Colony Brands, Inc. · 1 week ago
Divisional Merchandise Manager
Monroe, WI
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
10+ years expColony Brands, Inc. is a family-owned company with a rich history in the home goods business, seeking a Divisional Merchandise Manager to lead their merchandising efforts. The role involves developing merchandising strategies, mentoring a team of merchants, and collaborating with various departments to enhance customer experience and profitability.
ConsumerHealth Care
Hiring Manager
Rudy Folk
Responsibilities
Developing a strong team of all levels of merchants by mentoring and teaching both fundamentals and advanced concepts to continually elevate merchandising competencies in the organization
Ensuring appropriate training on best practices, processes, reports, and communication to enhance the skill development and career growth of the Merchandising team
Evaluating existing merchandising practices and presenting recommendations to improve outcomes and achieve operational efficiencies
Developing annual budgets and providing financial oversight of merchandising expenses and variances
Providing indirect leadership and partnering with the Divisional Planning, Inventory, and Sourcing teams
Driving collaboration with Brand Marketing, Quality Assurance & Internet, Legal, Traffic & Logistics, Fulfillment Operations, Call Centers, Accounting, Integrated Marketing Services, Creative Marketing Services, etc
Consistently incorporate Colony Brands’ core values into work culture, including:
Fostering, valuing, and rewarding a team-oriented, performance-driven, and customer-focused culture
Reinforces accountability to individual and business results
Providing direction, sharing information, and cultivating two-way dialog within the merchandising organization
Creates a climate that inspires and enables merchandising staff to formulate creative ideas to keep our portfolio of brands exciting and purposeful in the minds of customers
Partnering with Planning to develop catalog offer plans that achieve financial goals of Colony Brands (KPIs/IPIs) and working closely with cross-functional Supply Chain partners to support key business initiatives and process improvement
Analyzing in-season and hindsight business performance to determine successes, trends, and applying an understanding of historical performance, industry competitors, and multi-channel merchandising to recommend assortment and pricing strategies to maximize financial results in both print and digital channels
Driving all merchandising-owned Seasonal Planning Calendar milestones and deliverables
Establishing merchandising standard operation procedures (SOP’s), key deliverable templates, and training
Evaluating seasonal assortment plans and providing guidance to the Merchandising team on category goals, line structure, price points, product mix, QA issues, vendor performance, etc. to provide products that are customer-relevant, aligned to each brand’s direction, and achieve financial targets
Taking projects from concept to full implementation, including process and objectives development, delegation to team members, communication and follow-up with all involved parties to ensure best results
Acquiring a strong understanding of the scope of the business and adapting creative tools to solving general business problems
Qualification
Required
At least 10 years' Merchandising experience
10+ years' experience in a product merchandising in a multi-brand and multi-channel environment or a brand with a high complexity of directives and strategies
Exceptional leadership and mentoring skills
Bachelor's degree in Business, Retail Consumer Science, or related curriculum
A strategic mindset and sound reasoning skills to understand the factors influencing strategy such as customers, competition, and the organization's strengths and weakness
A demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with diverse individuals and achieve positive results through others
Financial and business acumen and prior budgeting experience with the ability to develop these skills in others
An understanding of product development, market good requests, and the sourcing process
A critical understanding of the market to lead merchandising efforts for multiple brands
Effective organizational skills with the proven ability to manage multiple priorities/tasks and complex, multi-department projects to optimal completion
Demonstrated passion for external customers and respect for internal partners to behaviors, decisions, and actions
Excellent communication and presentation skills especially to senior leadership
Ability to work on site 100% of the time and fifteen (15) work from home days of your choice annually
Preferred
Experience in home goods
Experience in Retail or Internet Sales
Benefits
Ability to work on site 100% of the time and fifteen (15) work from home days of your choice annually.
Company
Colony Brands, Inc.
Colony Brands, Inc. is one of North America's largest, multi-channel direct-marketing companies.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Tom Newell
Chief Financial Officer
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