Senior Director Merchandising Insight
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Responsibilities & Qualifications
Estimated Time Breakdown:
40% People Management
25% Merchandising Insights
35% Brand Partner Insights
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Merchandising Insights
- Create a strategy that institutionalizes analytics-based insights as a key driver in all merchandising decisioning.
- Serve as a strategic business partner, helping to translate data analytics provided by internal business partners into actionable business insights.
- Lead a team responsible for developing the tools / resources that will provide NM merchandising teams with the market and customer-based insights needed to inform their buys (e.g., category profitability, brand performance).
- Oversee the analysis of market trends, industry benchmarks, brand economics, customer loyalty and product assortment to identify sales, cost and profit opportunities across all merchandise categories.
- Support the President, Chief Merchandising Officer by providing regular, directional merchandising insights.
- Develop and implement standard operating procedures to ensure regularity and consistency in data analysis and reporting intervals for cross-functional partners and senior leadership.
- Lead special projects, ad hoc analysis, and initiatives related to assortment performance / optimization and cost reduction/management.
- Brand Partner Insights
- Support merchandising leadership team in brand partner insights, leading rigorous profitability, brand loyalty, promotional and transferability analyses that will help tailor individualized brand partner conversations for GMMs.
- Oversee the development and delivery of key brand partner negotiation support materials.
Technical Qualifications:
- 10+ years of relevant experience either management consulting or retail management; experience in luxury retail is preferred but not required
- Extensive experience leading the development and maintenance of analytics materials to drive executive strategy
- Intimate knowledge of retail merchandising functions and category management
- Mastery of translating data into actionable insights
- Self-driven, innovative strategic thinker who is resourceful and can look beyond existing business and technology limitations
- Ability to persuade, influence, and execute innovative methods and processes
- Demonstrated leadership skills with an ability to motivate, influence, collaborate and work closely both in-function and across the organization
- Highly developed communications skills (written / verbal) and interpersonal savvy
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of duties, responsibilities, or activities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.