Merchandisers / Retail Merchandise

YNK is the orchestrator behind a family of consumer brands and the services that scale them, including our 3PL, brand studio, and growth teams. We operate as one team out of one office. Every brand in our portfolio gets the full weight of that machine.

The Role About YNK YNK is the orchestrator behind a family of consumer brands and the services that scale them, including our 3PL, brand studio, and growth teams. We operate as one team out of one office. Every brand in our portfolio gets the full weight of that machine.

The Role We're hiring a merchandising planner who is a beast at scaling consumer brands. A commercial athlete.

You'll own merchandising planning across a portfolio of brands. That means diving deep into one brand in the morning and switching to another by afternoon, holding each one's numbers in your head, and knowing what levers to pull. You'll analyze performance using your own skills and AI tools, and you'll be expected to be sharp with both.

This is a quantitative role with a commercial spine. You think in unit economics. You know what COGS, payment terms, and inventory turns do to cash. What You'll Do Own merchandising and demand planning across multiple brands, moving fluidly between them without losing depth on any

Analyze sell-through, inventory health, pricing, and assortment performance, and turn that analysis into buying and planning decisions

Build and maintain each brand's unit economics: COGS, landed costs, margin structure, contribution per unit and per channel

Negotiate and evaluate supplier terms, MOQs, and payment structures with a clear view of their cash and P&L impact

Contribute proactively to each brand's P&L: flag risks early, size opportunities, and push recommendations before anyone asks for them

Use AI tools aggressively in your workflow for forecasting, scenario modeling, and analysis, and keep raising the bar on how fast and well planning gets done

Partner daily with brand leads, our 3PL, and finance to keep plans grounded in operational reality

Who You Are 5+ years in merchandising planning, demand planning, or inventory/buying roles for consumer brands, ideally across DTC and retail

A track record of scaling brands, with numbers to prove it

Highly quantitative: advanced Excel/Sheets at minimum, and comfort with SQL, BI tools, or Python is a strong plus

Fluent in the financial side of merchandising: COGS, terms, working capital, cash conversion, contribution margin

Comfortable with context switching across brands at different stages, categories, and scales

What Success Looks Like Every brand in your portfolio has a living plan tied to its P&L, not a static forecast

Inventory is right‑sized: fewer stockouts, less dead stock, better cash position