# Merchandise Manager - New Partnerships

> Activate Talent · Philippines (Remote) · — · Posted 2025-07-07

**Workplace:** remote

**Department:** 029

## Description

**Schedule:** Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm

**Location:** 100% Remote in South Africa

**Contract:** Independent Contractor

**What You'll be Doing**

The Merchandise Manager, New Partnerships will support a key strategic initiative to aggressively recruit new brands to the portfolio, reporting to the Director of Merchandising,

**As Merchandise Manager on a Typical Day, You'll**

-   Support the Lightopia business by targeting a provided list of 90-100 Lighting vendors to secure partnerships.
-   After firming up terms and conditions, quickly onboard vendors, setting them up in the system, obtaining the item setup form for processing.
-   Coordinate the on-site launch, submitting creative briefs for the banner and ensuring a good site experience.
-   Communicate new brand story and pass key marketing assets to the Merchandising and Marketing teams for launch campaign.
-   Pass continued relationship management off to the Merchandising Team.

**What You Bring to the Role**

-   Sense of urgency.
-   Ability to take ownership and drive results.
-   Exceptional reliability and follow through.
-   Being proactive with communication, as we work on remote teams.
-   Extremely organized.
-   Ability to think strategically and act tactically with excellent attention to detail.
-   Tenacity and grit to work through big ideas and problem solve down to the minute details.
-   Professionalism in written and verbal communication. Ability to communicate and present to all levels in the organization.
-   High participation in work sessions via Zoom or MS Teams, as we work in a highly collaborative environment.

## Requirements

**Qualifications and Requirements**

-   Undergraduate degree in Business Administration, Merchandising, Marketing or related field, or minimum 3 years relevant work experience.
-   Strong critical thinking, problem solving skills.
-   Able to build collaborative relationships with internal and external partners.
-   Sense of urgency, detail oriented, and able to provide clear and thorough communication.
-   Express ideas precisely, persuasively, and effectively.
-   Must be able to operate independently with minimal daily supervision.
-   Commitment to and passion for continuous improvement.
-   Experience with the following systems is preferred – Microsoft Office, Netsuite

**Our Purpose and Growth Culture:**

We are taking deliberate action to cultivate an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to tie spaces together with meaningful design. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key core values:

-   Team First - we collaborate and support each other
-   Whatever It Takes - we get it done
-   Win On Service - we do right by our customers
-   Be Curious - we seek creative, data-driven solutions

## Apply

[Apply at Activate Talent](https://apply.workable.com/careersactivatetalent/j/40B8808748/apply)

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