Anthropologie Weddings · 2 days ago
Anthropologie Merchandise Manager - Daily Practice
US-PA-Philadelphia
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
12+ years expAnthropologie Weddings is seeking a Merchandise Manager for their Daily Practice business. The role is responsible for driving sales growth and profitability while collaborating with buyers, design, and marketing teams to ensure a unique and customer-oriented product assortment.
E-CommerceFashionRetailWedding
Responsibilities
The MM is responsible for strategizing the growth of both sales and profit for Daily Practice
The MM provides category specific direction to the buyers and review the detail assortment plans with buyers
MMs are responsible for insuring the correct driver distortions are made to ensure correct fashion positioning for the coming season
The MM is responsible for bringing a customer and market perspective to the design process and to ensure that the final line recommendations are commercially viable
The MM should establish and maintain a peer relationship with the design and production leadership and engage in a free and informal exchange of information regarding trends being observed in the market (customer, competition) and within the business
The MM coordinates and provides information to the production function to facilitate production planning needs
Develops and monitors sourcing and production strategies for private label and market vendors
The MM identifies marketing and promotional opportunities for their categories of merchandise and contributes to the development of the marketing, packaging and promotional plans – partnering with, and facilitating for the Art Department and Creative team
The MM collaborates with marketing team to create strong product narratives that resonate with our customer and drives traffic in store and on line
The MM is responsible for determining the overall mix of market and private label product for each buying area to ensure that the final mix is ultimately customer oriented
The MM is expected to play an active role in determining the in store placement of their product
It is their job to manage the prioritization across all product categories falling within their responsibility – aligning with the creative team and to control the communication to the field
This is achieved through seasonal overviews with the marketing and visual departments and through regular store visits and weekly operations meetings
The MM plays the pivotal role in managing their categories of business in season
The MM is responsible for synthesizing information they receive through regular business analysis, or specific analysis requested in response to trends or opportunities and to develop recommendations
The MM is to look for opportunities to increase sales, improve margins, optimize inventories and decrease markdowns
The MM must coach and mentor buyers to maximize the market resources, margins, and timeliness of product
The MM should facilitate the process of developing new market vendors, watching the vendor life cycle and helping the buyers understand how to remove the vendors for the product mix before the lifecycle is complete
The MM should coach buyers on how to use the market to react to changes in business and how to freshen up an assortment to keep up with trend changes
The MM must provide buyers with regular job performance feedback and annual performance evaluations with the goal of developing someone to the point they are promotable
Qualification
Required
12+ years of buying and merchandising experience
The ability to recognize a new trend, item, look, and product early in its lifecycle
The ability to understand the magnitude of an opportunity and to translate that insight into an assortment and buy
Creative thinking is an asset in recognizing and managing in changing paradigms
An understanding for the Anthropologie customer and the shopping experience and that it is the final category edit for the merchandising assortment
The ability to identify, gather and assimilate information specific to our customer
The ability to make the transition from strategic (conceptual and planning) to execution
Financial acumen and the ability to manipulate numbers are critical in achieving the tactical objectives
The ability to develop and communicate a vision of the business that translates into bottom line performance
The ability to delegate and direct the daily activities of the buyers and provide direction to the team
Personnel skills to lead, develop and coach people and the recognition that building a team is critical to the Company's success
The ability to develop partnerships with other functional heads
The ability to collect, assimilate, analyze, package and present information to the Managing Director in a way that permits them to make an informed decision and take measurable action
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Preferred
Entrepreneurial in spirit: Thinks and acts like an owner
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
PTO
Generous employee discounts
Retirement savings
And much more!
Company
Anthropologie Weddings
A wedding destination, exclusively from Anthropologie Anthropologie Weddings is a destination for the bride in search of uniquely beautiful ways to celebrate a uniquely beautiful love story.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase