At L.L.Bean, we believe the outdoors brings out the best in all of us. We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and creating safe, inclusive spaces where everyone feels welcome—both here and Outside. We value individual differences and are dedicated to maintaining an inclusive work environment where everyone can bring the best of their experience and talents and truly thrive.
Position Purpose: In this important role this person will support L.L.Bean’s wholesale channel in achieving sales and operating contribution goals, while remaining aligned with the LLB brand. Responsible for coordinating tasks related to merchandising, inventory, creative/marketing and operations. Manage various data responsibilities including purchase order coordination and oversight of sample and image asset procurement. Effectively communicate with numerous internal (and potentially external) counterparts. Provide ad hoc support to wholesale team as needed.
This is a Temporary role expected to last between early May and early September.
Responsibilities:
- Process Wholesale orders into SAP
- Track missing orders/delayed shipments and communicate fulfillment anomalies to wholesale partners
- Manage RTV requests, store-level PO’s, special order requests, etc.
- Oversee procurement, delivery, and returning of product samples (both samples sent to partners and samples procured for presentations)
- Work cross-functionally to help develop Store-Rep-Level learning materials for our partners with brick & mortar stores
- Fulfill product asset requests (image/copy requests)
- Assign and maintain UPC lists
- Report on selling data (color rank, size curves, sales trend) to wholesale partners
- Manage communication of product markdowns and price changes
- Assist in scheduling and occasional facilitation of Sell-In meetings. Work with vendors to ensure alignment of PD/Buying calendars
- Prepare materials for presentations (assist with VLP/ Line List creation and/or NuOrder maintenance)
- Successfully manage numerous internal and external cross-functional relationships
- Assume additional responsibilities as requested
Health and Safety Requirement: Every employee is responsible for contributing to a safe and healthy workplace. Employees are expected to be active participants in health and safety by following all safety policies and procedures, reporting unsafe conditions or at-risk behaviors to leadership, and conducting work in a safe manner. Those in a leadership role are also expected to model safe behaviors, evaluate risk, and ensure that risks are reduced to acceptable levels.
Education Level: 4-Year Bachelors Degree
Years of Experience: 1+ years
Skills and Qualifications:
- Strong bias for action
- Ability to multi-task
- Effective communication skills
- Effective collaborator
- Ability to problem-solve
- Detail oriented
- Comfortable in fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and ability to quickly learn new tools as needed
- Experience or education in wholesale, merchandising, retail or operations a plus
If you care about the outdoors, joining L.L.Bean is a great way to feel good about what you do. Our benefits package makes a good thing even better, with programs and perks designed to support your health and financial goals. Plus, maintaining a healthy work-life balance and re-charging outside are all part of the plan.
If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you'd be great at this role, we'd love to learn more about you! At L.L.Bean, we believe the outdoors brings out the best in all of us. We strive to reflect this every day in our commitments to employees and partners and in our efforts to promote belonging.