at Creative Circle, LLC in Bolingbrook, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Merchandising Administrative Assistant
Position Overview
The Merchandising Administrative Assistant plays a vital role in supporting the merchandising team by managing administrative tasks, assisting with inventory management, and ensuring smooth operations within the department. This is a 4-month, 40 hours per week, contract role.
Key Responsibilities
- Log and organize brand submissions and samples and document feedback from core category teams
- Create new PowerPoint presentations for category review meetings
- Assist with brand meeting schedules and coordination.
- Daily email correspondence management with external and internal partners
- Manages the maintenance of SKUs by ensuring SKUs are accurate.. This includes shelf tag requests, description changes, brand charges, style codes, feature codes, store classification changes, product display pages and markdowns.
- Initiates and seeds offer for all promotions, utilizing print + master side by sides. Inputs all SKUs into offers and finalizes with pricing team
- Executes marketing sign requests and proofing, maintains organized product samples and proofs mag pages and digital assets for accuracy, inputs brand and item data into email and homepage wireframes
- Supports the planogram process by submitting pricing requests, new SKU setups, existing SKU coding changes, inputting markdowns, executing exit strategies (initiates RTV/DIF), and proofing graphics
- Prepares store memos/communication requests and responds to help desk ticket with proactive solutioning.
- Provides general administrative support for brand contact maintenance, brand/vendor meetings, and additional tasks as required
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in retail merchandising or relevant field preferred
- Strong organizational skills with a high level of attention to detail
- Professional accountability to timely delivery and quality execution
- Creative problem solver with an innovative mindset
- Strong collaborator with both internal and external brand partners
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel (v-look ups and formulas) and PowerPoint
- Ability to plan and prioritize effectively in a fast-moving business
- Passion for brands, products, and the development of assortments
- Strives to continuously improve the coordination of merchandising activities and tasks
- Professional communication skills
In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.
Benefits
Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.
Looking forward to receiving your resume through our website and going over the position with you. Clicking apply is the best way to apply, but you may also:
Email your resume in Word to:
donna.ruch@jobalert.creativecircle.com
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Donna Ruch - Senior Recruiter, National Delivery
For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.
This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 08/11/2025 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.
Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. United Healthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Creative Circle.
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