Merchant, Emerging Businesses Jobs

Description

This is a hybrid position that can be based out of our New York City or Columbus, OH headquarters.

Your Role

The Merchant develops and drives strategies and seasonal assortment plans for a category of business based on detailed knowledge of the brand, intimate understanding of the customer, and studied appreciation of the competition and overall marketplace. The Merchant demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of the connection between financial strategies and related merchandise objectives. The position collaborates directly with various cross functional teams including but not limited to design, merchandise planning, demand & deployment, production, stores operations, and visual presentation to ensure execution of the accurate brand vision and category goals.

Why You Belong Here

At Victoria’s Secret, we acknowledge your value. We recognize that every associate has something unique to add to our brand and business. We strive to recruit, retain, and advance diverse talent that reflects the customers we serve and the communities where we live and work. We foster a culture where everyone belongs because we know our business thrives most when we look for, listen to, and amplify diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We place the customer at the heart of everything we do. We dream big, embrace curiosity and creativity while always learning from our mistakes. We lead with integrity, trust, and respect to achieve the best outcomes as one team.

Your Impact

• Develop and support merchandising strategies that are incorporated into the annual and seasonal business plan to achieve sales and profit plans
• Develop a strategic point of view of category growth plans and product pipeline
• Manage in-season business by tracking and analyzing sales data to identify opportunities to increase sales, improve margins, maximize inventory, and decrease markdowns
• Strategize and anticipate the up-and-coming fashions/items/looks/products and create distortion to optimize the potential of that future trend
• Develop strong partnerships with Merchandise Planning and Allocation, Marketing, and external Brand teams
• Identify whitespace opportunities and challenges for in-season business and future-season line planning
• Communicate competitive data to the organization to recommend "first in market" changes and ways to increase sales and profit results
• Leverage retail experience and expertise to intimately understand the target customer, brand, competition, and trends
• Influence cross-functional teams in translating customer, competitor, and merchandise fashion knowledge into action
• Complement key item base with a breadth of selection to include newness through novelty items without over-assorting

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Strong presentations skills and able to articulate clear strategies
• Acute sense of brand and customer intimacy with an ability to translate trends
• Strong communication skills when dealing with internal and external partners
• Systems and computer proficiency (MS Office, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Exudes passion for trends, show an extreme curiosity and knowledge in the industry, and has a forward-thinking mindset to anticipate the ever-changing trends
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills along with an entrepreneurial risk mentality
• Innovative thinker with the ability to identify the newest trends and whitespace opportunities
• Successful track record for delivering high-volume business growth and bottom line results
• Wholesale experience or experience in intimates and apparel
• Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years’ experience in Merchandising

Additional Preferred Experience

• Prior experience leading a team

An equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment because of an individual’s race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status or any other protected category recognized by state, federal or local laws. We only hire individuals authorized for employment in the United States.