Director, Channel Merchandising

Description

• Perform Channel Analysis: Identify the most suitable channels for a product based on factors like target audience, product characteristics, and competitive landscape.   

• Determine Product Mix: Determine the optimal mix of products, including retailer exclusives, replenishment, and evergreen items, to meet customer needs and maximize sales. This involves considering factors such as product variety, pricing, inventory levels, and promotions.   
• Develop Channel-Specific Assortments: Develop channel-specific assortments that cater to the unique needs and preferences of different customer segments, ultimately driving differentiation across accounts and growing market share for the Funko brand. 
• Determine the Exclusive & Limited-Edition Product Strategy: You will work with account partners and commercial teams to complement the mainline assortment and drive fan excitement & traffic at retail. 
• Manage Product Life Cycle: Manage the life cycle of products, from introduction to decline, by adjusting product offerings, pricing, and promotion strategies as needed within specific channels and accounts.

• Drive Channel-Specific Packaging: Partner with creative to design and implement packaging that is tailored to specific channels, taking into account factors like shelf life, transportation requirements, and consumer preferences. 

• Forecasting & Inventory Management: Work closely with Key Account planning to ensure that appropriate levels of inventory are maintained across different channels to avoid stockouts or excess inventory.  

• 15+ years of retail buying and/or merchandising assortment planning experience – you have experience working for a retailer or a brand with a history of increasing scope and responsibility.  You know how to take a line plan and shape it into a fan-focused business plan because you’ve done it before and know what it takes to win.
• Capability building and change management experience: you understand how to design new ways of working and bring your team and cross-functional partners along the change journey.
• Executive-level communication skills – you are able to build presentations and pitch your ideas to everyone from wholesale buyers to DMMs to internal stakeholders and beyond.
• Expert level financial acumen – you understand retail math and relevant KPIs and can use that experience to develop strategies and assortments that deliver for both Funko and key accounts.
• Elite analytical abilities – you can learn systems, pull raw data, and manipulate the output into cogent, consumable analysis that generates actionable insights that can be shared across the enterprise.
• Passion for Pop Culture & Product – Funko makes products that millions of people of love, and you are their advocate for bringing product to life through channel and account strategy. To succeed in this role, product has to be seen as more than numbers on a page.
• Growth mindset – you believe in the art of the possible and are driven to leap past compromise into win-win-win recommendations and strategies for fans, customers, and the Funko brand.
• World-class organizational skills – with thousands of new items dropping every year and dozens of planning milestones spanning multiple seasons at a time, you have the ability to stay on-time and on task to drive results for the business.

What Funko Offers
Funko offers a competitive compensation package with full benefits and a 401(K) plan with matching contributions from the company. Most importantly, we offer a creative work environment with people who love pop culture just as much as you do. Can’t wait to gush about your latest binge? Neither can we! Looking for a place where your favorite pop culture t-shirt will receive the compliments it deserves? We know how you feel!

Funko is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.