Director, Associate DMM - Men's

JOB DUTIES

Responsibilities include:

• Demonstrate leadership within the division to execute strategic initiatives and deliver on Merchandising business objectives  
• Work with planning organization to ensure merchandise and financial plans reflect goals and objectives of strategic initiatives
• Accountable for leading and driving change while building cross-functional teams that are continually focusing on the customer
• Learns and knows the competitive marketplace, identifies current trends, and understands the customer and business model to inform strategic and tactical decisions
• Guides merchants and collaborates with Planning Department to drive financial plans and forecasts.
• Provide coaching, training, and develop, feedback to direct reports and merchandising team
• Influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create and execute action plans that deliver strategies and financial results including Planning, Creative and Marketing
• Performs additional tasks as required

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years’ experience in a merchandise management role within a high-volume multi-unit merchandising organization in a fashion apparel or home fashion category
• Demonstrated management skills, mentoring, and developing a merchant
• Expert knowledge of industry trends, competition, assortment planning, customer behaviors, inventory management, logistics and marketing techniques.
• Outstanding leadership skills and the ability to build relationships at all levels of the organization
• Strong written, oral and presentation communication skills
• Building effective teams
• Conflict management
• Negotiating
• Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or ability required.