Team Town Sports is a proudly Canadian retailer, dedicated to supporting athletes of all ages and skill levels.
From hockey and soccer to baseball, basketball, we offer the best gear for over 13 sports and expert services for those who play to compete and play for fun.
As part of Sporting Life Group, alongside Sporting Life and Golf Town, we are the home for all team sports athletes.
Why Work Here?
- Access to our benefits package, with the choice of different levels of health, dental, and vision coverage to suit you.
- Employee discounts at Golf Town, Sporting Life, and Team Town Sports that are shareable with friends and family.
- Team-first culture that celebrates an active, sports lifestyle.
- Fun, fast-paced hybrid environment where your passion for sport and style belongs.
- Vendor Pro Deals and expert product training to fuel your knowledge and performance.
- A salary range of $55,000 - $60,000 (dependent on experience), bonus, and opportunities to grow your career in the sports lifestyle.
What You’ll Do;
As a Merchandising Analyst with Team Town Sports, you’ll play a key role in supporting the Buyer within our Apparel category.
This role sits at the intersection of data, inventory, and execution, ensuring product is accurately set up, well-balanced, and flowing to the right stores at the right time to drive profitable sales.
You’ll own purchase order maintenance, item data accuracy, and inventory allocation across the network, while providing insight through reporting and analysis. If you enjoy working with detail, partnering cross-functionally, and using data to influence outcomes, this is a role where your work will be felt daily.
- Supporting the Buyer with day-to-day merchandising and category initiatives
- Maintaining and tracking purchase orders, including updates, closures, cancellations, and bulk POs
- Managing accurate item setup and ongoing SKU maintenance across multiple systems and web assortments
- Executing markdowns and system updates with appropriate approvals
- Building and maintaining reports, including size curve, sales, margin, and inventory analysis
- Managing inventory replenishment, allocation, and forecasting for core SKUs across all stores
- Allocating inventory to support promotions and seasonal requirements, ensuring stores are in-stock to meet demand
- Analysing SKU- and store-level performance to balance sales, inventory productivity, and Open to Buy
- Partnering with vendors to confirm inventory availability, manage shipments, and track deliveries
- Working closely with Store Operations to provide timely updates, resolve issues, and support execution
- Supporting assortment planning by door/network through analysis and reporting
- Ensuring daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly merchandising checklists are completed and reviewed
What You’ll Bring;
- Post-secondary education (University preferred) with a focus on retail, marketing or finance
- 3-5 years’ work experience in retail planning, buying or merchandising
- Experience in data entry and data management with high level of accuracy
- Ability to process information/merchandise through order entry systems (Mircosoft Dynamics 365/D365)
- Be customer centric; listening, understanding and responding to customer needs while being committed to the customer first philosophy; this applies to both internal and external customers
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Detailed orientated with a sense of urgency to follow-up
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to multi-task and easily adapt to current business trends; ability to work in a fast-paced, team environment
AI is used as part of our application review process to assist in screening and assessment. All applications are also reviewed by our recruitment team.
This posting is for an open existing role in our organization.
Sporting Life Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, please advise the Sporting Life Group Human Resources team of any accommodations required to ensure fair and equitable access through the recruitment and selection process.
