Merchandising Manager

Job Description

Join our team at the Hearst Luxury Collection as we build The Tower, the e-commerce marketplace from the editors of ELLE, Esquire, Harper's BAZAAR, and Town & Country. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the most passionate and creative team members in the entire industry. The Tower is a unique hybrid of content and commerce. We are the ultimate lens of discovery- a highly curated vision from the world's most compelling minds. The Tower is a store like no other, offering an elevated environment to showcase brands via four unique titles on a centralized platform. The Tower's editorial authority differentiates us from other e-commerce sites, and allows us the opportunity to discover niche brands and create exclusive merchandise offerings for an unparalleled shopping experience. Our team works closely with boutique marketplace retail partners and brands to bring consumers the very best products every season. The ideal candidate possesses a strong understanding of the luxury industry and is a creative, analytical, cross-team collaborator.

Responsibilities:
• Curate marketplace retail and experiential partners' assortment on The Tower.
• Develop product assortment and retail merchandising strategies that align with brand visions and support financial targets while leveraging data analytics around category sales, consumer behavior and distinct brand audiences.
• Partners with finance team to prepare financial reporting to ensure targets are being met and assortment is aligned to overall business plan.
• Analyze daily, weekly, monthly selling to build a forecasting model driven by customer behavior and can recommend and implement actions to meet or exceed sales targets.
• Understands sales trends and can communicate their implication to different departments (digital marketing, editorial, vendors etc).
• Interface with multi and mono-brand business leads, merchants, buyers and designers
• Establish deep partnerships with editorial teams, marketplace retailers, designers, artists, musicians and cultural notables creating collaborations, exclusive products and experiential on-line and in-store events
• Partner with the Tower editorial team in curating product for editorial and branded content.
• Reviews and coordinates recommendations regarding promotional strategies put forth by ecommerce, digital marketing and content marketing teams.
• Willing to provide in-person store and brand experiential support as needed.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint and retail math skills

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree
• 6-10 years
of experience in luxury and/or contemporary fashion brands, preferably in buying, merchandising, and/or planning
• Strong understanding of buying and merchandising processes and financials in both in brick and mortar retail and e-commerce.
• Proficiency in retail math and the ability to manage profitability, marketplace experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience utilizing consumer research and data to inform product assortment and/or content strategy, marketing experience a plus.
• A dynamic and flexible manager who is a tactical problem-solver and willing to change strategies as the business needs dictate.
• Experienced in luxury retail, with a strong understanding of consumers and retailers across the country
• Analytics and result oriented with the ability to analyze multiple types of reports (customer behavior, sales, marketing etc) and draw conclusions to drive strategy and sales.
• Strong knowledge and relationships with emerging and established luxury and contemporary brands.
• Experience in Mens, Jewelry, Accessories and Beauty a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting to senior management.
• Strong interest in Fashion, Art, Interior Design, Music, Design, Pop Culture
• Elevated and sophisticated taste level.
• Acute understanding of fashion trends and direction
• Strong business acumen

As part of its continued efforts to maintain a safe workplace for employees, Hearst Magazines requires that all employees who receive a written offer of employment be fully vaccinated (as defined by the CDC) against the coronavirus by the first day of employment as a condition of employment, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Hearst Magazines will consider requests for reasonable accommodations on an individual basis in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

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