Merchandising Support
Join the FurnitureDealer.Net Client Relations Team as a Merchandising Support associate.
Do you love serving and WOWing others?
Do you love solving problems?
Do you love internet strategy and consumer experience?
Do you love business?
Are you a person whose actions speak louder than your words, and want a chance to prove yourself?
Would you rather join a great company, or work your tail off to help build one? If you answered yes to these questions, and if you know that you can wow our team and our customers, then please read on.
WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR
This is an entry level position, but we're looking for someone who wants to join us long term. If you're just looking for a "job" or some "entry level experience," please do NOT apply. We are looking for highly motivated self starters who want to join a team, who are committed to personal excellence - who don't just want to be good, they want to be great. We are looking for someone who we can invest in, and who will invest back in us long term to help us build a great company, and to help our client companies compete and win online against Amazon. We are looking to jointly invest in each others' growth and success.
Nearly all job seekers claim that they want to be successful, but very few are actually willing to put in the time, energy and sacrifice necessary to become the best version of themselves, or to help their team and their clients be truly great. We want to work with people who want to work, and who enjoy working. We are looking for people who don't need a lot of direction and can work well in an unstructured environment, who know how to ask questions, figure out what needs to be done, and know how to get it done.
We are looking for people who love learning, strategic thinking, setting big goals, executing and being accountable. We strongly value curiosity, accountability, and humility.
We think work should be fun. Our clients run businesses, and they hire us to help them do business better. To succeed in this role, you must think business is fun.
Our company is driven more by values than we are by money. "We love making money by helping our partners make money." That is our company motto, and it highlights how we think long term and how important win-win partnerships are to us. We are looking for unselfish people. We know that if we partner with the right kind of people (teammates and clients), and if we work hard to serve them and help them be successful, that it will bring personal success to us over time. We believe that career happiness and personal excellence are achieved by focusing on others rather than on yourself, and from working really hard, obsessing over details, doing great work, and being someone who others "love" working with. If you are the kind of person who is more interested in looking out for yourself rather than serving others and committing long term to our team, then please do not apply.
ABOUT US
FurnitureDealer.Net is an internet technology, online marketing, content publishing and management company located in Burnsville Minnesota. We are the internet business partner for more than 100 leading full-service brick and mortar furniture retailers. We build, manage and host our clients' websites, publish their online digital product catalogs, and strategize with them to attract and serve consumers both online and in-store. We are a hard working team of tech-savvy, business-oriented problem solvers, constantly striving for innovation and efficiency.
WHY WE LOVE WHAT WE DO
The internet is all about moving information, and we want to provide great information to people using our websites to shop for home furnishings. Our company publishes and manages the product catalogs for several hundred furniture, mattress, appliance, and electronics brands. This involves researching, communicating, objectively presenting and maintaining a wide range of helpful information about these products for our more than four million e-commerce visitors per month.
Furniture isn’t meant to simply fill the space in one’s home, but instead it encourages you to create meaningful spaces. It’s easy to overlook the fact that the furniture in your home will play host to countless memories, but that is what makes furniture shopping so special. From that first sofa you buy for your new apartment, to the dining table where family traditions will be made, furniture continuously plays an important role. We recognize the substantial impact that furniture has on people’s lives, and that has led us to develop a passion for simplifying the furniture shopping experience. Through the inspiring and informative content we create, we are better able to connect people with the furniture that will allow them to create meaningful spaces.
The Role
The Merchandising Team owns the success of FurnitureDealer.Net’s merchandising products and initiatives. We work closely with retailers to understand their unique in-store merchandising and translate that experience online, providing strategies, tools, and training to help clients merchandise their website with accurate products, pricing, and availability information. The Merchandising Support role reports to the Merchandising Specialist, assisting with merchandising projects and managing all client product requests.
Responsibilities
Manage the intake and follow up of all client product content creation requests
Communicate project status and required actions to retailers
Identify new vendor catalog opportunities and connect Supplier Relations team to leads
Create product in the company’s proprietary PIM
Constantly innovate. Always on the lookout for process and tool improvements
Start with Why
In order to be successful in this role, you need to go beyond project management. We don’t just want to get something done, we want to understand why we’re doing it, and identify trends and solutions that will help reduce requests, improve our catalog offering, and give retailers confidence in the request process. Let’s find ways to be proactive, not reactive.
Strengths
Strong written and oral communication skills
Ability to manage a lot of projects all at once
Attention to detail
Constantly asking questions and gathering context in order to select the best path forward
WHAT TO EXPECT
We are a company that believes financial rewards and compensation should go to individuals who work hard and earn them. We focus on long term (not short term) success and payout in our relationships. We want to hire a few individuals who are looking to invest along with us in their career and in our business.
TRYOUT PERIOD
Actions speak louder than words. Every new hire is given a 16-week tryout, during which you will be given the opportunity to learn about our business and culture, to work alongside us on important projects, to earn our trust, (and for us to earn your trust). You will receive training that extensively covers general industry knowledge, the tools we use to manage our catalog, and the daily operations on our team. The people who have been most successful in our company invest their time and energy in not only doing great work, but also in learning as much as they can about our business. The individuals who have been the most successful have recognized business opportunities and needs, and gotten themselves into roles that match their individual strengths and passions.
Your starting total compensation will be $39,800 per year, which includes a starting salary (during the tryout period) of $35,000 per year. In addition, (starting on your first day) you will be paid $4,800 per year in benefits compensation to use towards our company's truly unique "benefits." At the start of your second full month, you will become eligible to apply your benefits compensation to purchase any of our optional pre-tax cafeteria plan options such as group health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, and health savings account. If you don't want or need our cafeteria plan benefits, you can continue to “cash out” your benefits money as taxable compensation to use for a variety of "after tax" choices such as student loan repayment, save for car, save for house, save for vacation, or save for just about anything that is important to you.
"LOVE YOUR WORK" is our goal, and is how we measure ourselves. If during the tryout, we find that you love working with us and we love working with you, then we will offer you a full time position and increase your salary to $37,000 (plus the $4,800 in benefits). You will become eligible for our IRA retirement savings plan with 3% company matching, and will be offered a free new smart phone.
WORK PERKS
Company library and audio books
Company paid cell phone plan
$2,000 new employee furniture shopping experience training grants
Free healthy team lunches
Well stocked coffee and Nespresso bar
Beer Thursdays informal weekly company happy hour meetings
Great kitchen, dining and outdoor areas
Office fitness/workout room
Company SUV available for employees to borrow
Free in-office laundry room for employee convenience
Wide selection of complimentary beverages
Open concept office space with standing desks and ergonomic chairs
Office dogs
IN-OFFICE
All of our employees are expected to work from our office in Burnsville, Minnesota. Please do not apply unless you are already living in the local Twin Cities area, or plan on moving here without financial assistance.