Director Marketplace, Merchandising

What you’ll be doing:

• Work closely with marketplace, merchant, and supply chain departments to ensure alignment and efficiency.
• Develop and implement merchandising strategies that align our category merchant organization with rapidly evolving Marketplace opportunities.
• Work closely with data to help drive insights and direction for the team.
• Employ data to drive insights in real time.
• Analyze financial information to make decisions.
• Connect strategies driven by data insights to business operations.
• Consult closely with business partners within the organization.
• Analyze, develop and communicate near and medium-term strategic plan for product lines, considering cross-functional implications, including guiding the team on business plan execution.
• Develop a strategic business plan for each product line to achieve target revenue, margin, market share and inventory goals.
• Create innovative market-leading selling strategies leveraging presentation, pricing and promotion inspired by the customer.
• Utilize appropriate resources to gather, analyze, present and act upon data.
• Study the market trends, consumer(s) and competition by subcategory and turn insights into actionable plans to grow the business.
• Create an inclusive team culture and environment which enables every associate to thrive. Develop direct reports and their directs via coaching, stretch assignments, and consistent feedback.

Qualifications:

• Basic Qualifications: 10 + years relevant experience in merchandising, consulting OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. 5 + years people management experience, motivating teams.
• Prior negotiation experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with both qualitative and quantitative data.
• Experience executing both data gathering and data analysis.