Merchandising Manager, Fine Jewelry & Timepieces

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain frequent communication with Boutique teams to share sales performance updates, identify opportunities, and support business-driving actions to maximize sales.
• Regularly perform strategic analysis of stock performance and network strategy to propose action plans to improve sales performance.
• Lead the local event (caravan) program, coordinating with FJ&T Regional teams to establish an annual rotation calendar, determine localized assortments, ensure timely product dispatch and receipt between boutiques, and manage comprehensive sales tracking for each event.
• Manage day-to-day product and inventory support for boutiques, including responding to product inquiries, stock requests, and other retail needs in a timely and professional manner.
• Conduct weekly stock rebalancing across boutiques to maximize sales opportunities while maintaining appropriate inventory levels by location.
• Manage client orders from initiation through completion, ensuring accurate and timely execution of confirmed sales, buybacks, special orders, and final delivery.
• Support assortment and inventory planning for caravans, events, and new store openings, ensuring operational readiness and product availability.
• Aid in defining and maintaining store assortments by collection and by store cluster to support business strategy, client demand, and commercial objectives.
• Prepare product launch tools, including launch packs, product mappings, and selling materials, to support successful product launches in boutiques.
• Participate in local FJ&T events as needed, including event preparation, inventory coordination, and onsite support for selling teams.
• Manage the corporate and retail consignment program, ensuring proper tracking, coordination, and execution, while partnering closely with HR to maintain accurate documentation, support retrieval of pieces, and allocate consignment items based on employee movements and business needs.

Requirements

• Full-time; must be available Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, with Friday designated as a work-from-home day.
• Minimum of 5 years of prior merchandising and/or buying experience; Fine Jewelry & Timepieces Experience Preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong knowledge of all other Microsoft Office programs, with strength in PowerPoint.

Skills and Competencies

• Maintains a positive, energetic, and solutions-oriented attitude while building strong working relationships across the broader corporate FJ&T team, including FJ&T Regional teams, Training, VM, and the High End Merchandising Manager, to foster collaboration, alignment, and success in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver accurately under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong attention to detail, excellent follow-through, and highly effective organizational and time management skills.
• Professional and effective communicator, able to build strong relationships with Boutique teams, local partners, and Paris counterparts.
• Trustworthy, proactive, and results-driven self-starter with strong problem-solving skills and the flexibility to adapt quickly to changing business needs.
• Analytical, collaborative, and technically capable, with the ability to work cross-functionally and manage merchandising systems and retail programs effectively.

Additional Information

Requirements

• Full-time; must be available Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, with Friday designated as a work-from-home day.
• Minimum of 5 years of prior merchandising and/or buying experience; Fine Jewelry & Timepieces Experience Preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills and strong knowledge of all other Microsoft Office programs, with strength in PowerPoint.

Salary Range: $110,000 - $125,000 annually, plus bonus eligibility.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts, and short and long-term disability.
• Employee discounts, paid time off, volunteer time off, holidays, mental health and wellbeing support, family friendly benefits, reproductive health care, child and elder care services, commuter benefits, 401k plans with an employer contributions matching plan, employee referral program, and more.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Christian Dior Couture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.