Sr. Associate - Specialty Retail Brands (SRB) Curated Merchant

Senior Associate - SRB Curated Merchant

Specialty Retail Brands (AllModern, Birch Lane, Joss & Main): Wayfair’s Specialty Retail Brands target the $60B specialty furniture market and are incremental to Wayfair LLC. These brands provide a tightly curated assortment of highly stylish and elevated quality products for the style-obsessed specialty customer.

What You'll Do

As Curated Merchandising Lead, you are responsible for optimizing product assortment and presentation in our physical retail stores. This role acts as a crucial liaison between merchants, planning & allocation (P&A), visual merchandising, and store teams, ensuring seamless execution of merchandising strategies and maximizing sales. You will manage the product lifecycle, analyze sales data, and drive store-specific improvements to enhance the customer experience.

• Drive store-specific customer experience improvements, collaborating with merchants on initiatives such as swatch programs or other localized enhancements.

• Manage and maintain the Retail Assortment Tracking Tool (RATT), ensuring data accuracy and integrity.

• Coordinate and communicate product lifecycle decisions (discontinuations, swaps, drops) between merchants, P&A, Visual Merchandising, and Store Teams.

• Collaborate with leadership and P&A to establish frameworks and targets for seasonal product additions, and mobilize teams to achieve those goals.

• Coordinate merchant input for alignment and finalization decks, as well as seasonal hindsight reports.

• Collect and synthesize feedback from store managers regarding product performance, presentation, and customer needs.

• Proactively identify and address product availability issues, collaborating with merchant teams to implement corrective actions for problematic items/suppliers.

• Contribute to signage development by providing input into creative briefs and ensuring alignment with merchandising strategies.

• Conduct planogram scans to assess product placement and identify opportunities for optimization.

• Support store flip operations and address store-specific needs related to merchandising and visual presentation.

• Serve as a liaison between stores and promotional teams, focusing on high-priority items featured in key promotional periods.

• Partner with merchants and store teams to develop and deliver product knowledge and training materials.

• Provide weekly business updates, analyzing sales data and making recommendations to merchants, visual merchandising, and P&A teams, particularly ahead of seasonal floor flips.

What You'll Need

• ~4+ years of experience within an e-commerce or corporate retail organization preferred. Preferably experience in buying/retail merchandising or retail home furnishing planning.

• A strong interest in building a career in buying and/or supplier relationship management

• A passion or knowledge of industry trends, style and product design

• Ability to understand a brand vision, aesthetic, and customer base and how to bring that to life through the product assortment

• Ability to cut data and think critically about the business; ability to understand and interpret sales and performance trends and apply learning to the business

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and the ability to influence cross-functionally

• A personable and energetic communicator, eager to build relationships with new business partners - both internally and externally

• Ability to communicate and feel comfortable speaking directly with C-suite level suppliers from large companies

• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once; you don’t miss the details and can work autonomously and with partners to drive projects and tasks to completion

• Ability to “hit the ground running” – a self-starter capable of achieving specific target goals

In office requirements: This is a hybrid role based out of our Boston office (4 days/week in office, 1 day/week remote)

At this time, Wayfair will not sponsor applicants for this position for the following work visas: F1-OPT, STEM OPT EAD, H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, O-1, J-1, or TN.

Benefits & Perks - US

• Full health benefits available (Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA/FSA) on day one for eligible employees.

• No-cost access to 2nd.MD, a virtual expert medical consultation and navigation service.

• Global Traveler Health Insurance through GeoBlue.

• 24/7 access to mental, financial, physical and emotional wellbeing support, plus an enhanced offering of therapy and coaching.

• Automatic enrollment into Basic Life and Accidental Death & Disability Insurance.

• 401(k) matching with immediate vesting.

• Paid Parental Leave, Surrogacy & Adoption Reimbursement and Caregiver Services.

• Tuition Reimbursement.

• Wayfair Employee Discount.

• Gym/Fitness Discounts (Wellhub and varying regional memberships).

• Exclusive access to thousands of perks & discounts through BenefitHub.

• Yearly match up to $500 for personal donations made by employees to registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits.

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ElBqKaQYGR9j0NiQHQYCGbHkqKqN746Nk62pI32IyLU) .

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About Wayfair Inc.

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