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Company description
Sundance… a placeAn ideaCelebrating and enriching the human experience.
Job description
The merchandise manager will focus on driving the full price business across channels with duties including competitive intelligence, assortment planning, product pricing, forecasting, and coordination with marketing and creativeThis position will see strong collaboration between product development, inventory control, marketing, ecommerce, retail, and creative in order to drive strategic growth for the brand.
Responsibilities
Leads jewelry team to achieve the sales and gross margin budgets through optimizing assortment, pricing and strategy.
Develop global assortment plans – watch for and identify trends in categories as well monitor key metrics by channel.
Implement an effective and strategic approach to establishing retail pricing for the brand
Leads, mentors, and develops team of high performers.
Utilize margin filters of perceived value, key price point targets and assortment hierarchies to determine the best possible price/margin relationships.
Research ways to improve the response rates across all customer segments.
Drive return rate reduction by strategically identifying offenders and developing a plan to mitigate.
Continually mine for ways to expand upon category through product extensions or additions.
Partner with inventory control to establish realistic forecasts and buy plans that will support demand, margin, and inventory turn goals.
Present accurate and thorough data for seasonal selling updatesPresent assumptions and conclusions that affect the future direction of the division and be prepared to answer questions about those assumptions.
Responsible for maintaining data integrity of merchandising attributes from item inception through to printed catalogs, retail, and online selling.
Adhere to calendar timelines while influencing partners to do the same in order to keep to strict deadlines for on time delivery.
Build strong teamwork and communication strategies with product development, marketing, inventory control, ecommerce, and catalog production.
Collaborate with digital marketing to execute seasonal strategies through web, social, and email.
Qualifications
Bachelor`s degree
7+ years of retail merchandising/buying experience, or comparable merchandising and inventory planning experience
Experience and proven track record managing teams at a high performing level
Previous experience in a catalog environment preferred
Previous experience in digital environment preferred
Advanced proficiency in microsoft office products: excel, word, powerpoint
Excellent organizational skills and ability to communicate plans and requirements clearly and concisely to a variety of teams including our executive team
Additional information
This position directly supervises administrative and merchandising associatesFlexible/remote work options available as role allows, however relocation to salt lake city will be required.
If you would like to be part of a great team, are ready to take on a challenge and make a difference within our company, apply today.
We offer a competitive wage and excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, 401(k), paid time off, and great merchandise discounts.
For more information about our culture and brand at sundance, please visit https://careers.smartrecruiters.com/sundanceholdingsgroupllc
For the sundance story, visit: https://www.sundancecatalog.com/category/customer+service/about+us.do
Sundance is an equal opportunity employerWe do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, lactation, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military service, veteran status, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
All applicants have rights under federal employment laws, including family and medical leave act (fmla), equal employment opportunity (eeo) and employee polygraph protection act (eppa).
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