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Manager, Merchandising & Brand Partnerships

Soko GlamSeoul, South Korea | %Label_position_type_remote_% | Remote, Hybrid, Onsite

MANAGER, MERCHANDISING & BRAND PARTNERSHIPS


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Location:

Seolleung, South Korea
๐Ÿ“… Contract Duration: 6โ€“12 months (Flexible)๐Ÿ•’ Estimated Hours: ~40 hours/week๐Ÿ“ฉ

Reports to:

Vice President, Merchandising & Marketing
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Contract Type:

Independent Contractor (Monthly retainer; competitive contractor rate)

About Soko Glam


Soko Glam is a leading curator and distributor of Korean beauty products with a mission to help all people believe there are only good (skin) days ahead. Since 2012, weโ€™ve brought K-beauty to the global stage through thoughtful curation, education, and authentic storytelling. Our global footprint spans e-commerce, wholesale, and international retail partnerships.

About the Role


The Manager of Merchandising & Brand Partnerships will lead efforts to develop and execute merchandising strategies and build strong brand relationships that drive growth in the U.S. and global markets. This role is responsible for identifying, securing, and managing brand partners, analyzing performance metrics, and aligning closely with cross-functional teams across the U.S. and South Korea. The ideal candidate is strategic, analytical, and experienced in the beauty category, with a deep understanding of K-beauty and both retailer and e-commerce operations.

Key Responsibilities


  • Identify and negotiate new brand partnerships and develop curated assortments aligned with company goals.
  • Maintain and grow existing brand relationships through strategic account support, including business reviews, performance optimization, and SKU expansion.
  • Work cross-functionally with U.S. and Korean Merchandising, Marketing, Operations, and CX teams to coordinate product launches and marketing initiatives.
  • Analyze category and SKU-level performance to inform assortment and discontinuation strategies.
  • Lead the development and launch of exclusive sets or new SKUs in collaboration with brand partners and internal stakeholders.
  • Conduct market research and competitor analysis to support strategic decision-making and brand positioning.
  • Provide weekly, monthly, and quarterly KPI reporting and insights to internal teams and brand partners.
  • Act as a liaison between Korean brand partners and U.S. teams to ensure communication is clear, timely, and actionable.

Qualifications


  • Bachelorโ€™s degree required
  • 4โ€“5 years of relevant experience in merchandising, buying, or brand management (beauty industry preferred)
  • Bilingual fluency in Korean and English (verbal and written)
  • Strong understanding of the Korean beauty industry, product development, and retail landscape
  • E-commerce experience and familiarity with the U.S. retail and distribution environment
  • Proven track record in brand relationship management and business development
  • Strong analytical, project management, and communication skills
  • Proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs) and retail math
  • Highly organized, self-driven, and comfortable working in a fast-paced global environment

Additional Notes


This is an independent contractor role. The selected contractor will operate with autonomy and discretion in how work is completed, while remaining responsible for fulfilling agreed-upon deliverables and timelines. While Soko Glam may propose general collaboration windows to facilitate communication with internal stakeholders and external partners, the contractor retains control over their schedule.The contractor will also:

  • Submit a monthly invoice for services rendered, in accordance with the scope of work and hours mutually agreed upon.
  • Not be subject to performance evaluations, annual reviews, or other assessments typically associated with an employment relationship.
  • Not be eligible for employee benefits, including paid leave, severance, health insurance, or retirement contributions.
  • Utilize their own tools, equipment, and resources in the performance of services, unless otherwise agreed upon for operational efficiency (e.g., the use of a company email address for brand and communication consistency).

This position is classified as an independent contractor engagement and does not constitute an employment relationship under the Labor Standards Act of South Korea.

๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ๋ฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ € (ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ง)


๐Ÿ“ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์ง€: ๋Œ€ํ•œ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์„œ์šธ (์„ ๋ฆ‰) ๐Ÿ“… ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„: 6~12๊ฐœ์›” (์กฐ์ • ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ) ๐Ÿ•’ ์˜ˆ์ƒ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์‹œ๊ฐ„: ์ฃผ๋‹น ์•ฝ 40์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๐Ÿ“ฉ ๋ณด๊ณ  ๋Œ€์ƒ: ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ๋ฐ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ์žฅ ๐Ÿ’ผ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ํ˜•ํƒœ: ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ง (์›” ๋‹จ์œ„ ๊ณ ์ • ์ˆ˜์ˆ˜๋ฃŒ / ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ๋ ฅ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ณด์ˆ˜ ์กฐ๊ฑด)

ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์†Œ๊ฐœ


Soko Glam์€ K-๋ทฐํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ์†Œ๊ฐœํ•˜๊ณ ์ž 2012๋…„์— ์„ค๋ฆฝ๋œ ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์ œํ’ˆ ํ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋ฐ ์œ ํ†ต ์ „๋ฌธ ๊ธฐ์—…์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. โ€˜์ข‹์€ ํ”ผ๋ถ€์˜ ๋‚ ์€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌ์—๊ฒŒ๋‚˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹คโ€™๋Š” ๋ฏธ์…˜ ์•„๋ž˜, ์‹ ์ค‘ํ•œ ์ œํ’ˆ ํ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜, ๊ต์œก ์ฝ˜ํ…์ธ , ์ง„์ •์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์Šคํ† ๋ฆฌํ…”๋ง์„ ํ†ตํ•ด K-๋ทฐํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ์ „ ์„ธ๊ณ„์— ์•Œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์žฌ ์ด์ปค๋จธ์Šค, ๋„๋งค, ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ์„ ์•„์šฐ๋ฅด๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์œ ํ†ต ์ฑ„๋„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์ž…์ง€๋ฅผ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ํฌ์ง€์…˜ ๊ฐœ์š”


๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง• ๋ฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ €๋Š” Soko Glam์˜ ์ƒํ’ˆ ์ „๋žต ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝ ๋ฐ ์‹คํ–‰, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ „๋žต์  ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฐ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์‹œ์žฅ์—์„œ์˜ ์„ฑ์žฅ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ธํ•˜๋Š” ํ•ต์‹ฌ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ฐœ๊ตด, ๊ณ„์•ฝ ์ฒด๊ฒฐ, ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ถ„์„, SKU ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋“ฑ์„ ํฌํ•จํ•œ ์ „๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์šด์˜์„ ๋‹ด๋‹นํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณผ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์˜ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋ถ€์„œ์™€ ๊ธด๋ฐ€ํžˆ ํ˜‘์—…ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. K-๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ๋ฐ ์ด์ปค๋จธ์Šค์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ์ดํ•ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ•œ ์ „๋žต์  ์‚ฌ๊ณ ์™€ ์‹คํ–‰๋ ฅ์ด ์š”๊ตฌ๋˜๋Š” ์—ญํ• ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ฃผ์š” ์—…๋ฌด


  • ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์™€ ์—ฐ๊ณ„๋œ SKU ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ๋ฐ ์‹ ๊ทœ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ ๋ฐœ๊ตด ๋ฐ ๊ณ„์•ฝ ํ˜‘์ƒ
  • ์ •๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ, ์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ตœ์ ํ™”, SKU ํ™•์žฅ ๋“ฑ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ธฐ์กด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ์™€์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„ ์œ ์ง€ ๋ฐ ์„ฑ์žฅ
  • ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง•, ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ…, ์šด์˜, ๊ณ ๊ฐ๊ฒฝํ—˜ ํŒ€๊ณผ ํ˜‘์—…ํ•˜์—ฌ ์ œํ’ˆ ๋ก ์นญ ๋ฐ ๋งˆ์ผ€ํŒ… ์บ ํŽ˜์ธ ์‹คํ–‰
  • ์นดํ…Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ SKU๋ณ„ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ถ„์„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ’ˆ๋ชฉ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ ๋ฐ ๋‹จ์ข… ์ „๋žต ์ˆ˜๋ฆฝ
  • ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๋ฐ ๋‚ด๋ถ€ ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„์ž์™€์˜ ํ˜‘์—…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์ œํ’ˆ ๋˜๋Š” ๋‹จ๋… ์„ธํŠธ ๊ธฐํš ๋ฐ ์ถœ์‹œ ์ฃผ๋„
  • ์‹œ์žฅ ์กฐ์‚ฌ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์‚ฌ ๋ถ„์„์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ „๋žต ๋ฐ ํ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜ ๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์ œ์‹œ
  • ์ฃผ๊ฐ„, ์›”๊ฐ„, ๋ถ„๊ธฐ๋ณ„ KPI ๋ฆฌํฌํŠธ ์ž‘์„ฑ ๋ฐ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ์ œ๊ณต
  • ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์™€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ํŒ€ ๊ฐ„์˜ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜ ํ—ˆ๋ธŒ ์—ญํ•  ์ˆ˜ํ–‰

์ž๊ฒฉ ์š”๊ฑด


  • ํ•™์‚ฌ ํ•™์œ„ ํ•„์ˆ˜
  • ๋จธ์ฒœ๋‹ค์ด์ง•, ๋ฐ”์ž‰, ๋˜๋Š” ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๊ด€๋ จ ๊ฒฝ๋ ฅ 4~5๋…„ (๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์—…๊ณ„ ์šฐ๋Œ€)
  • ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ๋ฐ ์˜์–ด ๋ชจ๋‘ ๋Šฅํ†ต (๋ง/๊ธ€)
  • ํ•œ๊ตญ ๋ทฐํ‹ฐ ์‚ฐ์—… ๋ฐ ์œ ํ†ต ๊ตฌ์กฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๊นŠ์€ ์ดํ•ด
  • ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ด์ปค๋จธ์Šค ๋ฐ ๋ฆฌํ…Œ์ผ ์œ ํ†ต ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ดํ•ด
  • ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ํŒŒํŠธ๋„ˆ์‹ญ ๋ฐ ๋น„์ฆˆ๋‹ˆ์Šค ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๊ฒฝํ—˜
  • ๋›ฐ์–ด๋‚œ ๋ถ„์„๋ ฅ, ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ๋Šฅ๋ ฅ, ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜ ์Šคํ‚ฌ
  • Excel ํ™œ์šฉ ๋Šฅ์ˆ™์ž (ํ”ผ๋ฒ— ํ…Œ์ด๋ธ”, VLOOKUP ๋“ฑ), ์†Œ๋งค ์ˆ˜ํ•™ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ ์ดํ•ด
  • ์ฒด๊ณ„์ ์ด๊ณ  ๋…๋ฆฝ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ํ™˜๊ฒฝ์—์„œ์˜ ์œ ์—ฐ์„ฑ ๋ณด์œ 

๊ธฐํƒ€ ์•ˆ๋‚ด์‚ฌํ•ญ


๋ณธ ํฌ์ง€์…˜์€ ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ง์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ž๋Š” ์•„๋ž˜์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ์กฐ๊ฑด ํ•˜์— ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค:

  • ์ƒํ˜ธ ํ•ฉ์˜๋œ ์—…๋ฌด ๋ฒ”์œ„ ๋ฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋งค์›” ์ธ๋ณด์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ์ œ์ถœํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ๊ทผ๋กœ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ฏ€๋กœ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ํ‰๊ฐ€, ์—ฐ๊ฐ„ ๋ฆฌ๋ทฐ, ์Šน์ง„ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ธ์‚ฌ์ œ๋„๋Š” ์ ์šฉ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์œ ๊ธ‰ ํœด๊ฐ€, ํ‡ด์ง๊ธˆ, ๊ฑด๊ฐ•๋ณดํ—˜, ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ๋“ฑ ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์ธ ์ง์› ๋ณต๋ฆฌํ›„์ƒ์€ ์ œ๊ณต๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • ์—…๋ฌด ์ˆ˜ํ–‰์— ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์žฅ๋น„ ๋ฐ ๋ฆฌ์†Œ์Šค๋Š” ๋ณธ์ธ์ด ์ œ๊ณตํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ ๋ธŒ๋žœ๋“œ ์ผ๊ด€์„ฑ๊ณผ ์ปค๋ฎค๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด์…˜ ํšจ์œจ์„ฑ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ด๋ฉ”์ผ ๊ณ„์ •์„ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.
  • Soko Glam์€ ์›ํ™œํ•œ ํ˜‘์—…์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ธฐ๋ณธ์ ์ธ ํ˜‘์—… ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋Œ€๋ฅผ ์ œ์•ˆํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์œผ๋‚˜, ๊ณ„์•ฝ์ž๋Š” ์ž์œจ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ผ์ •์„ ์กฐ์œจํ•˜์—ฌ ์—…๋ฌด๋ฅผ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

โ€ป ๋ณธ ํฌ์ง€์…˜์€ ใ€Œ๊ทผ๋กœ๊ธฐ์ค€๋ฒ•ใ€์ƒ ๊ณ ์šฉ๊ณ„์•ฝ ๊ด€๊ณ„์— ํ•ด๋‹นํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ํ”„๋ฆฌ๋žœ์„œ ๊ณ„์•ฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋ถ„๋ฅ˜๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Life at Soko Glam

Soko Glam is your most trusted online beauty shop and lifestyle brand with the best selection of Korean beauty products and content. Based in New York City, the Soko Glam team travels to Seoul regularly to scour the Korean skin care and makeup market, consult industry/product experts, and meet tastemakers to bring back a selection of beauty products that are truly tried used and trusted by Korean women and genuine beauty innovations. Soko Glam's Co-Founder and Curator is Charlotte Cho, who is (among other awesome things) a board certified esthetician and the author of The Little Book of Skin Care: Korean Beauty Secrets for Healthy, Glowing Skin. She personally tests and reviews every single product before it is selected for the Soko Glam community. Soko Glam launched in 2012 and is the pioneer in K-Beauty in the U.S. and one of the fastest growing brands in New York City. Known for popularizing the 10-Step Korean Skin Care Routine, Soko Glam has been featured in major publications including The New York Times, Vogue, Elle, Allure, Into The Gloss, Bloomberg, Refinery29, and more, helping millions adapt the Korean รขโ‚ฌล“skin-firstรขโ‚ฌย philosophy to their daily routine. Here at Soko Glam, we are a lean team that packs a BIG punch. We move fast, smart, and like to think outside the box - challenging the status quo. We do things differently, pioneer the way, and continue to innovate at every stage of our company. We're obsessed with providing our community a personal, trustworthy, and overall awesome experience. Our Mission: To help all people believe there are only good (skin) days ahead If you're a great fit for the Team Soko Glam, open positions can be found on our careers page at sokoglam.com or visit https://angel.co/sokoglam. If you are interested to collaborate with Soko Glam, please reach out to partnerships@sokoglam.com If you are a retailer interested in carry brands on Soko Glam, please contact retail@sokoglam.com or orders@sokoglam.com
Thrive Here & What We Value- Beauty curation with diversity celebration- Transformative skincare experiences- Equal employment opportunity for all- Competitive compensation package (medical insurance, 401K, PTO, life insurance, long term disability)- Small agile team with performance-based pay progression- Opportunities for selfexpression and inclusivity- Veteran or military status support- Disability accommodations- Caregiver benefits- Unemployment protection

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