Manager, Merchandise Job Description
Manager, merchandise
provides leadership and direction to the team, developing employees, supporting placement and graduate recruitment programme, inspiring the team to excel in what they do, spotting talent and putting in place succession plans.
Manager, Merchandise Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Support strategies to handle unexpected peak volumes caused by IT issues, forecasting
Schedule/manage merchandising and design meetings
Collecting historical information, and in-season business reports from the sales team and other parties to influence line development strategies
Providing sales teams with product knowledge and to serve as an informational resource
Work with design, marketing and global sales team to ensure brand integrity and key benefits of brands is preserved
Accountable for financial objective achievement to grow market share, achieve profitability targets and minimize risks
Manages cross functional team to deliver integrated launch programs for products, including product direction, marketing plans and store operations and supply chain requirements
Manages project teams, suppliers, and timelines to deliver products and programs
Develops and manages product line business plans and assortment strategies
Builds and maintains strong relationships with key markets within the region
Manager, Merchandise Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Manager, Merchandise
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: DOT, EDI, CFA, CPA, MBA
Education for Manager, Merchandise
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the manager, merchandise job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Business, Management, Marketing, Education, Merchandising, Finance, Leadership, Technical, Fashion Merchandising, Business/Administration
Skills for Manager, Merchandise
Desired skills for manager, merchandise include:
Store merchandising and retail management practices and procedures
Top talent in the market place and proactively recruits to fill open positions
Apparel & headwear
Fashion and pop culture
MLB
Excel
Excel with aptitude to learn new systems quickly
Link between analysis and business impact
Forecasting
IP
Desired experience for manager, merchandise includes:
Previous experience in merchandising or buying is a plus
Must have a creative eye for styling and flair for upcoming trends
BA or BS degree with 7+ years in fashion retail merchandising / planning
Proven track record of managing and developing a merchandise team, across multiple categories
E-Commerce, multi-brand, off-price experience highly preferred
Understands best practices around structuring a merchandising organization and has experience implementing practices
Manager, Merchandise Examples
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Manager, Merchandise Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a manager, merchandise. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for manager, merchandise
- Drive flawless execution of corporate initiatives and store standards to ensure resources, including payroll, are used effectively
- Ensure back rooms, fitting rooms and self-serve sales floors are maintained
- Supervise and assign tasks to the team of Merchandise Presentation Associates to drive productivity and accuracy with all tasks
- Dive into merchandise reporting to identify web opportunities and surface to buying team
- Lead the collaboration between JAB merchandise team and all digital functions
- Provide product expertise to Digital Marketing and Site Experience teams
- Develop and manage site messaging calendar with the Content Marketing Manager to ensure merchandising of key site offers Marketing and Business initiatives
- Leads the Cross Functional Team to be
- Ability to develop & drive dept strategies for each business
- Leads their teams to drive results at the department level
Qualifications for manager, merchandise
- Ability to be detail oriented and budget conscious
- Bachelors Degree required and a minimum of 7+ years of planning experience, which includes knowledge of distribution and buying
- Demonstrated ability to lead and develop direct reports
- Understanding of structure, uses, and elements of traditional Open to Buy
- Proficiency in Retail Math (sales, gross margin, GMROI, DOH) and proven ability to translate those metrics into actionable information that drives financial results
- Extremely flexible and adaptive to changing priorities with the ability to thrive within a certain amount of ambiguity
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Manager, Merchandise Job Description
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of manager, merchandise. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for manager, merchandise
- Monitors and adjusts sales plan to align with business trend
- Identifies items to maximize promotional and marketing strategies to meet/exceed the financial plan
- Responsible for achieving brand and financial objectives for assigned merchandise departments
- Supervise Buyers to achieve organizational objectives
- Analyze sales and market trends to establish overall product assortment strategy
- Oversee retail price strategy and markdowns
- Negotiate vendor programs and manage the relationship to ensure there is compliance
- Maintain vendor matrix and buyer assortment plans
- Collaborate to plan the marketing and advertising strategy for assigned merchandise areas
- Oversee the floor plans for the merchandising direction of assigned department(s) to execute the overarching strategy
Qualifications for manager, merchandise
- Ability to manager staff to achieve results
- Must display a high degree of professionalism, tact, and diplomacy
- Must possess strong organizational and time management skills, with strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize multiple projects and priorities
- Strong Mentor with a good understanding of how to develop a team
- Highly organized with an ability to predict and maximize trends
- Ability to travel based on the needs of the business department is required ( sometimes on short noticed )
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of manager, merchandise. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for manager, merchandise
- Drive product development by providing design direction to in-house and external Design partners
- Creates and manages financial operating category plan
- Initiates and leads appropriate cross-functional teams to deliver category business objectives
- Works closely with Supply Chain team to proactively manage Quality Assurance
- Champions the Reserve brand at all times
- Work with Merchandise Accounting team to gain an in-depth, comprehensive understanding of financial processes and systems
- Lead financial team involvement in systems implementations and enhancements
- Serve as financial team project manager for company strategic initiatives
- Participate in the company's monthly close and reporting calendar and schedule all related activities to ensure deadlines are met
- Support team during the monthly financial close process by reviewing journal entries, balancing procedures and G/L reconciliations
Qualifications for manager, merchandise
- Flexible, organized, collaborative
- Creativity – must have strong visual merchandising and styling skills
- Proven experience understanding product trends
- Minimum of 7 years experience as a Buyer or DMM
- Strong knowledge of all Microsoft Office programs
- Strong interpersonal skills, self-motivated, well organized, detail-oriented, and the ability to multi-task
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Manager, Merchandise Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of manager, merchandise. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for manager, merchandise
- When overseeing Games Operations, conduct inventory management from selection of product, vendor negotiations, monitor of open to buy, cost of goods sold and logistical flow of good
- Responsible for Departmental KPI’s to drive financial performance and deliver Revenue and EBITDA growth
- Utilize systems including MMS, Retail Ideas, Parkware, and other software programs to make metric-based decisions
- Develop new metrics as business needs warrant
- Project management given new operations and openings, events, and park-wide events
- Lead the buying function for the Direct to Consumer business channels and articulate the Lead the buying function for the Direct to Consumer business channels and articulate the needs to key partners at the beginning of the Go to Market process
- Oversee the buying team to determine the Retail and Online buys for all categories
- Collaborate with internal teams including Retail, Marketing and In store presentation to manage in-season business performance and execute brand enhancing stories in the Retail stores
- Own and oversee the in-season product management for the Direct to Consumer channels
- Lead monthly and seasonal assortment reviews and hindsight meetings
Qualifications for manager, merchandise
- Certificate from college or accredited facility
- Minimum of 10 years direct work experience in project management capacity or five years of experience in a Merchandising Operations role in Retail
- Extensive experience in multiple and/or large scale project management, preferably within the context of a retail environment or commensurate business experience
- Working knowledge of Merchandising and Supply Chain Process Best Practices
- Retail business background with strong process and systems acumen
- BS or BA University degree
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of manager, merchandise. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for manager, merchandise
- Office / computer work, 15%
- Conference calls, emails, phone calls and meetings with key partners (District Leaders, Store Managers, Sr
- Provide cost saving options to achieve target prices
- Lead the Costing Team to improve the costing communication between regions
- Seasonal price negotiation
- Facilitate process and revisit existing SOP between Regions, Factories and Suppliers
- Oversee the preparation and analysis of the cost reports, BOM analysis, margin report and costing audit
- Collaborate with internal & external partners to achieve high quality technical packs and the transparency of the cost sheets, information is accurate for merchandising process use
- Support in Product Engineering
- Develop and maintain a Costing Library to collect up-to-date styles, materials, trims, vendors, suppliers for the team's inspiration & tracking
Qualifications for manager, merchandise
- Ability to plan, prepare, and execute strategic business plans
- Must have at least three (3) years of retail experience
- 5-7 years of planning or financial analysis experience in specialty retail -- women's apparel strongly preferred
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience leading teams within a theme park, hospitality, or retail environment with demonstrated success
- Theme Park retail experience preferred
- Must have experience leading revenue operations