What are the responsibilities and job description for the Divisional Merchandise Manager position at Marshall Retail Group?
Dynamic and growing retail company is now seeking a Divisional Merchandise Manager!
As the Divisional Merchandise Manager, you will be responsible for leading the merchandise function and managing the assigned categories buying.
Marshall Retail Group/InMotion is North America’s premier award-winning travel retailer in the airport marketplace. For over 65 years, MRG/IMEG has provided clients with a portfolio of attractive, successful brands! We currently operate more than 300 stores across the United States and Canada, and we are always looking for the best in talent.
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- FREE Life Insurance
- Short & Long Term Disability Insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k with company match
- Huge Employee Discount at all our stores, so check us out
- Amazing training & career path
- Competitive pay!
- And more!
What you’ll be doing:
- Delivering KPIs – sales, margin and supplier income v plan
- Vendor terms negotiations to structure annual agreements with key vendors to deliver required cost prices, promotional support, markdown funding and supplier income, working with the Marketing team to sell annual advertising and promotional programs
- May coordinate with the Operations, Marketing and Biz Dev Team to assist in develop initiatives to drive sales and gross margins – initiatives would include managing new product launches, new stores, and promotional plans
- Will partner with the Planning Team on Open to Buy, meeting and exceeding plan goals, margins, delivering overall department goals, etc.
- Will set up regular store visits, competitor store visits with team and self to evaluate comps and look for expanding opportunities
- Will coordinate attendance with self and team for multiple trade shows
- Works with team to create overall vision for product strategies and assortments
- Reviewing and signing off the assortment plan
- Will work with team to report and review analysis of sales and margin v Plan, identifying trading gaps and opportunities and developing tactical responses to course correct performance back to Plan providing this feedback and recommendation to the VP Logo
- Using market data to benchmark performance versus market, understanding emerging categorical trends and the opportunities and risks such trends bring to the our model
- Managing all communications between all department heads across all departments, eliminating silos and increasing understanding
- Identifying new and emerging categories to keep us ahead of our competitors
- Supervisory duties; hiring, firing, performance management and coaching of departmental staff.
- To conduct him/herself in the spirit of the MRG/IMEG mission, vision, core values and organizational health
- Other duties may be assigned
