# WGU Store Strategist

**Company**: Western Governors University
**Location**: Salt Lake City, Utah
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $68,300.00 - $102,500.00
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

As the WGU Store Strategist, you will oversee a highly visible branded merchandise program that serves employees, students, and alumni through internal, external, pop-up, and custom-order channels.

Responsibilities:

- Own the strategic direction, product selection, and day-to-day merchandising operations for WGU's internal, external, pop-up, and custom-order store channels.

- Develop proactive inventory and assortment plans that improve product availability, introduce fresh designs, and support enterprise merchandise needs.

- Manage vendor relationships and fulfillment operations, including forecasting, reordering, product quality, order accuracy, and on-time delivery.

- Review SKU performance and determine when products should be reordered, marked down, discontinued, refreshed, or replaced.

- Oversee the custom merchandise ordering process and collaborate with partners across the organization.

- Lead merchandise strategy and execution for commencements, summits, town halls, and other major activations.

- Manage program reporting and budget oversight while ensuring merchandise meets WGU's brand and visual identity standards.

Requirements:

- 4 years of experience in branded merchandise, e-commerce, or retail buying.

- A bachelor's degree, or relevant professional experience in lieu of a degree.

- Strong financial acumen, including experience with budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting.

- Demonstrated project management, inventory planning, and organizational skills.

- A creative eye and the ability to evaluate merchandise for design quality and brand alignment.

- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

- A detail-oriented, low-ego approach with a strong sense of urgency and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare

- Health savings account and flexible spending account

- Basic and voluntary life insurance

- Disability coverage

- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages

- Legal and identity theft coverage

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Discounted WGU tuition

- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual

- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual

- 11 paid holidays

- Other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave

## Skills

### Required
- branded merchandise
- e-commerce
- retail buying
- budgeting
- forecasting
- project management
- inventory planning
- organizational skills
- communication
- collaboration

### Nice to have
- marketing communications campaigns
- e-commerce platforms
- ERP systems
- project management software
- technology integrations
- branded merchandise programs

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