Merchandising Manager (fixed-term for maternity cover)

LVMH; Lombardia; Hybride; EUR 41 000 - 50 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

LVMH is seeking a Merchandising Manager (fixed-term maternity cover) to act as the right hand to the Merchandising Director. You will drive analytics, connect Design, Retail, Wholesale and Ecommerce, and help shape the merchandising strategy for luxury women RTW.

You will lead collection briefs, product range development, price objectives, and lifecycle management, collaborating with Design, Product Development, Production and Visual Merchandising teams.

Qualifications

• University degree in Economics/Marketing with 3–5 years merchandising experience.
• Strong knowledge of Women RTW and luxury market trends.
• Analytical mindset and proactive attitude.

Responsabilités

• Define master order worldwide and merchandising guidelines.
• Open-to-buy collaboration with Finance and Retail.
• Review orders with buyers to ensure brand identity.
• Present collections to Retail, E.Commerce and Wholesale teams focusing on core products.
• Support wholesale during selling campaigns and monitor sell-out.

Connaissances

Analytical

Team player

Problem solving

Proactive

English fluent

Formation

Economics/Marketing degree

Outils

Excel

PowerPoint

Description du poste

Merchandising Manager (fixed-term for maternity cover)

Being the right hand for the Merchandising Director, the Merchandising Manager brings the analytical point of view to structure the merchandising strategy, and acts as a connection and facilitator across the different departments: Design, Retail, Wholesale and Ecommerce, to achieve business objectives.

Job responsabilities

Retail, Wholesale & E.Commerce

• Define Master Order worldwide, merchandising selection and buying guidelines.
• Open to buy in collaboration with Finance and Retail
• Reviewing orders with buyer in order to guarantee Brand Identity and coherence
• Collection presentation to the Retail, E.Commerce and Wholesale Teams, with focus on Core Products
• Support wholesale during the selling campaign
• Monitoring and analyze sell out retail sales
• Organize weekly meeting with Retail and E.Commerce to monitor sales and activities
• Organize monthly meeting with wholesales monitoring sales and activities
• Cooperation with Visual Merchandising for shop windows and internal display on Retail, Wholesale and other activations

Collection

• Preparation of the Collection Briefing for Design Team, detecting and evaluating consumer insight
• Development of the commercial product range in collaboration with Design Team and Product Development Team, including pre-order fabrics in collaboration with the Production Team
• Managing the process of defining price objectives for the collections
• Managing product life circle: mark downs/carry over and cleans ups
• Development of product manuals on Collection technical features for the training document to Retail Wholesale and E.Commerce
• Monitoring both on a qualitative and on a quantitative levels competitors and fashion trends on pricing, products, materials, shapes, styles
• Managing of any unplanned Special project
• Guarantee commercial forecast activities related to collections’ trends (sell out forecast to allow Production start over)
• Interaction with Retail, E.Commerce, wholesale, Designer, product development, production, Visual merchandising, Marketing office

Profile

Profile

• University degree in Economics/ Marketing, with at least 3-5 year old experience in Merchandising (preferably Retail)
• Strong knowledge of Woman RTW, and deep understanding of Luxury market, trends and fashion
• Proactive and positive attitude
• Problem solving ability
• Excellent analytics
• Working for priorities and for objectives
• Team player
• Openness to diversity

Language Competences

• Languages: English fluent, French is a plus
• Pro user for XLS and PPT

Additional information

The annual gross salary (RAL) for this role starts from €45,000 and will be determined based on the experience and qualifications of the selected candidate.