Senior Site Merchandising Assistant

Bloomingdale's; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloomingdale's seeks a Senior Assistant Merchandise Manager to enhance our online merchandising strategies. This pivotal role involves managing a team member and optimizing website navigation and content. Candidates should bring excellent leadership skills, creativity, and a strong foundation in analytics to drive online performance.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years direct experience in merchandising or related.
• Excellent interpersonal and facilitation skills.
• Ability to think creatively and strategically.

Responsibilities

• Optimize website merchandising, navigation, and content execution.
• Use analytics to inform merchandising strategies.
• Manage a direct report and provide clear goals.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Creativity

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

MS Office

Job description

About:

Bloomingdale's makes fashion personal and fun, aspirational yet approachable. Our mission is to guide and inspire our customers to make style a source of creative energy in their lives. We will always strive to make Bloomingdale's like no other store in the world. Everyone plays a critical role to bring our mission to life. Regardless of position, we believe all colleagues have a voice and access to share their thoughts with every level of leadership. Our colleagues are passionate, driven, entrepreneurial and collaborative. We welcome and embrace diversity of background, thought and opinion while having a lot of fun along the way.

Job Overview:

The Senior Assistant Merchandise Manager (SAMM) is a critical role on the Bloomingdale's Site Merchandising & Optimization team, responsible for executing merchant strategies online, while managing a direct report. The Senior Assistant Merchandise Manage will help create and optimize strategies for website merchandising, navigation and content execution to increase conversion and support the sales plans.

Essential Functions:

• Maintain integrity of on-site navigation and attribution of products within your family of business
• Use Core-metrics analytics platform to monitor demand, traffic, engagement and conversion across key categories and brands to inform and optimize merchandising strategies
• Collaborate with buying and planning partners to fully understand and support key business priorities
• Maintain the quality of search results and cross-sells and upsells for your family of business and core brands
• Set-up and test website promotions to ensure proper offer functionality pre and post-launch
• Provide data-driven recommendations to improve online messaging & merchandising execution
• Assist in campaign planning for on-site content for your family of business
• Support digital marketing execution by implementing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) recommendations and assisting Search and Affiliate teams with linking support
• Manage a director report (Merchandise Coordinator) by regularly articulating clear goals and expectations

Qualifications and Competencies:

• We encourage candidates with either a bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a related field to apply
• 3-5 years direct experience
• Practices open and continuous communication, values keeping others informed, effectively presenting information in a clear, concise manner
• Excellent leadership, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work across functional lines and at many levels
• Ability to think creatively, strategically and technically
• Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and Company needs
• Knowledge of MS Office computer programs are required

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