Sr. Category Merchant - Women's Apparel

About the role

Responsible for the performance of assigned categories including driving growth, category profitability and customer experience. Responsible for product assortment and the development of competitive merchandise annual plans that achieve financial objectives.

Responsibilities

• Consistently remains on and ahead of category trends through proactive trend and comp shopping, leveraging resources like WGSN and social media and more, and adjusts assortment, and vendor base if necessary.
• Negotiates pricing and terms with new, existing and prospective vendors.
• Buils strong relationships with the vendor community and exercises flexibility in approach to negotiations.
• Manages the development of the sales and margin plans and forecasts in close partnership with cross functional team for assigned categories.
• Communicates merchandising strategies to cross functional teams to ensure proper and timely execution and support of strategy.
• Connects strategies to business operations and maintains an understanding of business operational goals and challenges, working to ensure progress.
• Responsible for value management for assigned categories including price indexing and achievement of margin targets.
• Collaborates with the Vendors, Pricing team and Marketing team to develop pricing, promotional and campaign strategies for assigned categories.
• Continually evaluates merchandising performance and promptly reacts to changes in the business to capitalize on opportunities and mitigate risks.
• Provides leadership and training to the merchandise team.
• Provides the team with frequent and actionable feedback and professional development opportunities.
• Establishes and maintains a reputation of credibility and responsiveness in the marketplace.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business or operations related field, MBA optional
• 7+ years related merchandising / category management experience, specifically within Apparel
• Strong Negotiation skills
• Proven Record of Decision-Making Ability
• Strong Communication and Interpersonal Skills
• Proven Analytical and Organizational Skills

Benefits

Weekly Pay: Get paid every week so that you can manage your money on your terms.
Free BJ’s Memberships: Enjoy a complimentary The Club Card Membership, plus a free Supplemental Membership for someone in your household.
Generous Paid Time Off: Take the time you need with vacation, personal, sick days, holidays, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
Flexible and Affordable Health Benefits: Choose from three medical plans, and access optional dental, vision, Health Savings Account (HSA), and flexible spending account options to fit your lifestyle.
401(k) Retirement Savings Plan: Build your financial future with a company match (available to team members 18 and older).
Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Accumulate funds through after-tax payroll deductions that can be used to purchase shares of BJ’s common stock at a 15% discount.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $128,500.00 - $164,000.00

Schedule

This is a hybrid role. Tuesday through Thursday are in-office days at BJ's Club Support Center in Marlborough, MA and Monday and Friday are remote days.