Denim Merchandiser

About the Role

As a key member of our team, you will play a vital role in driving the success of our retail outlets. Your primary focus will be on understanding customer needs and preferences through off-price channels and regions. Using this insight, you will make informed commercial decisions on product level to positively impact profitability, working closely with our Retail team, global merchandising, allocation team, and marketing team.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Establish and monitor store capacity and inventory levels for our outlet stores and Off-price online channel.
• Develop and maintain store clusters using store volume, profile, capacity, and performance by gender/product group, seasonality, and region.
• Translate the overall merchandising strategy to assortment strategy to determine the right product mix by channel, focusing on width vs breadth of the collection and product mix, with a close eye on physical space vs potential to sell in our stores.
• Determine merchandise strategy per region for each of the channels (geography planning) to create an aligned multi-region assortment mix.
• Determine pre-season OTB by channel and align the product department with the right strategy to fulfill OTB for each of the channels.
• Monitor critical metrics, in conjunction with our marketing team and global merchandise and allocation team, ensuring deadlines are met and potential problems are identified at line level.
• Clearly communicate to management the impact on launch position and review performance to identify emerging trends, avoid missed opportunities, and closely cooperate with merchandise planners for other channels, contributing to our weekly trading meetings.
• Forecast monthly KPIs such as sales, margin, stock, and OTB (WSSI) and leverage stock positions for our outlet channels to maximize sell-out potential versus stock investment positively impacting profitability.

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related study field.
• Excellent skills in Excel (reporting and handling big data amounts, executing pivots, and other analysis).
• Experience working with senior leadership, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build strong relationships across the business.
• Excellent retail math and analytical skills with a strong link to translate to product. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

About You

We're looking for a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team. If you're passionate about denim and have a strong background in product planning and merchandising, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your application, and let's discuss how you can contribute to our success.