Job Description

Responsibilities

• Develop relationships, negotiate and interact with vendors
• Assortment rationalization – Ensure that categories are represented properly with industry leading brands and products in the assortment
• Lead the merchandising strategy categories with a primary focus on building the branded channels
• Responsible for monthly forecasting and open to buy management
• Responsible for full product assortment lifecycle optimization
• Monitor web experience to enable shoppers to discover, learn, and purchase products in categories
• Support content development to be the distinctive and authoritative destination for category knowledge serving both customers and associates
• Creatively plan profitable promotional planning to set the categories on a course for sustainable growth
• Collaborate closely with internal sales teams effectively to enable existing account growth and accelerate new business
• Lead and coordinate efforts to develop new or revised processes/procedures as needed
• Identify strategic growth opportunities and develop formal plans for implementation
• Put together and present high-quality documents and presentations to senior leadership both inside and outside the company
• Maintain a strong knowledge of sales metrics and monitor marketing, brand and sales effectiveness
• Partner with internal teams to ensure effective execution of business plan in a manner that continually enhances customer experience
• Conduct regular business analysis to ensure the health of the business and to provide visibility to senior leadership

• Relevant merchandising experience
• Knowledge of core merchandising systems and processes
• Strong online experience and understanding of web performance KPIs (i.e. Google Analytics, Omniture etc.)
• Experience in the Open to Buy process
• Ability to forecast and budget the business
• Leadership experience
• Product sourcing experience is a plus
• Strong cross-functional experience with internal departments (i.e. Marketing, Operations etc.)
• Negotiation and buying skills with proven ability to work with a wide variety of vendors both large and small
• Experience with integrated business-to-business sales, solutions and technology
• Strong collaboration skills to build long-term strategic partnerships with key vendors
• Microsoft Office Suite proficiency