Senior Manager, Retail Merchandising

About the Job

To cope with our business expansion, we are inviting passionate retail merchandising professionals to join our dynamic team.

Responsible for supporting and taking part in setting product merchandising line plan and in ensuring pricing decisions, promotional strategies, and marketing activities etc. to drive financial objectives and sales targets and to optimal SKU productivity.  Besides, he or she will need to have a deep understanding of product positioning and derive a merchandising plan around it, while ensuring that the holistic product assortment and allocation is aligned with the brand's vision and strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the preparation of the seasonal merchandising plans for Hong Kong, Macau & overseas markets.
• Take part in formulating and executing assortment strategies.
• Provide a link between various stakeholders to establish the product vision and merchandising line plan for the Group's product for all markets, and to ensure collective alignment on product strategies (Marketing, VM, Retail, etc.).
• Own the merchandising calendar - directly responsible for managing team adherence to the critical deadlines of assigned area.
• Bring customer and market perspectives to the design and product development process. Thoroughly understands the different brand's target customer by tracking attitude and lifestyle trends.
• Ability to apply trend forecast and influence in the development of merchandising calendar.
• Ensure the successful implementation of merchandising plan by collaborating and influencing with relevant Operations teams and retail stores.
• Derive and drive sales and sell-through target by product category/ collections/ concepts as aligned in product strategy. 
• Align with Product Planning, monitor the rolling OTB and action on sales trends and budgets, inventory goals, and monitor forecast and replenishment regularly.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree.
• Minimum 8-10 years’ merchandising experience in multinational retail companies, with background in buying and/or planning in luxury retail/Jewellery/Apparel industry.
• Strong financial and analytical merchandising experience.
• APAC/International market exposure.
• An independent yet collaborative team player, agile, self-starter, motivated, customer focused and results oriented.
• An influential communicator with strong interpersonal, negotiation and storytelling skills to manage key stakeholders across global, brands, regional and local markets.
• Creative, strategic & critical thinking, strong in planning and implementation.
• Good command of Cantonese, Mandarin, and English.
• Willingness to travel.