Merchant, PINK Beauty

About the role

The Merchant at Victoria’s Secret & Co. is responsible for developing and driving strategies and seasonal assortment plans for a category of business. They collaborate with various cross-functional teams to ensure the accurate execution of the brand vision and category goals. The role requires strong leadership skills, customer focus, and the ability to translate product and financial insights into actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional partnerships and communicate clearly while demonstrating company values
• Drive solutions-based thinking, conflict resolution, and productive dialogue in cross-functional and merchandising meetings
• Develop leadership presence and cast a positive leadership shadow
• Build relationships by embodying the corporate culture and values of diversity, equity, inclusivity, open-mindedness, collaboration, and positive intent
• React with urgency while comprehending overall strategy
• Turn customer insight into actionable recommendations for assortment strategy
• Translate and apply customer and competitive patterning insights into actions that drive the business and assortment forward
• Partner across merchandising categories to connect dots on larger, total brand trends and patterns
• Understand the customer’s lifestyle by staying on top of trends, social media, and pop culture
• Drive customer insight strategy via internal teams and external focus groups
• Execute the seasonal financial plan into a product assortment while preserving brand position and image
• Turn product insight into actionable recommendations for assortment strategy and influence the evolution of potential new categories
• Accountable for key meeting prep with sample availability, style & color ranking, deck preparation, and ad hoc requests and analysis
• Responsible for ongoing trend analysis and reporting, inclusive of competitive landscape & competitive patterning
• Drive development of a robust testing agenda to identify and unlock future growth opportunities
• Accountable for sales and margin targets for their category of business
• Develop roadmap and lineplan architecture by season and align with Planning partners in lineplan reviews to present to Senior Leadership
• Ensure price-value relationship is in line with customer expectation
• Manage product trends and historical data at the category level to manage in-season opportunities
• Actively participate and influence in costing meetings by floorset
• Select, train, coach, and develop a diverse team to ensure effective performance and growth through consistent on-the-job training
• Manage oneself and team (handle high-pressure situations, proactive problem solving, positive leadership shadow, maintain healthy relationships across the organization)
• Actively give, seek, and take action on feedback to and from all levels to enable growth and development in role

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Merchandising, Business Administration, or relevant area
• Minimum 3-6 years of experience in merchandising or relevant experience
• Strong understanding of vertically integrated retail operations
• Broad-based business acumen with the potential to grow to the Merchant level
• High intelligence with a true entrepreneurial risk mentality, strong analytical and strategic thinking skills
• Acute sense of brand and customer intimacy
• Acute fashion sense with proven talent to envision and interpret fashion trends
• Proficient in conflict management and problem-solving
• Exceptional ability to bridge and enhance cooperative working relationships
• Strong organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability in communication, presentation, negotiating, and influencing skills
• Ability to lead and inspire with unquestionable integrity and trust
• Systems and computer proficiency (MS Office, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel)

Qualifications

• Minimum one direct report

Skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities
• Proven ability to influence and motivate others
• Experience with MS Office and other relevant software

Benefits

Victoria’s Secret & Co. offers a range of benefits including:

• Paid parental leave to bond with your new addition
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Merit increases and performance bonuses
• On-the-spot recognition and rewards for a job well done
• Employee stock purchase program
• Merchandise discounts
• Medical, dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage
• Tuition reimbursement
• Commuter benefits

Pay

Pay Range: $105,300.00 – $149,415.00

Schedule

Hybrid