Director of Merchandising - PINK Beauty

About the position Responsibilities • Align PINK Beauty with annual category growth objectives, actively reacting to shifts in performance at the category and collection level • Drive product innovation within the core products as well as new innovative products • Drive category business by 'outside of the box' thinking that connects the lines between financial patterns and market/customer insights to identify growth opportunities • Lead across the enterprise, keeping PINK Beauty in lock step with the PINK Brand • Demonstrate a holistic approach and champion cross-category alignment and partnership between design, production and planning partners and PINK Lingerie and Apparel leaders • Develop and maintain effective working relationships with members of cross-functional teams by leading critical business meetings that impact forward strategy and prioritization of workload for direct reports and cross-functional partners • Lead day-to-day communication between all members of the team • Own Digital Merchandising partnership to formulate a web optimization strategy that maximizes the potential for merchandising, navigation, promotion, and conversion • Own international partnership and communication • Drive new business incubation strategies with Marketing, PR, & Store Operations • Drive speed initiatives to support evolution of the business • Accountable for sales, growth, and margin targets for the department, recognizing opportunities for incremental growth and risk management • Develop departmental architecture by season in partnership with Planning, ensuring line plan and volume distortions stay within the financial framework of the total category • Collaborate across departments to build and cascade seasonal hindsight, focusing on impact to forward strategy in building financial architecture, product assortments, and inventory investments at the attribute level • Ensure price-value relationship is in line with market competitiveness and customer expectation • Understand product trends and historical data at the category level in order to manage in-season opportunities through Open-To-Buy process • Partner with Planning and Allocation teams to determine key item base and breadth of selection in order to maximize inventory investment and product availability • Actively participate in conceptual and design meetings to impact strategy each season to cascade seasonal intents to the team, enabling a cohesive line edit and appropriate mix of business in support of line plan • Own attribute distortions of color/size/store investments and recommended action plans, reviewing and approving recommendations from books of business • Effectively manage and quantify category opportunities through the execution and prioritization of new product launches, launch testing, seasonal fashion newness, and core product exit strategies • Drive cross-functional partnership (design, sourcing, production) to influence product pipeline, delivering an assortment that correlates with the positioning of the brand, trend and opportunity • Maximize customer experience by driving execution of all sales education & store operations, marketing, and visual requests across categories (pre-season and in-season) • Understand competitive environment; proactively seek market knowledge through exposure to aspirational retailers • Oversee customer intimacy and competitive intelligence activities for a thorough understanding of the client and market landscape to recommend and initiate new product development • Participate in competitive patterning trips and continuously research the market to identify and analyze beauty trends while staying up-to-date with competitors' product selection strategies • Train, motivate and develop team to ensure effective performance and growth through consistent on-the-job training • Architect training curriculum by identifying skill set opportunities; provide a holistic learning experience by level • Act as a role model within the company by coaching and teaching team members to work together and remain focused • Provide strong mentoring and leadership to the Merchandising team and cross-functional partners Requirements • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience • 8+ years of Merchandising experience • Beauty experience ideally with emphasis on Product Development • 4+ years of management experience • Experience in brands focusing on Gen Z customer • Successful track record for high volume business growth and bottom-line results • Intimate understanding of competition, target customer and the brand specific fashion trends • Strong passion for trends, demonstrate an extreme curiosity and knowledge of the industry and customer, and have an innovative, forward-thinking mindset to anticipate and identify white space within the beauty space • Possess strong presentation, listening, verbal and written communication skills • Ability to successfully identify, train, and develop merchandising talent • Systems and computer proficiency (MS Office, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel) Benefits • Minimum Salary: $148,000.00 • Maximum Salary: $209,790.00 Apply tot his job Apply To this Job