Apparel Merchandiser & Brand Activation

Job Title: Apparel Merchandiser & Brand Activation – Sun Mountain Sports

Reports To: Director of Product

Location: Missoula, MT or Carlsbad, CA | Approximately 15–25% travel

Salary Range: $60,000–$90,000, depending on experience, plus bonus opportunity

Company

Description:

Sun Mountain has been shaping how golfers carry, travel and play for more than 45 years. We are a leading golf brand across bags, travel gear, apparel and accessories, with a renewed focus on innovation, product, culture and growth. Trust. Quality. Reliability. (TQR) defines how we build products and how we operate. Golf State of Mind reflects where we are going as a brand.

Job Summary: Sun Mountain is looking for an apparel-focused merchandiser who can help connect Product, Sales and Marketing and bring a strong commercial point of view to our growing apparel business. Reporting directly to the Director of Product, this role supports assortment planning, SKU efficiency, demand and buy recommendations, product launches, market feedback and in-market execution. Apparel experience is strongly preferred;

accessories experience is a plus.

This is not a desk-only merchandising role. We want someone who is as interested in where golf culture is going as they are in what the numbers say. You should understand the game, follow the brands, personalities, places and trends shaping modern golf, and be curious about what golfers are wearing, buying, talking about and traveling to experience. Some days you will be deep in a sales or inventory file.

Other days you may be visiting an account, helping merchandise a sales meeting or independently representing Sun Mountain from a 10x10 booth at an industry event.

The role is designed for someone early in their career who wants broad exposure and real responsibility. The Director of Product owns product strategy, line architecture, development and final assortment decisions. This person helps make those decisions better by bringing commercial intelligence, disciplined follow-through and market feedback into the process—and then helping Product, Sales and Marketing execute together.

• Support the Director of Product in building seasonal apparel assortments, with additional exposure to accessories, across style, color, size, price point and channel.
• Own day-to-day SKU discipline and assortment productivity. Identify duplication, unnecessary complexity, gaps and opportunities to make the line tighter, more productive and easier to sell.
• Track apparel performance by style, color, size and channel, including sales, sell-through, weeks of supply, inventory, margin, reorders and aged inventory. Turn the data into clear recommendations on what to chase, hold, reduce, discontinue or expand.
• Partner with Sales and planning on seasonal and in-season buys and reorders using sales history, sell-through, weeks of supply, lead times, inventory position, account opportunities and future demand.
• Help build and maintain forecasts and buy recommendations at the style, color and size/SKU level, along with size curves, color buys and seasonal merchandising tools with a high level of accuracy.
• Support key-account and channel assortment planning, helping determine the right product, color and depth for wholesale, green grass, strategic accounts and DTC.
• Create a consistent feedback loop with sales reps, retailers, green-grass accounts and consumers and translate what they are seeing into useful product and merchandising recommendations.
• Serve as a day-to-day conduit between Product, Sales and Marketing, keeping teams aligned on product priorities, timing, samples, pricing, launch needs and follow-up.
• Help translate product into a clear commercial story: what matters, who it is for, why it wins and…