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Senior Director, Market Merchandising, North America & Europe
Gap Inc.
New York, NY, United States
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About Us
In 1969, Don and Doris Fisher opened the first Gap store on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco. They wanted to make it easier to find a great pair of jeans, and they did. Their denim and records store was a hit, and it grew to become one of the world’s most iconic brands.
Today we’re represented in more than 1400 stores in over 40 countries, and online. We have headquarters in New York, London, Shanghai, Tokyo, and, of course, San Francisco.
Our unique aesthetic is optimistic cool, elevated American style. Our clothes are crafted with care, with focused attention to thoughtful design. We believe in staying true to our heritage while creating what’s next.
Don and Doris Fisher always wanted to “do more than sell clothes.” They wanted to support the people who ran their company, to be active in their communities, and to have a positive impact on the world. Their vision helped transform retail, and we’re still following their lead.
We stand for freedom and possibility for all; we champion diverse ideas that transcend generations, geographies and genders.
So if you have ideas, if you’re talented, if you want to work with phenomenal people, and if you think we should leave the world a little better than we found it, we’d love to meet you.
Role Description
The Senior Director, Market Merchandising is responsible for providing vision and thought leadership that influences global product strategy in North America and Europe. This individual is responsible for regional specific merchandising initiatives across all channels. Initiatives include leading market teams to develop briefs on product and category opportunities, identify in season and long range product opportunities, create regional line plans, lead product elements of commercial line plan and be an expert on competitive landscape of markets. This individual will lead a team that is in market (NA, EU, and JPN) and cross channel. They will partner directly with the Global Divisional Product Merchant to ensure the right assortment across each channel and region. This position is HQ/NY based and will partner with local market teams, divisional product merchandising, Inventory Management, and Testing Teams,
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Leads a team of market merchants to develop and integrate regional hindsight’s and line plans which roll up to the Global line plan.
• Analyzes opportunities, designs forecast, drives results and measures the success of initiatives in the product environment.
• Develops briefs on product and category opportunities to share with leadership teams.
• Maintains working global knowledge of competitor practices; provides benchmarking and key insights.
• Identifies in season and long range product opportunities.
• Partners with Global Brand Leadership Team and Market GM Leadership Team to define, prioritize, and implement strategic initiatives in support of divisional strategies and divisional financial goals.
• Lead product/ merchandising elements of commercial line plan.
• Delivers solution oriented, well executed initiatives on time and on budget, which drive product performance.
• Collaborates with Market teams and HQ teams to determine opportunities for process and product improvement.
• Preserves Product priorities in Market, with customer as the primary focus.
• Retail Product Strategy Development-experience in developing and executing, holistic strategies and plans in global retail organizations with customer as the primary focus.
• Innovation-has executed unique and creative ideas that have successfully influenced product Strategies.
• Problem Solving-has demonstrated ability to find solutions to difficult or complex issues; can anticipate consequences.
• Organization Agility-has navigated large, global, complex organizations; can demonstrate driving results.
• Planning, Coordination, Execution-has integrated a large volume of information into effective, productive, streamlined plans.
• Team Leadership-has successfully led teams of direct and matrixed individuals.
• Personal Leadership-demonstrated executive presence, presentation, influencing, and collaboration with a senior leadership team.
• Change Leadership-experience leading through significant change and transformation to move an organization forward.
• Collaboration-proven ability influencing at all levels and making decisions cross-functionally in a matrix environment where speed is crucial.
• Talent Builder-proven track record of assessing, attracting and developing best-in-industry leaders and teams.