Follain leads the movement toward healthier personal care by curating and creating the best products on follain.com and in a growing number of stores across the country. We believe everyone deserves to experience the power of clean beauty. Do you want to join our mission to change the wildly unregulated and unhealthy beauty industry, for good?

The Follain Merchandising team is currently in search of a Merchandising Intern (part-time, paid) to join our team in January. This role will support our Merchandising team and work closely with internal leaders and our brand partners to drive product onboarding, product reporting and product success across the company.

This role is for January 2020 through April 2020. We are flexible on days of the week (between Monday-Friday), but require a commitment of approximately 20 hours per week. 

Responsibilities:

• Support Merchandising team with placing purchase orders
• Assist in tracking and prioritizing open purchase orders
• Support Merchandising team with new product set-up and testing review process
• Help organize samples and tracking process
• Complete new item and brand training documents
• Complete new product ingredient files and image uploads
• Support reporting needs on a weekly and monthly basis

Requirements:

• Strong business acumen through classes, internships or prior work experience
• Organized “doer” with ability to multitask, take initiative, own, and execute projects
• Solution-oriented critical thinker with the ability to balance multiple projects and navigate occasionally competing priorities
• Self-motivated with critical attention to detail, deadlines and reporting
• High degree of proficiency in MS Office Suite, specifically Excel
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to present ideas, conclusions and recommendations with clarity
• Strong follow through with ability to work independently
• Flexible/adaptable to work in a highly collaborative start-up environment
• Strong attention to detail and highly organized