What are the responsibilities and job description for the Live-to-Site Pod Leader - Mens and Kids position at Bloomingdale's?
About
Bloomingdale’s makes fashion personal and fun, aspirational yet approachable. Our mission is to guide and inspire our customers to make style a source of creative energy in their lives. We will always strive to make Bloomingdale’s like no other store in the world. Everyone plays a critical role to bring our mission to life. Regardless of position, we believe all colleagues have a voice and access to share their thoughts with every level of leadership. Our colleagues are passionate, driven, entrepreneurial and collaborative. We welcome and embrace diversity of background, thought and opinion while having a lot of fun along the way.
Job Overview
The Live-to-Site Pod Leader will be responsible for managing style turn in process to the website for an assigned area of business. In this role, the Live-to-Site Pod Leader will manage the timelines and distribution of work to ensure the team supports and delivers company goals. This position will also maintain direct responsibilities for an area of the business, and work with vendors to obtain samples or vendor imagery, prepare documentation and facilitate all product turn in meetings for product page and editorial assets. This position requires frequent communication and cross collaboration with multiple teams and divisions including Buying, Planning, Marketing, Creative, Merchant Operations and Site Merchandising.
Essential Functions
- Oversee, guide, train and develop team (of 4-5 hourly executives) in maximizing productivity, meeting deadlines, and instilling best practices
- Manage sample life cycle from communicating with vendors, tracking and receiving all sample, maintaining accurate inventory, and handling sample returns post shoot
- Submit product information for sample turn-ins, including features & benefits and required product copy
- Produce sample tags and tag samples, identifying each sample with a product ID, vendor information, and sample ID for turn-ins with the Photography Team
- Partner with vendors to get jpeg imagery and alternate editorial assets for product pages
- Regulate warehouse bugs and NOS (Not on Site) products. Send weekly NOS reports and check Bug List report daily to resolve any issues and coordinate with partners as needed
- Collaborate with Merchant Teams to create, manage and maintain monthly trackers for new site products and track monthly item count
- Work with the Fashion Office, Marketing, and Merchant Teams to execute the collection of samples for both print and digital editorial projects and manage sample returns post shoot
Competencies
- We encourage candidates with either a bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in a related field to apply
- Prior experience managing sample/information turn-in process
- Outstanding relationship orientation with the ability to build meaningful relationships with key business stakeholders
- Excellent communication (written, verbal) skills; values keeping others informed, effectively presenting information in a clear, concise manner
- Possesses excellent organizational skills, strong leadership, facilitation, and interpersonal skills
- Must be extremely internet savvy and proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to juggle multiple projects - can identify primary and secondary objectives, prioritize tasks, and communicate timeline to team members
- Maintains confidentiality and security of sensitive company information
