Do you get excited about planning and seeing merchandising efforts that grabs the attention of customers that helps them with their projects or simply making their dreams come true? Do you like working in a fast-paced environment where you can help drive sales and promote our brands? If so, Gold Beach Lumber & Cascade Home Center is the place for you!

Gold Beach Lumber is looking for a highly motivated Merchandise Planner to join our team in Eugene, Oregon!

About Gold Beach Lumber

We are a growing, family-owned business serving communities in Oregon for over 60 years. Gold Beach Lumber stores are convenient and offer great values on name brand products while treating our customers with a superior customer service experience.

We are part of your community and we have served generations of families with honest values that your family can count on. We also have a long history of giving back to the communities that our stores service by supporting charitable organizations and worthy causes.

If you are a great team player with a strong work ethic, great attitude and thrive to help our customers; we want to you to join our company.

Why work for Gold Beach Lumber?

• Family-owned
• Constantly growing and looking for new opportunities
• Great work-life balance
• Community involvement
• Excellent work environment
• We foster service with honesty, integrity, and value
• We love our employees and customers!

We offer our employees:

• Competitive wages
• Affordable health insurance with dental, vision and AFLAC options
• PTO/Sick Time
• 401k with company match
• Employee discounts
• On the job training with growth potential

About this position:

As a Merchandise Planner, no two days are ever the same. You will create a unique, impactful shopping experience for the Gold Beach Lumber & Cascade Home Center retail stores and understand the importance of a strong branded environment to support business objectives. The Merchandise Planner drives decisions & strategies that will deliver and maximize sales, margin, turn and GMROI goals. Contribute to achieving best in class planning and merchandising team that will accomplish company and departmental goals. Supports the creation and execution of a Merchandise strategy through multiple channels and categories. Customer experience will be forefront in their minds as they create an environment where every time the guest comes into contact with the organization, they are better for it.

You will be responsible for:

• Ensuring the Merchandise Movement Process is flawlessly executed
• Merchandising, signage, and resets in all stores
• Being a mentor, train, and coach our Planning and Inventory teams
• Using financial reporting to drive business opportunities
• Supporting future growth expectations by developing sustainable, strategic merchandise plans that are challenging but achievable
• Identifying category trends - read/react with timely communication to Merchant teams for execution. Build monthly visual merchandising presentation guidelines based on business goals and product strategies
• Partnering with marketing and store leadership to ensure storytelling needs are covered daily, weekly, monthly and seasonally
• Incorporating an impact of promotional/marketing events and product entrance/exit strategies to meet the sales and margin objectives
• Embodying the company values and put customers first

Professional competencies:

• Self-motivated and result oriented
• Flexibility, multi-task, and prioritize under tight deadlines
• Ability to drive projects and manage project teams
• In depth analytical skills with strong attention to detail
• Process and procedure oriented
• Responsibility, reliability, and trustworthiness

Travel:

• Monthly travel required

Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a business-related field (Business management, retail, finance, etc.)
• 3+ years of retail merchandise planning experience

If this describes you, we want you to be part of our team.

Apply today!!!