What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Merchandiser position at True Religion?
THE PURPOSE: Execute, plan, and manage the product assortment and business strategy for the Women’s department in alignment with the company’s goals.
THE ROLE (what you are accountable for)
- Drive seasonal go-to-market process from line plan creation to sales.
- Build the right brand/product assortment that will drive and exceed sales and gross margin goals.
- Implement new product strategies and key items to drive women’s sales.
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure all product strategies are carried out, executed against, and key financial targets are being achieved.
- Understand the market drivers and brand positioning to successfully react to the business.
- Be on top of trends and opportunities to chase into the various needs of the business.
- Create assortment plans outlining product, cost, and retail needs to support the global women’s business and achieve a cross-functional quarterly sales budget.
- Articulate results and strategy at weekly business meetings, seasonal milestones, and investment meetings.
- Work closely with planning to manage inventory in accordance with OTB.
- Led and developed a team of merchants with the end goal of owning the product categories and managing from start to finish.
- Ensure all product meets or exceed our cost targets in order to exceed our gross margin goals.
- Manage monthly markdowns to ensure inventory levels are hitting our targets and product sell-throughs are achieved.
- Create, manage, and execute key item programs to drive top-line sales across categories.
- Chase products every month to ensure trends are covered and key product classes are represented.
- Oversee receipt reconciliation and all deliveries.
- Work closely with the marketing and e-commerce teams to ensure all product collections are launched properly and have adequate support around them in order to achieve sales goals.
YOU ARE:
- A motivated and confident individual who readily takes on responsibility.
- Able to identify challenges and opportunities, provide solutions, and see things through to the end.
- A consummate collaborator who knows how to influence and achieve win-win results.
- A clear and direct communicator, while being respectful and positive.
- A business hawk who can focus on both the rand and the finances at the same time.
REQUIRED MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:
- 6 years of experience in a merchandising role
- Retail math knowledge
- Advanced Excel knowledge
- Strong organizational / project management/time management skills along with excellent oral and written communication ability
- 2 years managing a small team
Salary : $110,000 - $120,000
