Merchandising Manager, High Jewelry - Harry Winston : Job Details

Job Summary

The High Jewelry Merchandising Manager will assist in achieving planned store inventory levels and the maintenance of global merchandise assortments to maximize profitability. The manager plays a fundamental role in assisting the salons with securing their sales as well as supporting the Marketing department on key projects all year round.

Key Duties Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Stock management

• Ensure each salon always has the best possible assortment to represent the Harry Winston brand and maximize sales opportunities
• Create and manage stock rotation plans
• Monitor stock levels and make appropriate callouts to team regarding allocation, stock rebalance, re-ordering etc. to maintain sufficient stock to secure sales

Salon openings

• Partner with Demand Planner to create assortment proposal for Senior Management to review for implementation
• Review salons assortment closely to ensure stock representation is consistently kept at the highest level
• Engage in frequent conversations with the salons Directors globally to truly understand and meet their needs

Sales analysis

• Including but not limited to, collection performance by region and globally, top sellers, salon ranking, product type, price segment, replenishment priority etc.
• Thoroughly understanding the business needs and proactively recommending action plans aimed at increasing sales and brand visibility
• Analyze stock and sales data on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly basis and clearly present findings and recommendations to Senior Management
• Accurately maintain existing reports while continuously looking at improving and creating new ones that can improve productivity

New launches

• Work closely with Category Management and Vice President to execute launch plan for new product and collections based on strategy and rotation plan
• Closely monitor performance and make recommendations to maximize profitability

Supply life cycle review

• Analyze product lines/collections performance and make recommendations to Vice President and Category Management to phase out unproductive inventory

Marketing

• Collaborate with the Marketing team to support celebrity dressing opportunities, editorials, photoshoots, catalogues, and campaigns initiatives by recommending optimal product selection
• Events planning
• Develop and maintain strong and trustworthy relationships with internal cross functional teams and salon teams worldwide
• Collaborate with other managers to brainstorm strategies to maximize profits
• Train, manage and develop a team of two direct reports fostering a collaborative and engaging work environment
• Ad-hoc analysis and projects

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree
• Minimum 3 5 years merchandising experience
• Jewelry experience
• Experience managing, developing, and coaching a team
• Strong business acumen
• Proactive and takes the initiative to drive business and think outside the box
• Ability to negotiate with and influence peers and members of cross functional teams
• Ability to build and maintain trustworthy business relationships
• Strong sense of organization, priority, and efficiency
• Demonstrates excellent problem-solving skills
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, ability to manage multiple projects independently and in a timely manner
• Demonstrates strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Must have strong technical skills; specifically, with Microsoft Excel (macros, v-lookups, pivot tables, complex formulas, etc.) and in dealing with large data sets