BG GMM
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Job Duties
- Develop long and short term strategic merchandise initiatives in conjunction with the President. Provide sales growth and margin optimization while ensuring distinctive, dominant and exclusive assortments.
- Demonstrate leadership to divisional merchandise managers and buyers to execute strategic initiatives.
- Work with planning organization to ensure merchandise and financial plans reflect goals and objectives of strategic initiatives.
- Develop vendor strategies that support strategic goals and provide leadership to execute these strategies.
- Develop and maintain vendor relationships. SVP/GMM would be the primary contact for domestic and foreign fashion vendors.
- Develop seasonal merchandise plans in conjunction with the planning organization.
- Match corporate strategic merchandising initiatives with seasonal divisional initiatives to develop seasonal growth and margin goals.
- Provide leadership to push high growth vendors and/or classifications beyond expectations of seasonal plans.
- Develop thoughtful and accurate projections in conjunction with the merchant team and planning organization.
- Provide monthly, 3-month and 6-month projections.
- Provide updates on opportunities and risks that arise within projection timeframes.
- Work closely with marketing, creative, advertising and store merchants to enable proper exposure and marketing of all merchandise opportunities.
- Create new marketing initiatives with vendors and marketing teams.
- Develop email schedule with web merchants and marketing to execute seasonal plans.
- Ensure financial goals are exceeded by leveraging knowledge of business with planning and financial teams. Develop a long term merchant team strategy with human resources to optimize growth.
- 5+ years experience in a merchandise management role (GMM/DMM) within a high volume merchandising organization in a fashion apparel or home fashion category.
- Demonstrated management skills, mentoring and developing a merchant.
- Market experience with fashion, current trend merchandise.
- The ability to successfully develop and execute a merchandising strategy.
- Outstanding leadership skills; the ability to build relationships at all levels of the organization.
- Strong written, oral and presentation communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university preferred.