Associate Merchandising Manager- Toys

About the Role & Team

At Disney Consumer Products, we inspire imagination around the world and are committed to creating happiness for families and fans by bringing captivating, inspiring, and inclusive products into their daily lives.  From toys to t-shirts, console games, books, and more, our team brings our beloved brands and franchises into the lives of families through products and experiences that can be found worldwide, such as the Disney Store e-commerce platform, Disney Parks, local and international retailers, and Disney Store locations around the world.

The Associate Merchandise Manager will serve as the category lead for the Toy category within the Premium Toy, Glow, and Bubble space. You should bring deep expertise in the toy industry, understanding play patterns, consumer behavior, and trends across both child and adult demographics. Working closely with creative and product design, you ensure the development of high-quality, consumer-focused, and trend-right product lines. As the category lead, you are responsible for optimizing assortments across all channels—licensing, flexible business models, vertical, and wholesale—to build brand equity and meet financial targets within the ever-evolving Toy segment.

This is a Full-Time role

You will report to the Merchandising Manager

What You Will Do

Hardlines Merchandising

• Executes the daily implementation of the product strategy for Hardlines, Toys

• Manages the product strategy at the department, class, and sub-class levels

• Consumerist: Consumer obsessed, constantly balancing the art and the science of merchandising to find opportunities, elevate the brand, and delight our consumer

• Monitors and reports on the global competitive landscape

• Demonstrated passion for consumer and product trends

• Track development counts, adoption KPIs, and COGs targets

• Responsible for Data integrity in systems and samples

• Provide support for key milestone meetings with the development of presentation decks, briefs, recaps, and assembling input from key partners

• Attend cross-functional team meetings to assist with the input/output of communication

• Manage, update, and maintain the Range Plan

• Prepare and maintain a catalog of merchandise by quarter

• Consolidates the product needs from all regions and channels to develop one product brief to design

• Establish perspective on what’s working and why to consistently improve product line

• Partners with Product Design and Sourcing to deliver seasonal product lines for vertical and wholesale business models that meet business objectives, including sustainability goals

• Brand ambassador to cross-functional teams, showing up as compelling, dynamic, and knowledgeable in all stages of the go-to-market process and partner interactions where the product is discussed

• Delivers our diversity and inclusion goals through the right product and personal growth

• Partners with vendors to provide creative direction and feedback on the product development process

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 2+ years of experience in Product Merchandising. Toys experience preferred  

• Experience in building a product line for a category or categories of business

• Demonstrated ability to be a brand steward and maintain brand and product integrity

• Strategic thinker with the ability to drive execution against a plan

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with a diverse audience

• Successful experience in a highly matrixed company structure

• Collaborative and effective communicator

• Strong Team Player – The ability to build & foster collaborative partnerships across functions & departments

• Flexible and adaptable with a demonstrated ability to work under pressure while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment

• Demonstrated strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to prioritize workload and concurrently manage multiple projects

• High level of attention to detail; proactive, with strong follow-through skills

• Demonstrated positive attitude with the ability to be responsive to feedback and pivot based on changing organization priorities

• Demonstrated personal initiative skills in the workplace, with a willingness to learn new skills and processes

• Experience with Adobe Suite for commenting and drawovers preferred

Education

• Associate’s Degree or equivalent work experience

Additional Information

Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities, and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits. 

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