About the Role

As Director, Division Merchandising Manager of Women’s Footwear you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the merchandising strategy to ensure we offer the most compelling and on-trend footwear assortment across our omni-channel platform. This role is critical in shaping our product assortment, maximizing sales, and enhancing customer satisfaction. You will create and drive a customer-obsessed product merchandising vision and business strategy to meet Category goals. You will be responsible for leading a merchandising team and cross-functional category team for end-to-end execution of product vision for National and Proprietary Brands. As a key partner to Design, you will also own and drive the intersection of product innovation and commercialization.

WHAT YOU’LL DO :

Incorporate customer insights, competition and category trends to set overarching category assortment vision into business strategy, and respond to in-season business trends

Communicate overarching omni-merchandising vision to category cross-functional teams

Drive innovation and make bold trade-offs to maximize category and brand

Serve as the customer and competitive expert for product, brand and category

Operate as a key Design partner to create customer, business and brand-relevant product offerings

Own product strategy and buying decisions for National and Proprietary brands

Visit relevant markets and regions to gather product and consumer information, ideate future product strategies and establish business relationships

Leads and challenges the merchandising and planning teams to appropriately price product to deliver on sales velocity, markdown and profit goals

Partner with Marketing team to develop sub-category marketing strategies, identify key merchandise stories and plan the timing of marketing campaigns

Lead and develop your team, identifying and building best-in-class talent and drive overall team engagement

Meet KPIs including Sales Performance, Merchandise Gross Margin performance, Turnover Performance to Profit and Loss, Customer Choice Metric and Change Management

Support and execute the team vision, set clear objectives, assign and direct work, manage performance, and maintain open communications to create an effective work environment

What Skills You Have

Required

Minimum of 7 years of experience in retail buying, with a focus on women’s footwear

Deep understanding of market trends, consumer behavior, and competitive landscape in the women’s footwear industry

Broad thinker with an enterprise view

Exceptional product acumen and ability to lead product creation and select relevant product

Catalyst of change with a growth mindset

Strong sense of curiosity, agility, urgency and resiliency

Outstanding communication and presentation skills

Strong collaboration and influence skills to build long-term strategic partnerships

Adept strategic and analytical skills to deliver growth

Passion and eye for product and customer obsession

Ability to develop top talent and highly engaged teams