Merchandise Manager
3 weeks ago
**Summary of the Role**
Opportunity to shape and drive the omni-channel growth strategy for Jet, a well-established value homeware retailer.
Play a critical role in transforming Jet’s omni home presence by leveraging consumer insights and market trends to deliver a compelling value proposition. This role will involve testing and evaluating new product lines for potential rollouts into stores and creating an "endless aisle" experience for customers by extending product choices.
**Key Responsibilities**:
- **Strategy and Product Range Planning**:
Develop and implement a comprehensive category strategy for omni-channel in line with Jet’s business goals. Identify new homeware and furniture opportunities based on gaps in the current assortment, market insights and trends, and establish an end-to-end product strategy.
- **Pricing, Promotion & Inventory Management**:
Create pricing and promotional strategies that align with the company’s value proposition and margin targets. Manage inventory to test market demand while mitigating inventory risk.
- **Supplier & Vendor Relationships**:
Build and maintain strong supplier relationships to negotiate favourable terms, costs, and margins.
- **Cross-functional Collaboration**:
Work closely with digital marketing and technology teams to optimise omni-channel merchandising and customer experience. Use data analysis to track performance and identify growth opportunities.
**Qualifications Experience**:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field; an MBA or related graduate degree is a plus.
- Proven track record in senior merchandising roles
- Experience managing multiple product categories with a focus on assortment planning, pricing strategy, and vendor management.
**Skills**:
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret sales data, market trends, and customer insights.
- Excellent negotiation skills and experience managing vendor relationships.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities, with experience managing and developing high-performing teams.
- Strong communication skills, able to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
**Behaviours**:
- Builds Networks - establishes and nurtures internal and external relationships in order to create robust, and mutually beneficial, partnerships
- Collaborates - effectively works with others to achieve shared goals
- Communicates Effectively - conveys information and communicates ideas in a clear, concise and impactful manner
- Customer Focus - understands, anticipates, and meets the needs and expectations of customers
- Ensures Accountability - takes accountability and ensures others are held to account on agreed upon performance targets
- Manages Complexity - interprets and simplifies complex and contradictory information when resolving organisational problems
- Persuades - effectively influences others by gaining support and commitment in the delivery of organisational goals and objectives
- Plans and Aligns - develops plans and prioritises initiatives that align to the organisational goals and objectives
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