Merchandising Manager

3 giorni fa

Lombardia, Italia LVMH Tempo pieno

Merchandising Manager (fixed-term for maternity cover)

Being the right hand for the Merchandising Director, the Merchandising Manager brings the analytical point of view to structure the merchandising strategy, and acts as a connection and facilitator across the different departments: Design, Retail, Wholesale and Ecommerce, to achieve business objectives.

Job responsabilities

Retail, Wholesale & E.Commerce

  • Define Master Order worldwide, merchandising selection and buying guidelines.
  • Open to buy in collaboration with Finance and Retail
  • Reviewing orders with buyer in order to guarantee Brand Identity and coherence
  • Collection presentation to the Retail, E.Commerce and Wholesale Teams, with focus on Core Products
  • Support wholesale during the selling campaign
  • Monitoring and analyze sell out retail sales
  • Organize weekly meeting with Retail and E.Commerce to monitor sales and activities
  • Organize monthly meeting with wholesales monitoring sales and activities
  • Cooperation with Visual Merchandising for shop windows and internal display on Retail, Wholesale and other activations

Collection

  • Preparation of the Collection Briefing for Design Team, detecting and evaluating consumer insight
  • Development of the commercial product range in collaboration with Design Team and Product Development Team, including pre-order fabrics in collaboration with the Production Team
  • Managing the process of defining price objectives for the collections
  • Managing product life circle: mark downs/carry over and cleans ups
  • Development of product manuals on Collection technical features for the training document to Retail Wholesale and E.Commerce
  • Monitoring both on a qualitative and on a quantitative levels competitors and fashion trends on pricing, products, materials, shapes, styles
  • Managing of any unplanned Special project
  • Guarantee commercial forecast activities related to collections’ trends (sell out forecast to allow Production start over)
  • Interaction with Retail, E.Commerce, wholesale, Designer, product development, production, Visual merchandising, Marketing office

Profile

Profile

  • University degree in Economics/ Marketing, with at least 3-5 year old experience in Merchandising (preferably Retail)
  • Strong knowledge of Woman RTW, and deep understanding of Luxury market, trends and fashion
  • Proactive and positive attitude
  • Problem solving ability
  • Excellent analytics
  • Working for priorities and for objectives
  • Team player
  • Openness to diversity

Language Competences

  • Languages: English fluent, French is a plus
  • Pro user for XLS and PPT

Additional information

The annual gross salary (RAL) for this role starts from €45,000 and will be determined based on the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate.