Dickies: Senior Merchandiser
Dickies
- Fort Worth, TX
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Through in-depth market knowledge, identify seasonal trends, assortment opportunities and merchandising strategies for areas of responsibility.
- Collect relevant market and consumer insights for the line development to inform and influence the product creation process-Identification of market trends, pre-sell results and sell-through analysis.
- Provide qualitative information around trends, colors, materials, graphics, price/value, performance, innovation needs.
- Build collaborative relationships with internal and external associates and co-workers. Must be able to interface professionally and effectively in group settings. Key partners include Merchandising, Design, Product Development, Sourcing, Planning, Marketing and Sales Teams.
- Partner with sales to ensure key strategic account objectives are achieved forgiven category.
- Work with Director of Merchandising to achieve business targets related to revenue growth, profitability, pricing, margin, and style/SKU productivity.
- Exhibit objectivity and openness to others' views; Give and welcome feedback; Contribute to building a positive team spirit; Put success of team above own interests; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; Support everyone's efforts to succeed.
- Passionate about leading, managing and influencing teams while empowering their decision-making, trainings and mentoring for the advancement of their capabilities. You will manage a team of 1-2employees.
- 5+ years of apparel product management, product line merchandising experience with 3 years of apparel experience or related transferable skills
- Proven experience developing and leading high-performance team
- Previous experience building/analyzing detailed item/location level retail data- synthesizing into actionable business insights
- Multi-Channel and Multi Branded experience are preferred.
- Extensive experience in Multi Calendar Development.
- Strong and experienced in leadership.
- Strong Presentation skills and ability to work well within a team-based situation.
- Strong Reasoning Ability, Self-starter, can work independently with minimal supervision.
- A positive team player that is comfortable with leading cross-functional team members to a successful outcome.
- Ability to utilize retail math skills and analyze sales numbers, profit margins, costing and pricing to develop insights/recommendations based on the analysis.
- Excellence in all MS Office suite programs; PowerPoint, Word, and Excel and has experience with product line management systems.
- Internal systems at Dickies and across VF
- Cross-functional partnerships
- Dickies Go To Market Strategy