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Overview

This job contributes to REI’s success by supporting the current and future critical business capabilities that will enable REI’s future Merchandising & Co-op Brands to successfully deliver on initiatives and strategies to meet evolving customer needs. Utilizing your strong collaboration skills and merchandising background, you will work with Merchandising & Co-op Brands teams, as well as with Information Technology and the greater REI business community to design, deliver and support ground-breaking business capabilities.

The BPA role participates in future solution design while playing a primary support role on current Merchandising & Co-op Brands applications. Acts as a subject matter expert on Merchandising & Co-op Brands business processes, systems and tools. Utilizing your strong communication skills, you will advocate for the interests of Merchandising & Co-op Brands teams on cross-divisional projects. Coordinates carefully with cross-divisional partners and provides inputs to Change Management and Training activities.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

+ Contributes to business process design workshops, advocating for business users, understanding and enabling industry leading best practices across multiple merchandising disciplines.

+ Partners with technology teams to support all Merchandising & Co-op Brands strategies and initiatives.

+ Develop and maintain a complete working knowledge and documentation of Merchandising & Co-op Brands current and future processes, gaps/pain points, and applications (including business functionality, interfaces, data flow, and functional architecture).

+ Prepare requirements, functional specifications, user stories, business processes, and requests for proposals (RFPs) associated with Merchandising & Co-op Brands projects.

+ May participate in the design or development of division-specific tools. May administer systems and tools used by Merchandising & Co-op Brands teams.

+ Supports medium sized projects in collaboration with cross divisional partners, most significantly Merchandising & Co-op Brands Information Technology (IT)

+ Participate in all project status meetings as business lead; daily stand-ups, sprint retrospectives and sprint demonstrations for Agile projects and all other project meetings as required.

+ Supports meeting project deadlines, milestones, release dates and schedules

+ Contribute to backlog grooming/prioritization sessions to ensure sign-off by business and development teams

+ Contribute to dashboards, reports, presentations and visual aids designed to educate, inform and influence business decisions of merchants and business leaders

+ Develop and build test cases, work with QA teams, and conduct User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with end-users.

+ Develop end-user documentation and assist with training and rollout plans for new systems, or enhancements to existing systems as determined by direct Manager and/or Change Management lead.

Qualifications

+ 3+ years of progressive experience in Merchandising, product design & development, operations, process improvement or similar for related business units

+ Advanced computer skills, to include Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Visio, Word, PowerPoint, Project, SharePoint), Jira

+ Knowledge/proficiency with Excel VBA, SQL, or other programming languages

+ Strong analytical, business process, communication and business acumen skills

+ Demonstrated experience with facilitating end-user sessions

+ Demonstrated ability to self-educate and learn while doing

+ Project management skills including ability to create individual action plans and timelines, and complete action items in a timely manner

+ Uses business knowledge, innovative thinking, and sound judgment in the solution of problems or the pursuit of business opportunities

Closing

**At REI, we believe the outdoors is for all.** We are committed to becoming a fully inclusive, anti-racist, multicultural organization. We know that there's strength in our diversity – that each employee brings unique skills, experiences, and perspectives. Every day you are driving change, fostering a culture of respect, and knowing you're backed by benefits that support your whole life. To work towards this commitment and fulfill our brand promise of inspiring and enabling a life outside for everyone, we seek employees who demonstrate different ways of working, create a sense of belonging, and actively listen and learn.

Pay Transparency

We are committed to practices that promote pay equity and transparency. As required by applicable Pay Transparency laws, REI provides a range of compensation for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location or other relevant factors.

REI offers all regular employees a generous employee discount, access to health benefits, a retirement savings plan and accrued time off. Click here (https://foryourbenefit-rei.com/) for a detailed overview of benefits plans by employee profile.

Pay Range

$85,400.00 - $120,700.00 per year