team in a consistent format that can be used as a point of reference by the organization.Assist merchandising team in prioritization of projects and tasks in a time sensitive environment and correctly identify critical paths among task dependencies.Facilitate the resolution of escalated merchandising issues related to rejected workflow requests.Communicate effectively with merchandising leadership while aiding the Sr. Merchandising Program Manager in ensuring that planned activities are consistent with SEI strategy.Analyze, understand, execute, and train others on complex processes from a system and business perspective.Gather and evaluate information from diverse sources and quickly determine necessary actions.Accurately assess potential impact to stores when making decisions and recommendations.

Proactively managed assigned merchandising requests in workflow application daily and prioritized by proposed effective date.Keyed merchandising requests for new items and item attribute changes into merchandising systems to support submitted effective date. Identified submission errors and collaborated with submitter to resolve issue and resubmitted timely to ensure proposed effective date is met. Verified data accuracy after completion of requests to ensure data flows to stores accurately.