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Chief Merchandising Officer

Mud Pie

Job Location:

Stone Mountain, GA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 3 June 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 31 August 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Summary

Mud Pie is a leading lifestyle brand specializing in home décor gifts and apparel known for creating thoughtfully designed products that celebrate lifes everyday moments. We are a collaborative organization with a strong focus on creativity quality and delivering products our customers love.

Mud Pie is seeking a strategic collaborative and business-minded Chief Merchanting Officer to join our team at our Atlanta-area corporate headquarters. This newly created leadership role will be responsible for driving a disciplined customer-focused merchandising strategy that improves SKU productivity inventory turns margin performance category growth and cross-channel assortment alignment.

Chief Merchandising Officer will work hand-in-hand with Finance Marketing Sales and Product Development to help shape product strategy optimize assortments drive category performance and ensure alignment between creative vision and business objectives. This leader will play a critical role in balancing innovation customer needs margin goals assortment planning buying inventory productivity category management pricing strategy visual merchandising and seasonal execution across wholesale ecommerce and marketplaces.

This is a highly visible opportunity for a strategic merchant who thrives in fast-paced evolving environments and enjoys building structure influencing across teams and driving meaningful impact within a leading and growing wholesale and consumer brand.

Merchandising Strategy & Assortment Planning:

Lead enterprise merchandising strategy across wholesale DTC ecommerce and marketplaces channels
Develop seasonal assortment architecture by category channel customer and price point
Drive SKU rationalization assortment productivity and category growth strategies
Build and manage category line plans breadth/depth strategies and inventory flow
Partner with Product Development leadership to align assortment strategy with seasonal product direction and business priorities
Establish evergreen replenishment and seasonal product strategies where appropriate
Analyze customer sales and inventory data to identify whitespace and growth opportunities
Monitor competitive landscape customer trends and market opportunities to inform merchandising decisions

Inventory Pricing & Financial Management:

Own merchandising KPIs including sales gross margin sell-through inventory turn weeks of supply and SKU productivity
Partner with Operations Finance Product Development and Supply Chain teams to optimize inventory investments and flow timing
Drive pricing markdown and promotional strategies that balance margin and inventory productivity
Lead in-season business analysis and reforecasting processes
Improve merchandising reporting forecasting and decision-making frameworks
Support open-to-buy management and inventory lifecycle planning

Cross-Functional Commercialization GTM & Visual Merchandising Partnership

Partner closely with Product Marketing Ecommerce Creative Sales and PR teams to support successful seasonal launches and category storytelling
Help prioritize key collections launches and commercial opportunities across channels
Translate product direction into compelling customer-facing merchandising strategies across wholesale ecommerce marketplaces and retail environments
Partner with Creative and Ecommerce teams to elevate visual merchandising digital storytelling category presentation and onsite customer experience
Help establish merchandising standards for product presentation collection flow category hierarchy and seasonal storytelling across all customer touchpoints
Support launch planning and commercialization efforts across ecommerce wholesale marketplaces and retail channels
Ensure merchandising priorities are clearly communicated across the organization
Partner with Marketing and Ecommerce teams to support campaign planning category storytelling and customer engagement strategies
Contribute to launch recap and seasonal hindsight processes to continuously improve performance

Team Leadership & Organizational Development

Lead mentor and develop the merchandising team
Establish clear merchandising processes calendars milestones and accountability
Build a collaborative data-driven customer-focused merchandising culture
Partner cross-functionally to improve communication alignment and operational efficiency
Help evolve merchandising capabilities and organizational structure as the business changes
Foster a culture of collaboration accountability urgency and continuous improvement

Qualifications

10 years of merchandising buying or category management experience within consumer brands ecommerce or wholesale organizations
Strong background in assortment planning inventory management merchandising analytics and category performance
Experience managing merchandising processes across multiple channels including wholesale and ecommerce
Proven ability to drive sales growth margin improvement and inventory productivity
Strong analytical financial and operational acumen
Experience leading and developing teams
Excellent communication collaboration and organizational leadership skills
Strong understanding of customer behavior seasonal merchandising and retail storytelling
Ability to operate both strategically and hands-on in a fast-moving environment
Experience in home gift lifestyle apparel or consumer products