While professional experience and qualifications are key for this role, make sure to check you have the preferable soft skills before applying if required.
Senior Manager, Men's Merchandising
We’re looking for a Senior Manager, Men's Merchandising to drive the creation and execution of product strategies across multiple channels to meet the needs of our consumer and deliver against strategic and financial company objectives.
This is an exciting opportunity to help drive one of our biggest categories : Men's product.
This role will be responsible for monitoring trends in the market while identifying short-term and long-term opportunities for growth.
This position requires a keen eye for product with proven experience partnering with Design teams to build out new product concepts and assortments that drive the business forward.
Please note that this is a hybrid position of 4 days / week in our Los Angeles office.
What You'll Do
- Create and lead the omni-channel execution of seasonal product strategies for key categories, leveraging sales data, consumer insights, and competitive analysis.
- Conduct ongoing market and trend research to become the go-to category expert in men’s underwear and loungewear.
- Identify product opportunities through regular hindsight that incorporates fashion and macro trends, consumer research, channel feedback, and sales analysis.
- Analyze sales on a weekly basis to gain a comprehensive understanding of the business.
- Build a long-term growth plan for the men’s category to achieve 15-20% annual growth in total revenue.
- Monitor performance of key items, best sellers, and new collections to inform future development and assortment strategies.
- Partner with planning, marketing, e-commerce, wholesale, CX and consumer insights teams to understand, influence, and drive business objectives / customer needs and identify category / product opportunities.
- Partner closely with marketing / creative teams to build go-to-market strategies and ensure product marketing strategy aligns with buying strategy.
- Identify and address in-season risks and opportunities to drive incremental revenue.
- Maintain updated knowledge of key competitors, product and pricing strategies.
- Lead retail price setting and partner with the production team to achieve margin expectations.
- Drive creation and presentation of new concepts, product design, and line plans.
- Ensure deadlines are met in order to deliver products on a timely basis.
What You Have
- 7+ years of industry experience, men’s underwear experience a strong plus.
- Ability to communicate merchandising direction in an effective manner.
- Proven ability to lead a cross-functional team and work in a collaborative environment.
- Excellent communication skills - interpersonal, written and verbal.
- Excellent presentation skills with strong ability to influence and obtain buy-in from executive leadership.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, being able to juggle multiple seasons at any given time.
- Ability to foster a positive and motivating work environment.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations with big picture context.
- Strong leadership and people skills.
- Ability to engage and inspire cross-functional team members and stakeholders.
- High attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
- Passion for the brand and product; knowledge of fashion trends.
- Bachelor’s degree in related field.
Salary Information
The base salary range for this full-time position is $102,000 - $150,000. Within this range, individual pay is determined by various factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
Please note that the base salary range provided in this posting does not include any bonus, equity, or benefits you may be eligible for.
Equal Opportunity Employer
MeUndies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace and hiring process free from discrimination.
All employment decisions will be made, and all qualified applicants will be considered, without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or other legally protected characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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