Merchandise Manager full-time

NOC: 0113

Salary: $120,000 - $150,000

Education: Completion of University

Experience: 8+ years

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.
• trains, supports and develops merchants
• reports to gmm

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.