Manager Merchandise

Phoenix Retail Merchandise Manager

PHOENIX Retail, LLC operates the Express and Bonobos brands worldwide. Express is a multichannel apparel brand dedicated to modern, confident and effortless style. Bonobos is a menswear brand known for exceptional fit and innovative retail. Customers can experience these brands in over 400 stores and online.

Columbus Corporate Headquarters

Position Overview

The Merchandise Manager is responsible for multiple categories and strategic clarity in executing lifestyle merchandising. Divisional accountability for sales and profit. One eye view of merchandise assortment. Synthesizes and analyzes customer and competitive information that feeds the brand objectives and financial targets.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring merchandising strategy is cohesive with all cross-functional strategies
• Accountable for defined areas of responsibility as well as lifestyle results
• Maximize the potential of both stores and eCommerce business
• Effectively sell ideas, gain trust, and influence the Executive leadership team and the cross-functional team
• Intimate knowledge of customer profile and requirements
• Identify trends in the marketplace, adapt them to the brand, and scale them appropriately
• Consistently drive innovation and new ideas on product
• Ensure the merchandising vision is executed to fruition
• Develops, communicates and tracks the team against the strategic view of the line
• Build and execute both short term and long term product and business strategies that grow the business
• Understand the customer and what they want
• Bring customer and market perspective to the Design and Product development process
• Utilize understanding of the competitive landscape to identify opportunities and risks
• Actively searches the market for new 3rd party resources that will augment the Brand's assortment
• Grow talent at all levels of merchandising
• Empower and inspire the merchant team and cross-functional team through strong leadership
• Manage associates in ways that create a positive, agile, collaborative and flexible work environment

Required Experience & Qualifications

Critical Skills & Attributes

Closing

An equal opportunity employer, PHOENIX does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or any other terms and conditions of employment hiring on the basis of any federal, state, or locally protected characteristic. PHOENIX only hires individuals authorized for employment in the United States. PHOENIX is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to search and apply for a job position due to a disability, please call 1-800-964-9793 and say 'Associate Relations' or send an e-mail to AssociateRelations@Express.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

Notification to Agencies : Please note that PHOENIX does not accept unsolicited resumes or calls from third-party recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Master Service Agreement and approval from HR to submit resumes for a specific requisition, PHOENIX will not consider or approve payment to any third-parties for hires made.