Job Description

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Trade Merchandising Associate Manager

The Trade Merchandising Associate Manager oversees and executes retail merchandising projects that drive in-store sales and elevate the customer experience. This role manages projects end to end, partnering closely with cross-functional internal teams and external vendor partners to deliver creative, cost-effective displays that meet timelines, budgets, and program objectives within an omni-channel retail environment.

The Basics

• Duration: 4 months
• Hours: The position is expected to be full-time at approximately 40 hours per week.
• Location: Hybrid role with work from home on Mondays and Fridays and onsite work Tuesday through Thursday at a Pawtucket-area office.

Top Three Required Qualifications

• Proven project management expertise with the ability to lead end-to-end merchandising or retail projects, manage multiple workstreams simultaneously, and deliver against tight timelines and budget requirements.
• Exceptional attention to detail, including strong organizational skills and the ability to accurately maintain project documentation, trackers, budgets, and timelines across multiple stakeholders.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrated experience partnering cross-functionally and effectively managing expectations with both internal teams and external vendor partners.

Other Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a relevant field
• 5+ years of project management experience; experience supporting retail or trade merchandising initiatives; consumer packaged goods experience, with toy or game industry exposure a plus
• Ability to prioritize and deliver under tight timelines and budget constraints; project management certifications are a plus
• Experience Smartsheet and Adobe Frame.io is a plus
• Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage merchandising projects end to end, from initial concept and kickoff through approvals, design adjustments, production, shipping, and in-market activation.
• Maintain project trackers, shared drives, databases, and budgets while ensuring alignment across all stakeholders.
• Partner with sales, marketing, finance, and product teams to develop innovative, cost-effective retail merchandising solutions.
• Proactively identify risks, troubleshoot issues, and communicate status updates to internal operational teams to keep projects on track.
• Lead weekly project management calls with internal teams and external vendors to drive accountability and maintain strong working relationships.
• Apply a results-oriented, detail-focused approach to decision making in fast-paced and ambiguous situations while enthusiastically supporting a broad portfolio of consumer products through retail displays.

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

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For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.This is a new role.

This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 03/25/2026 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.

Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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