Senior Associate SRB Curated Merchant
Senior Associate SRB Curated Merchant
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Job Description
This role is a hybrid position located in our Boston HQ. This role sits in office MTh and is remote on Fridays.
Senior Merchandise Associate Curated Merchandising Physical Retail
Specialty Retail Brands (AllModern Birch Lane Joss & Main)
Wayfairs Specialty Retail Brands AllModern Birch Lane Joss & Main target the $60B specialty furniture market and are incremental to Wayfair LLC. These brands provide a tightly curated assortment of highly stylish and elevated quality products for the styleobsessed specialty customer.
What Youll Do
As Curated Merchandising Lead you are responsible for optimizing product assortment and presentation in our physical retail stores. This role acts as a crucial liaison between merchants planning & allocation (P&A) visual merchandising and store teams ensuring seamless of merchandising strategies and maximizing sales. You will manage the product lifecycle analyze sales data and drive storespecific improvements to enhance the customer experience.
- Drive storespecific customer experience improvements collaborating with merchants on initiatives such as swatch programs or other localized enhancements.
- Manage and maintain the Retail Assortment Tracking Tool (RATT) ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
- Coordinate and communicate product lifecycle decisions (discontinuations swaps drops) between merchants P&A Visual Merchandising and Store Teams.
- Collaborate with leadership and P&A to establish frameworks and targets for seasonal product additions and mobilize teams to achieve those goals.
- Coordinate merchant input for alignment and finalization decks as well as seasonal hindsight reports.
- Collect and synthesize feedback from store managers regarding product performance presentation and customer needs.
- Proactively identify and address product availability issues collaborating with merchant teams to implement corrective actions for problematic items/suppliers.
- Contribute to signage development by providing input into creative briefs and ensuring alignment with merchandising strategies.
- Conduct planogram scans to assess product placement and identify opportunities for optimization.
- Support store flip operations and address storespecific needs related to merchandising and visual presentation.
- Serve as a liaison between stores and promotional teams focusing on highpriority items featured in key promotional periods.
- Partner with merchants and store teams to develop and deliver product knowledge and training materials.
- Provide weekly business updates analyzing sales data and making recommendations to merchants visual merchandising and P&A teams particularly ahead of seasonal floor flips.
What Youll Need
- 4 years of experience within an ecommerce or corporate retail organization preferred. Preferably experience in buying/retail merchandising or retail home furnishing planning.
- A strong interest in building a career in buying and/or supplier relationship management
- A passion or knowledge of industry trends style and product design
- Ability to understand a brand vision aesthetic and customer base and how to bring that to life through the product assortment
- Ability to cut data and think critically about the business; ability to understand and interpret sales and performance trends and apply learning to the business
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and the ability to influence crossfunctionally
- A personable and energetic communicator eager to build relationships with new business partners both internally and externally
- Ability to communicate and feel comfortable speaking directly with Csuite level suppliers from large companies
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once; you dont miss the details and can work autonomously and with partners to drive projects and tasks to completion
- Ability to hit the ground running a selfstarter capable of achieving specific target goals
About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the worlds largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world were reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industryleading technology and creative problemsolving we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If youre looking for rapid growth constant learning and dynamic challenges then youll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.
No matter who you are Wayfair is a place you can call home. Were a community of innovators risktakers and trailblazers who celebrate our differences and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger smarter and wellpositioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees customers community and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair and world for all. Every voice every perspective matters. Thats why were proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race color ethnicity ancestry religion sex national origin sexual orientation age citizenship status marital status disability gender identity gender expression veteran status genetic information or any other legally protected characteristic.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
