Merchandise Manager

7 days ago

Gauteng, South Africa The Foschini Group Full time

**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 **#LI-OG1

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