Leader, Merchandising

Responsibilities

• Lives Our Values: People, Quality, Service and Innovation
• Drives product assortment strategies to deliver sales and margin forecasts.
• Drives calendar to meet critical dates.
• Interprets and applies consumer and competitive insights to all aspects of the business.
• Leads weekly business cross-functional meetings, driven to action points to achieve sales plans and margin.
• Participates actively in financial review meetings through challenging and identifying corrective action necessary to maximize sales & margin.
• Presents POV in meetings with senior management.
• Offers a strong POV in weekly product development meetings.
• Communicates with vendors for product, pricing execution and timely receipts.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline (8+ years of combined college education and retail experience may be substituted for a degree).
• Minimum 5 years direct merchandising experience working at a retailer or marketer.
• Strong strategy and leadership skills.
• Track record of success in leading strategic business planning.
• Hightly developed financial business acumen.
• Strong planning and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills � includes influencing and negotiation skills.
• Ability to drive innovation and collaboration.
• Develops category product strategies.
• Proficiency with MS Office applications (Word & Excel).