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Reports to: Director, Global Merchandising
BDA brings the world’s biggest brands to life through promotional merchandise. Fortune 500 companies come to us to connect with their consumers on an emotional level. We create three-dimensional advertising that people invite into their homes, offices, cars, and classrooms allowing them to see, touch, and experience a brand in a way no other marketing can. We call it the Power of Merchandise.
Our culture is rooted in creativity, accountability, and collaboration. We take great pride in being a workplace that inspires teamwork and innovation while rewarding high achievement. With millions of branded items produced and delivered globally each year, BDA continues to set the standard for creativity, quality, and operational excellence in branded merchandise for the world’s most admired companies.
The Senior Manager, Merchandising is a key leader within BDA’s merchandising organization, responsible for leading and developing a team of merchandising professionals and driving merchandising strategy and execution across assigned clients and categories.
Reporting to the Director, Global Merchandising, this role provides day-to-day leadership for the merchandising team, setting priorities, establishing clear accountability, and ensuring the team delivers strong product strategies and assortments that meet client and business objectives. The Senior Manager works closely with New Business Development, Client Services, Design, Global Sourcing, Merchandise Planning, Purchasing, and Operations to connect client needs, product opportunities, financial performance, and execution.
This leader brings strong merchandising expertise and product knowledge to the business, using trends, client insights, and performance data to guide the team’s decisions, identify opportunities, and continuously improve merchandise programs. The Senior Manager also plays an active role with clients, participating in business reviews, product presentations, strategic discussions, and new-business opportunities while developing a high-performing merchandising team that can support BDA’s continued growth.
People Leadership: Builds strong teams, sets clear expectations, provides meaningful feedback, develops talent, and creates accountability for results.
Merchandising Leadership: Brings strong product instincts, category knowledge, and merchandising expertise and uses that knowledge to guide the team and improve client programs.
Client Partnership: Understands client brands and business objectives and helps the team translate them into strong merchandise strategies and solutions.
Business & Financial Acumen: Understands how merchandising decisions impact revenue, margin, inventory, and overall program performance.
Collaboration & Influence: Builds effective partnerships across functions and brings teams together around shared priorities and outcomes.
Decision Making: Uses data, experience, and judgment to make decisions, establish priorities, and move work forward.
Execution & Accountability: Creates clarity around ownership and expectations and ensures commitments are delivered.
Change Leadership: Helps teams adapt to growth, changing priorities, new processes, and evolving client needs.
Budget Accountability: Full accountability for merchandising budgets, COGS, and category-level margin management. Partners with Finance and Operations to ensure accurate forecasting and profitability tracking.
Reports: 2-4 directs
Travel Requirements: 10-15% travel for client meetings, business reviews, new-business pitches, tradeshows, and vendor visits.
Work Schedule & Location: Based at BDA Headquarters (Woodinville, WA) with flexibility in accordance with company policy. Global collaboration will require occasional early morning or evening meetings to align with time zones.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the sourcing backbone of a global company on track to reach $1B in revenue. You will be joining a culture that values creativity, operational excellence, and bold leadership all while driving the innovation, partnerships, and performance that define the Power of Merchandise.
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We are pleased to share the base salary range for this position is $145,000 to $155,000 with additional yearly bonus incentives. If you are hired at BDA, your compensation will be determined based on factors that may include geographic location, skills, education, and experience. In addition to these factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any offer. In the spirit of pay transparency, the range listed is the full base salary range for the role and hiring at the top of the range would not be typical, in order to allow for future salary growth. The range listed is just one component of BDA’s total compensation and rewards programs, which includes: robust PTO; vacation, a paid volunteer day, holidays and summer Fridays, Benefits; medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance, 401k; tuition reimbursement, mental health and financial wellness programs and professional development opportunities including tuition reimbursement. Certain revenue-generating positions may be eligible for incentive compensation.
BDA is more than a workplace - it’s a family. For more than four decades we’ve promoted a vibrant and welcoming culture that not only accepts but demands you to be different. The quirky, the bold, the creative and the unique make up the foundation of a company that the most iconic brands in the world look to help tell their story through the power of merchandise.
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Bensussen Deutsch & Associates, LLC (BDA) is a global Merchandise Agency™ providing customized marketing, branded merchandise, e-commerce, and fulfillment solutions for iconic sports organizations, entertainment properties and Fortune 1000 enterprises. With over 40 years of experience, BDA brings brands closer to their customers by providing highly engaging promotional products and branded merchandise experiences. Renowned clients across automotive, sports, technology, entertainment, medical, fitness, and beverage industries rely on BDA to activate, inspire, and promote their events, employees, and brands. BDA is the largest, independently owned branded merchandise agency with operations in over 50 locations worldwide.
