Anthropologie Merchandise Manager - Daily Practice

Anthropologie • Philadelphia, PA

3d • Onsite

About The Position

The Anthropolgoie Merchandise Manager is first and foremost responsible for growing the sales volume and profit for the Daily Practice business. They should directly influence the buyers as they attempt to translate customer and competitive information along with fashion knowledge into action that drives category specific growth and increased profitability in support of company goals and objectives. They are accountable for the quality of work generated by the team and for bringing together the collaborative efforts of internal talent and external partnerships resulting in unique product satisfying the Anthropologie shopping experience. The Merchandise Manager will be expected to use their fashion intuition to direct the merchandising of their product categories

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial in spirit:Thinks and acts like an owner.
• The ability to recognize a new trend, item, look, and product early in its lifecycle.
• The ability to understand the magnitude of an opportunity and to translate that insight into an assortment and buy. Creative thinking is an asset in recognizing and managing in changing paradigms.
• An understanding for the Anthropologie customer and the shopping experience and that it is the final category edit for the merchandising assortment. The MM has to possess the ability to identify, gather and assimilate information specific to our customer.
• The ability to make the transition from strategic (conceptual and planning) to execution. Financial acumen and the ability to manipulate numbers are critical in achieving the tactical objectives.
• The ability to develop and communicate a vision of the business that translates into bottom line performance.
• The ability to delegate and direct the daily activities of the buyers and provide direction to the team.
• Personnel skills to lead, develop and coach people and the recognition that building a team is critical to the Company’s success.
• The ability to develop partnerships with other functional heads.
• The ability to collect, assimilate, analyze, package and present information to the Managing Director in a way that permits them to make an informed decision and take measurable action.
• 12+ years of buying and merchandising experience
• Located in Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities

• Strategizing the growth of both sales and profit for Daily Practice.
• Driving the bottoms up planning by prioritizing and allocating budgets across product categories.
• Providing category specific direction to the buyers and review the detail assortment plans with buyers.
• Insuring the correct driver distortions are made to ensure correct fashion positioning for the coming season.
• Bringing a customer and market perspective to the design process and to ensure that the final line recommendations are commercially viable.
• Coordinating and provides information to the production function to facilitate production planning needs.
• Developing and monitoring sourcing and production strategies for private label and market vendors.
• Identifying marketing and promotional opportunities for their categories of merchandise and contributes to the development of the marketing, packaging and promotional plans
• Collaborating with marketing team to create strong product narratives that resonate with our customer and drives traffic in store and on line.
• Determining the overall mix of market and private label product for each buying area to ensure that the final mix is ultimately customer oriented.
• Playing an active role in determining the in store placement of their product.
• Managing their categories of business in season.
• Synthesizing information they receive through regular business analysis, or specific analysis requested in response to trends or opportunities and to develop recommendations.
• Looking for opportunities to increase sales, improve margins, optimize inventories and decrease markdowns.
• Coaching and mentoring buyers to maximize the market resources, margins, and timeliness of product.
• Facilitating the process of developing new market vendors, watching the vendor life cycle and helping the buyers understand how to remove the vendors for the product mix before the lifecycle is complete.
• Coaching buyers on how to use the market to react to changes in business and how to freshen up an assortment to keep up with trend changes.
• Providing buyers with regular job performance feedback and annual performance evaluations with the goal of developing someone to the point they are promotable.

Benefits

• URBN offers comprehensive Perks & Benefits to employees. Availability and eligibility to specific benefits may be subject to your location and employment status. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, PTO, generous employee discounts, retirement savings and much more! For additional information visit www.urbn.com/work-with-us/benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees