Senior Fashion Merchandiser
Description
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Bonus based on performance
- Company parties
- Competitive salary
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Relocation bonus
Senior Fashion Merchandiser
Relocation to NYC Required | Recruiting in Columbus / New Albany, Ohio
- Own seasonal merchandising strategies and assortment plans across assigned categories.
- Analyze sales, inventory, customer behavior, competitive activity, and market trends to identify opportunities.
- Partner closely with Design to translate emerging trends into commercial product.
- Build balanced assortments across silhouette, color, print, fabrication, price point, and fashion level.
- Identify winning products quickly and recommend opportunities for reorders, extensions, and newness.
- Review weekly selling and react to performance with clear, actionable recommendations.
- Conduct competitive shopping and maintain a strong understanding of the fashion marketplace.
- Help establish pricing architecture and product positioning.
- Partner with Production and Sourcing teams to balance fashion, margin, cost, and delivery.
- Present assortment strategies, seasonal direction, and business opportunities to senior leadership.
- Mentor and help develop junior members of the merchandising team.
- Stay deeply connected to the customer and continuously identify what she wants next.
- Significant merchandising experience within fashion apparel or specialty retail.
- Senior-level merchandising experience with responsibility for meaningful product categories or businesses.
- Experience at Hollister / Abercrombie & Fitch corporate headquarters or another major specialty fashion retailer is strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of assortment architecture, trend identification, pricing, sales analysis, inventory, and product lifecycle management.
- Commercial fashion instinct — you know the difference between an interesting trend and a product customers will actually buy.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn selling data into product decisions.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to operate quickly and decisively in a highly entrepreneurial environment.
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills across Design, Production, Sourcing, and Sales.
- Passion for fashion, product, and the customer.
Location: New York, NY – Garment District
Relocation: Required