Merchandise Manager

Merchandise Manager

ARIS is a student initiative based at ETH Zürich (Dübendorf) that inspires students across Switzerland to gain hands-on space-related project experience and contribute to space-related project challenges through academic and industry collaborations. As part of the business team, you will tackle the challenge of enhancing our competition systems, growing our team, and building our network.

From the technical side, ARIS is currently making progress on several exciting projects, including developing a hybrid rocket engine with a guided recovery system for the European Rocketry Challenge in Portugal. Additionally, ARIS is developing a CubeSat with the SAGE project and working on the Karman rocket project to build a rocket capable of flying up to 100 km. We are also building a biliquid engine test stand to further our research and development in this field.

On the business side, ARIS has been expanding its team in areas such as marketing, finance, and HR, and collaborating with new academic partners to provide the best possible framework for all engineering projects.

The goal of the business team is to constantly develop processes to address ongoing growth. To achieve our ambitious projects and continue our exciting growth, we require a motivated Merchandise Manager who can contribute to the team by enhancing competition systems, growing our team, and building our network.

As a Merchandise Manager for ARIS, you would also be responsible for interacting with our support Track 13 who make our merch. This would include:

• Providing design and product specifications: You would need to provide design and product specifications to Track 13 to ensure that merchandise is produced to ARIS’ quality standards.
• Quality control: You would be responsible for ensuring that merchandise produced by Track 13 meets ARIS’ quality standards, and that any issues are addressed promptly.
• Communication and collaboration: You would need to communicate and collaborate effectively with Track 13, providing feedback and guidance as needed to ensure that merchandise is produced to ARIS’ specifications.
• Budget management: You would be responsible for managing the merchandise budget, including negotiating prices with Track 13 and ensuring that production costs remain within budget.

Overall, your role as a Merchandise Manager for ARIS would involve interacting with Track 13 to ensure that merchandise is produced to ARIS’ quality standards. You would need to be an effective communicator and collaborator, with strong project management and budget management skills.

Expectations

As a team member, we expect you to:

• Attend team meetings and workshops at Switzerland Innovation Park in Dübendorf, ZH
• Be proactive and take responsibility for your work
• Embrace failure, learn from it and move forward
• Take ownership of your projects and tasks
• Collaborate closely with both the business and engineering teams as well as the board.

We believe that with these expectations, you will be able to contribute effectively to the team and help ARIS achieve its goals.

What do you get?

By participating in this unique challenge, you will:

• Project management skills, including managing the merchandise development process from start to finish.
• Vendor management skills, including negotiating prices, maintaining quality standards, and addressing issues.
• Understanding of retail operations and merchandising best practices.
• Budget management skills, including managing the merchandise budget and negotiating prices with vendors.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, including providing feedback and guidance to vendors.
• Quality control skills, ensuring that merchandise meets ARIS’ quality standards.

Project start: as soon as possible

Duration: 2 semesters (autumn 2023 & spring 2024)

Working hours: 3 – 5h/week or per project

Please be informed that your work will be entirely voluntary. As we are a student project, we do not offer any paid employment. But you will be able to proof your practical experience in your CV.

Any questions? Get in touch.

We look forward to hearing from you! Please submit a complete application, including CV. If you have any questions, please reach us on hr@aris-space.ch.

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