Category Specialist

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant experience, luxury retail fashion preferred
• 4-year degree preferred
• Prior experience with financial modeling and forecasting
• Comfortable consolidating and analyzing data from multiple sources to deliver actionable insights and recommendations to drive business performance
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with proven ability to effectively build and manage relationships
• Self-motivated with critical attention to details and deadlines
• Ability to manage multiple projects with competing demands for resources
• High proficiency with MS Office Product Suite
• High proficiency with reporting tools including Business Objects, Adobe Analytics, and Tableau
• Ability to quickly learn internal systems, processes and additional software/web-based applications
• Experience with advanced data manipulation including SQL preferred
• Associates must be willing to work a flexible schedule based on business need, which may include helping other teams

Competencies

Passion for Business

• Thinks creatively when faced with business challenges or opportunities
• Proactively seeks opportunities and tries new approaches to drive business or improve his/her performance
• Understands and communicates how own work contributes to achievement of the organization’s objectives
• Prioritizes time and effectively uses resources to achieve personal goals
• Demonstrates an ability to quickly adapt to new priorities and directions
• Takes the initiative to find better ways of doing things

Passion for Personal Growth

• Demonstrates self-awareness and understanding of his/her own strengths and development areas
• Takes ownership for personal development, setting personal goals and initiating career/development discussions
• Demonstrates a working knowledge and appreciation of the NMG business and the fashion industry
• Conveys energy and enthusiasm for NMG and personal work
• Establishes and upholds high personal standards for individual work and environment
• Responds to unexpected changes in work environment with creativity and resilience
• Maintains a customer-centric mentality versus a solely channel-centric one

Communicating Effectively

• Delivers clear, concise and effective verbal communication with respect for the receiver
• Accurately reads the emotions and reactions of the person(s) he/she is communicating with, and adjusts appropriately
• Uses appropriate vocabulary, correct grammar, and proper etiquette in written and verbal communications
• Listens attentively and takes responsibility for understanding others
• Communicates with professionalism and tact

Demonstrating Strategic Ability

• Prioritizes own work and determines the appropriate course of action needed to meet established due dates
• Understands and communicates how own work contributes to achievement of the organization’s objectives
• Demonstrates ability to think and act beyond his/her position and group
• Describes how different decisions made today may impact the future in different ways
• Collects relevant information, asks for input, and applies learning from past mistakes when making decisions