Senior Manager Merchandising Job Description
Senior manager merchandising
provides consultation on best practices for the general industry, apparel design, Retail/Direct to Consumer, eCommerce, wholesale and distribution labor markets.
Senior Manager Merchandising Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Work effectively as a member of a cross- functional department team (Retail Merchandising, Planning, Allocation, and Visual Merchandising)
Facilitate all channel calls to keep stores informed of all merchandising activities and build merchandising compliance adoption
Translate BU strategy and into a Global Merchandising strategy reflecting regional requirements
Responsible for all aspects of merchandising the range including segmentation to meet all KPIs incl
Partner with Wholesale team to manage franchise relationships (includes driving market appointments)
Lead a team of Merchandising Compliance Auditors across Canada
Drive innovation and simplicity - identify opportunities and drive process improvements, standardization, and enablers to gain efficiencies for in-store merchandising execution
Oversee Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution for all live devices in channel (Corporate, Dealer & National Retail)
Compliance team to assist with merchandising hotline & ticket resolution as required
Partner with channel to continuously improve in-store merchandising compliance - act as single point of contact & resource for channel
Senior Manager Merchandising Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Manager Merchandising
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PMI
Education for Senior Manager Merchandising
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior manager merchandising job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Business, Marketing, Education, Merchandising, MBA, Finance, Engineering, Business/Administration, Mathematics, Statistics
Skills for Senior Manager Merchandising
Desired skills for senior manager merchandising include:
Retail Management Systems
Retail
Wholesale
Merchandising
Retail industry
Sport
Apparel development calendars
Consumer/fashion trends
Current and potential market place
Design
Desired experience for senior manager merchandising includes:
Develop mid/long-term sustainable X-divisional growth plans for regional product directives
Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop and optimize the product assortments X-divisionally
Review and edit Divisional apparel assortments to optimize the product efficiencies and market opportunities globally while maximizing brand experience across categories, channels & accounts
Use consumer and geographical insight to set targets and sign off range by division and Area & DC channel based on Sales Plan – Brand Direction – Product Flow- Pricing strategy
Drive a global line point of view and mentality, ensuring buy in from all regions
Build a lean and effective organisation structure
Senior Manager Merchandising Examples
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Senior Manager Merchandising Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior manager merchandising. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior manager merchandising
- Participates in store openings to understand and influence any strategies in the area of visual merchandising, store design and fixture development
- Exhibits exemplary functional visual merchandising skills that support a range of stores across volume, visibility, complexity and store design
- Responsible for all aspects of running apparel range merchandising including segmentation to meet all KPIs incl
- Source product from Product Merchandising teams for photo shoots
- Coordinate & consolidate the full Running Category Merchandising tasks
- Ensure all expenditure is in line with the Market Visual Merchandising budget and notify the Sr
- Identifies and develops training opportunities to address visual merchandising skills building within our upper field leaders and stores
- Understands how visual merchandising supports an exceptional customer experience and drives business overall
- Support continuous improvement techniques and tools challenge existing standards and procedures in order to be industry leading
- Ensure all operations comply with the adidas Group Social and Environment Affairs (SEA) standards relevant local laws respecting human rights and health/safety for all employees and their work environment
Qualifications for senior manager merchandising
- Manage the selection of products for Factory Outlets in line with OTB incl
- Build key Merchandise Management Reports and set schedule for issuing
- Attend Weekly Call with stores
- Analyse inventory levels and aging of stock and propose action steps re potential trading and pricing activities bin campaigns
- Street smarts
- Build and maintain strong relationships with Global product teams
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Senior Manager Merchandising Job Description
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Our growing company is hiring for a senior manager merchandising. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior manager merchandising
- Analyze sales performance on seasonal basis by brand and product category in order to formulate assortment mix
- Develop product strategies that tie to financial plans and corporate initiatives in partnership with the Planning team
- Analyze weekly business recaps and communicate findings at product meetings
- Participate in monthly MMR meetings with global partners to communicate monthly business trends
- Determine each store’s space allocation by subdivision and sku capacity within each subdivision
- Determine each store’s delivery flow
- Create and communicate in-season exit strategies
- Work with Planning to develop category and plan receipts by category
- Conduct regional conference calls/ discussion to evaluate strategies and make adjustments
- Conduct and present competitive shop and pricing analysis on a seasonal basis
Qualifications for senior manager merchandising
- Partner with marketing when planning events in order to maximize sales in certain location
- Generate compliance reporting & audits – initiate, monitor, track & provide ongoing results to channels & stakeholders on a weekly basis (Corporate & Dealer)
- Prepare & deliver impactful presentations
- Oversee team travel budget and approvals
- Proven success in actively leading, developing and stretching others to their full potential - ability to drive results while fostering a positive and collaborative work environment
- Self motivated with a drive for achieving superior results
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Senior Manager Merchandising Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior manager merchandising. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior manager merchandising
- Lead and influence the seasonal category objectives with focus on female range offer
- Lead and support cluster event (marathon/contracted races) teams providing an impactful brand statement offer in line with global strategy
- Strategic and commercial use of mi platforms when and where necessary
- Create and establish guidelines for distribution and activation of Magalog working closely with key markets, Reebok FitHubs and e-commerce to ensure distribution/activation plans awareness with the constituencies of key stories included with each issue
- Perform an ongoing assessment of the overall effectiveness of the magalog by measuring sales, customer acquisition/retention, analyzing competitor direct mail and digital offerings in order to collect and recommend best practices
- Category and range efficiency
- Build and manage exciting and profitable product ranges for ecom
- Drive the conversation with CTC, demand planning, product content team, eCom marketing activation and other relevant stakeholders to ensure flawless execution
- Support a wide range of complex assignments with global responsibility
- Identify and communicate Market needs and best practices to the Sr
Qualifications for senior manager merchandising
- Ability to effectively analyse data and summarize for executive presentations
- Organized team-player with ability to work well under pressure, meet tight deadlines and deal effectively under stress
- Excellent attention to detail & ability to problem solve
- Interface with Director of Scheduling to maintain a Balanced Workload, ensuring that short interval employee and business driven adjustments are incorporated into daily/hourly base schedules
- Work with Inbound and Outbound Merchandise Managers to perform stock-room and selling floor readiness assessments and perform adjustments to facilitate productivity and compliance
- Participate in weekly workload planning meetings conducted by the Director of Merchandise and Logistics
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Senior Manager Merchandising Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a senior manager merchandising. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for senior manager merchandising
- Adapts Global visual direction to meet the needs of North America
- Participates and leads store walkthroughs to identify North America needs to adapt global direction
- Troubleshoot concept flows, windows, business strategies and creative needs for North America stores
- Teaches, trains, and develops others through written and verbal communication
- Develops direct reports in both functional and leadership skills
- Ensure that promotional activities for the department are analysed and executed from reliable data
- Cross functional team routines and management
- Develop, evolve and execute business processes to support company goals and intiatives
- Plan, facilitate and execute project based assignments
- Identify opportunities for improvement and work to implement changes
Qualifications for senior manager merchandising
- Knowledge of and passion for running (preferred but not essential)
- Strong understanding of female running consumer and market trends
- Exposure to other marketing disciplines is essential – merchandising, brand communication, and sales experience preferred
- Collaborate with franchise leads, creative and copy teams to curate content that adds value to the player experience
- Develop and optimize cross functional processes for planning and execution of global site refreshes and promotions
- Drive innovative feature enhancements to improve site experience and KPIs
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Senior Manager Merchandising Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking to fill the role of senior manager merchandising. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior manager merchandising
- Collaborate with Design, Product Development/Production, Buying and Wholesale to execute the assortment plan (product selection, price, margins, what to buy and market presentation strategy)
- Oversee design, IT, execution and support
- Provide creative ideas, both proactively and reactively to increase the effectiveness of in-store merchandising
- Analyze global sales, feedback and historical data to inform all merchandising decisions
- Partner with KSNY merchandising team to ensure alignment of product direction
- Train, develop, coach, and management of partnered Visual Merchandising talent
- Prepare and present project status reports to company leadership
- Create efficient and accurate anlaysis and presentations to add value, deliver clear messaging and inspire action
- Facilitate meetings to maximize participant contributions and creative solutions
- Manage and set accurate forecasting process within deadlines and targets
Qualifications for senior manager merchandising
- Ability to use Reporting Metrics/Analytics to identify business trends and opportunities for optimization
- Experience over multiple countries including Turkey is a must
- Strong management skills, inspirational and directional
- Excellent numerical and analytical insights
- Excellent communication skills- include influencing and negotiation skills
- MA Degree or equivalent in Business, Marketing or other related field