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.

📌 Merchandising Manager (Lombardia)
🏢 Lvmh
📍 Lombardia