Retail Category Merchandiser

About the Role As a Retail Category Merchandiser at Salomon, you will connect category strategy to in-store execution across the Retail network. You will translate product strategies into assortments tailored to different store formats, balancing consumer insights, business objectives, and Retail realities within an international, cross-functional environment. You will collaborate with Category Merchandising, Product, Retail, Sales, Planning, and Visual Merchandising to bring the category to life.

What You'll Do

• Translate seasonal merchandising strategies into retail assortments aligned with business priorities and store formats.
• Build product assortments with appropriate breadth and depth to deliver a strong in-store consumer experience.
• Define Retail assortment principles aligned with category strategies.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between Retail assortments, the master calendar, and key product launches.
• Contribute to evolution of the Retail operating model, including store formats, segmentation, and store clustering initiatives.
• Monitor and analyze key Retail KPIs—including sales, margin, inventory, sell-through, and stock rotation—to identify assortment optimization opportunities.
• Support merchandising objectives across channels, both pre-season planning and in-season management.
• Leverage sell-out analysis to continuously refine and optimize Retail assortments.
• Work closely with commercial teams and regional markets to ensure local needs are reflected in Retail assortments.
• Influence and align stakeholders around merchandising recommendations based on data, consumer insights, and business priorities.
• Develop and formalize Retail merchandising tools, methodologies, and processes.
• Create and share assortment planning guidelines to drive consistency and best practices across the organization.
• Support teams in adopting new Retail Merchandising tools, processes, and ways of working.

What We're Looking For

• Experience in retail merchandising or category merchandising within an international/cross-functional environment.
• Strong ability to translate category strategy into assortments and to align with the master calendar and product launches.
• Proficiency in assortment planning, KPI monitoring (sales, margin, inventory, sell-through, rotation), and inventory optimization.
• Proven cross-functional collaboration with commercial teams, regional markets, Planning, Product, and Visual Merchandising.
• Ability to develop and formalize merchandising tools, methodologies, and processes; create guidelines for consistency.
• Customer-focused mindset with ability to balance breadth and depth across store formats.
• Analytical and data-driven, with experience leveraging sell-out analyses to optimize assortments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to Have

• Experience with retail operating models and store clustering initiatives.
• Multilingual capabilities and experience working in a multinational organization.

Compensation & Benefits

• Not disclosed in the posting. Salomon emphasizes a dynamic, international retail environment with a focus on sustainable outdoor performance.