Merchandise Manager full-time

Description
NOC: 0113
Salary: $120,000 - $150,000
Education: Bachelor's Degree
Experience: 8+ years
Openings: 2

a day in the life of a Merchandise Manager

• owns pre season planning, initial line plan, buy review, capacity plan
• builds one product architecture and one line plan
• oversees execution of meltdown, line pass, budget reviews, capacity plans, buy, otb.
• accountable for merchandising strategies, accountable for assigned part of the product architecture and line plan
• responsible for brand management, execution of guest experience against strategic merchandising vision
• works closely together with design and merchandise team to ensure concept to floor execution with end in mind
• define flow, pricing, initial attributing (store grouping, hot/cold, volume, region)
• responsible for giving product feedback during design reviews (wwdt, proto) & colorweek
• ensures targets are met (style count, imu, newness, wow, on time delivery)
• presents product overview to team
• attends weekly merchandise pod meetings for in season weekly business management (sales refinement, flow, md, reprice, consolidations, pullback, chase, cancelations)
• manages gates and deadlines as it relates to the gtm calendar
• leads in weekly merchandise and product pod meetings, m&r, quarterly product calls , buy review
• attends design rallies seasonally, works in stores weekly.

The finer print

• 8+ years of experience in merchant or buyer role
• Strong leadership skills
• Mastery of retail mathematics and Open to Buy
• Proficient with all programs in Microsoft Office 2007
• Willingness to learn various systems (including, but not limited to, MMS, Retail Ideas, Maple Lake, JDA) and is not dependent upon others for systems-related tasks such as re-pricing styles, re-routing or issuing POs, etc.