Merchandising Lead

As a Retail Merchandise Lead for the USA CA PR Sales Market in the Merchandising function you drive execution of the commercial agenda and merchandising strategy together with Merchandise Managers to exceed business targets. The Lead will have a deep interest in the customer and consumer and stock management. The person in the role will have retail knowledge and an interest in product strong analytical abilities commercial skills and will work to constantly improve customer shopping experience and offer in market.

This hybrid role reports into the Merchandise Manager for your respective concept and is based out of New York NY.

A Day in the Life

Working at H&M means no two days are ever the same but a typical day will include the following responsibilities*

Implement & execute regional merchandising strategy and commercial priorities:

• Execute regional assortment direction in close alignment to Merchandising Manager
• Optimize local selling peaks driven by calendar and customer shopping behavior
• Be responsible for all information distributed to sales and store teams
• Know your market competitive landscape and customer profile
• Be up to date with regional assortment and demand & inventory strategies

Drive in and post season inventory management:

• Pick full price discount and sale activities in line with Merchandise Manager
• Execute stock management Sale and EOP in line with the regional strategy
• Execute regional guidelines related to assortment and allocation
• Followup on store stock and resolve issues together with inventory optimization team
• Execute regional strategy for commercial impact on key product categories (including different store segments) and act based on in season performance

Follow up and inform about progress:

• Provide commercial team with constant & structured sales followup for the channel
• Review your commercial plan periodically and suggest improvements for next year
• Follow up commercial initiatives in store (travel two days a week) to confirm or adjust actions needed to meet the regional merchandising strategy
• Followup commercial results and KPIs and benchmark between areas sales markets and other regions

Qualifications :

Who You Are:

• University degree preferably in Business Economics Finance or similar
• 13 years of experience within merchandising or a sales function
• Strong retail knowledge
• Knowledge in operational best practices and routines for physical store
• Salesdriven and have a strong commercial awareness and salesmanship
• Strong in driving commercial product excellence 
• Understanding of products stock and product lifecycle management
• Good skills in MS Office especially in Excel and PowerPoint
• Flexibility and adaptable to change a strategic mindset
• Oral and written proficiency in English
• Inclusive positive open to feedback willing to multitask and learn on the job

Additional Information :

Why Youll Love Working at H&M

• We value diverse backgrounds including but not limited to race ethnicity gender age religion sexual orientation and disability
• We pride ourselves on being a valuesdriven organization guided by our 7 unique values that have been part of our success story for over 75 years
• Youll have access to our Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs) to find community and networking opportunities among colleagues

• We are an inclusive company where youre encouraged to be yourself at work
• You will have access to a large global talent community where career growth and aspirations have no limits
• We believe in supporting your overall wellbeing and offer comprehensive benefits inclusive of health insurance wellness and family support programs company match  401k paid leave programs and paid time off including a community day to serve your local community
• Youll be able to express your personal style with our employee discount at H&M & Other Stories and COS

Compensation: salary range is $98957$111326 annually**

*This job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job and is not allinclusive. There may be additional duties and responsibilities assigned for this job at the companys discretion.

**H&M in good faith has assessed this posted range of compensation as the accurate range for this role and location at the time of this posting. H&M may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range depending on candidate qualifications. This range may be modified in the future.

EEOC Code: PRO

Job Status: Salary Exempt

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Fulltime