Merchandising / Category Managers Specialist

Turing

RemoteContract & freelance
Design and evaluate retail scenarios and benchmark solutions for merchandising. About Turing Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.

About the role

Design and evaluate retail scenarios and benchmark solutions for merchandising. About Turing

Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.

Turing helps customers in two ways: Working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM, and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Merchandising & Category Management Subject Matter Expert (SME) to design, evaluate, and calibrate high-fidelity domain tasks, retail scenarios, and benchmark solutions.

Depending on your depth of retail experience, candidates will be considered for an Expert Contributor (Merchandising / Category Manager) or a Senior Specialist / Reviewer (Senior Merchandising / Category Manager) track within our functional evaluation pods.

Requirements

Experience: 3–15 years of hands-on experience in retail merchandising, buying, category management, or inventory allocation.

Core Competencies:

Demonstrated expertise in assortment architecture, product allocation, and merchandise financial planning.

Practical experience creating and analyzing assortment plans, visual planograms, and promotional calendars.

Strong command of foundational retail calculations (GMROI, turn, markdowns, margin impact, weeks of supply).

Execution & Communication:

Proven ability to work under peer review, adapt quickly to calibration feedback, and adhere to structured rubrics.

Strong written communication skills to articulate clear solution rationales and step-by-step methodology breakdowns.

Responsibilities

Benchmark Task Authoring: Design realistic, high-difficulty retail exercises, assortment planning scenarios, promotional strategy models, and planogram challenges with gold-standard solution sets. …

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