Merchandise Manager - Mens
Merchandise Manager - Mens
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Job Description
Fashion Novais the worlds leading trendtomarket fashion and lifestyle brand with highgrowth categories across its Women Men Kids and Beauty divisions. Renowned for delivering the mostwanted styles to millions worldwideFashion Novaearned the title of the Top 5 MostSearched Fashion Brand on Google in 2022 alongside Louis Vuitton and Nike.
Founder & CEO Richard Saghian launched the brand in 2006 from a retail location in Los Angeles. After multiple store openings Saghian launched the ecommerce website forFashion Novain 2013 pioneering a disruptive social commerce model of affordable ontrend sizeinclusive clothing online powered by an innovative social mediafirst marketing strategy.
Today Fashion Nova has amassed over 40 million social media followers with annual sales of approximately $2 billion!
The brands name has been featured in charttopping hit songs by Cardi B Drake 21 Savage Saweetie The Game Tyga and Offset and its styles have been worn by many celebrities artists and athletes including Meg The Stallion Ice Spice Chris Brown Floyd Mayweather Rick Ross Kourtney Kardashian and Kylie Jenner.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Under the guidance of the VP of Buying you as a Merchandise Manager will work to create the appropriate merchandise mix based on emerging trends and manage the assortment strategies established by your team leaders. You will also be responsible for managing your category product assortment and delivering on financial targets while also managing a team of buyers. Your role is essential to ensuring Fashion Nova has the best product offerings for our customers.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Drive Assortment Strategy:Develop and execute buying strategies to curate trenddriven product assortments that align with customer preferences and seasonal trends while achieving optimal SKU count and balancing newness vs. replenishment inventory
- Trend Forecasting: Stay ahead of fashion trends by conducting market research keeping a pulse runway trends and analyzing social media and competitors to ensure a competitive and forwardthinking product mix. Utilize research to work with inhouse production team and suppliers to drive ontrend newness
- Cost Negotiation & Margin Optimization: Lead pricing negotiations with suppliers to secure the best cost structures while maintaining product quality ensuring profitability and maximizing margins in a highly competitive market
- Financial Management: Manage weekly sales performance opentobuy budgets pricing margin targets and inventory levels ensuring alignment with sales goals and profit margins while optimizing the balance of newness and replenishment and minimizing markdowns
- CrossFunctional Collaboration: Partner with production replenishment planning and creative teams to ensure timely deliveries fast replenishment of highdemand styles successful promotions to maximize sales opportunities andcohesive product launches
- DataDriven Decisions: Utilize sales performance data customer reviews and market insights to continuously optimize product assortments and increase profitability
- Mentor buyers in vendor relations attending all vendor meetings to help strengthen their negotiation skills and teaching them how to maximize our vendor base
- Organize and present your areas big ideas on orders so all cross functional teams are aware of key incoming trends
- Attend and participate in weekly marketing meetings voicing needs for your categories
- Review and approve all extension requests prices and colors including lab dip approvals and fabric confirmations for your areas
- Cover the area when the Category Director is unavailable functioning as their back up
- Strategically scout and evaluate new vendors to support business needs
ROLE REQUIREMENTS
- 9 years of experience in Buying for apparel ideally within an eCommerce fashion brand with at least 2 years of experience managing a team of buyers
- Strong understanding of current and emerging fashion trends with a deep passion for the fashion industry
- Experience working with vendors and negotiating product quality costs and delivery dates with vendors
- Excellent prioritization project management organization skills and attention to detail in addition to strong analytical skills to support datadriven decisions
- High Proficiency in Excel PowerPoint and Google Workspace
- Bachelors Degree in Fashion Production Design or related field or equivalent work experience
- English additional language(s) an advantage
- Schedule of this position: Monday Friday Core business hours Onsite
BENEFITS
- NEWstateoftheart HQ upcoming in 2025!
- Formalized career paths for continued professional growth
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Comprehensive health insurance across MedicalDental and Vision
- 401k match with immediate vesting upon eligibility
- Weekly catered lunches & fullystock kitchen pantry!
- Opportunities to travel for trade shows and vendor meetings
- Summer Fridays Early Departure
- Team bonding events and programs
- Attractive employee discounts!
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
