Work at Purchasing Power

Position: Divisional Merchandise Manager

Location: Atlanta/Hybrid work model

Who Are We: Purchasing Power (corp.purchasingpower.com)

We are an Atlanta-based voluntary benefit company offering an industry-leading employee purchase program for brand-name consumer products, online education services and travel offerings through convenient payroll deduction, helping employees achieve financial flexibility.

The Opportunity: The Divisional Merchandise Manager will drive the overall merchandising strategy for multiple product departments and categories. The ideal candidate must demonstrate management level foresight and be able to drive decisions within the framework of successful product assortment development and execution of strategic plans and hit financial targets to drive the business for their respective categories. This candidate must have strong leadership experience, proven strength in cross-enterprise collaboration, and an entrepreneurial mindset.

What You Will Do:

• Execute a profitable merchandise strategy, in partnership with the Vice President of Merchandising for the designated product departments
• Direct and manage Sr Buyers, Buyers and Merchandising support staff
• Train and mentor/coach around product development, assortment and margin management, strategic financial planning, new category development and vendor management and negotiations
• Manage merchandise, pricing and marketing strategies to maximize sales and profitability
• Stay current on emerging trends by performing market analysis, shopping the competition, attending trade shows domestically, and finding inspiration from a variety of style and design sources
• Orchestrate pricing strategy and execution in collaboration with the cross-functional Pricing team
• Negotiate with suppliers to secure the lowest total delivered cost including volume discounts, rebates, marketing funds and/or other applicable allowances
• Create detailed seasonal plans to ensure planned sales and profitability through allocation and inventory availability, promotional plans/marketing strategy and other key components
• Interface with e-commerce, marketing, and supply chain teams to ensure positive sales and profitable outcome
• Lead the category review and planning process utilizing cross functional resources and multiple data resources to achieve optimum sales performance
• Develop and present to senior management the business strategies, marketing plans, merchandise assortments to drive profitable sales and company growth expectations and strategic goals

The Experience You Will Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in a general area of study or 7 years of relevant experience in Merchandising may be considered in lieu of a degree
• 4 years of experience managing a buying team, including hiring, development, and motivating a team
• 7 years of retail experience in Fashion categories (Apparel, Shoes, Accessories, Jewelry or Handbags) covering a range of experience from vendor management, negotiation, forecasting and planning, buying, merchandising responsibilities
• Advanced proficiency in using e-commerce systems and product catalog management tools
• Experience using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Access)
• Understanding of margin planning, pricing and promotional elasticity, product planning and forecasting, inventory productivity measures
• Ability to develop and maintain strong vendor partnerships and demonstrated business success working with top tier Fashion brands and distribution partners

Preferred Qualifications:

• Buying experience with E-commerce and drop ship suppliers

Your Well Being:

• Hybrid work model (Onsite/Offsite)
• Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, vision, company paid Basic Life/AD&D
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Flexible PTO
• Career Development
• Employee Purchase Program

What We Stand For:

• We act with intensity, urgency and a passion for supporting our customers and growing our business. We strive for excellence.
• We hold ourselves accountable and expect it of each other. We attack problems with a positive “can do” attitude. We do what we say we’ll do.
• We deliver as one team, working together with integrity, respect, trust, transparency, and fun. We are better because we work here.
• We believe our unique diversity and authenticity makes us a better company, allows us to be our best selves and is a competitive advantage.
• We exhibit innate curiosity and creativity to innovate and reimagine how things can be done. We ask, is there a better way?

Purchasing Power is an equal opportunity employer. At Purchasing Power, we make all employment decisions, which include hiring, promoting, transferring, demoting, evaluating, compensating and separating, without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, religion, age, national origin, pregnancy, citizenship, disability, service in the uniform services, or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.