Director
CFGI
Leadfull-timeCalifornia · 🇺🇸 United States
Posted: 8 hours agoSource: jobs.lever.co
Director, Merchandising – Buying
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Glendale • California, Florida • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $185,500 - $248,800 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Develop the quarterly product brief, strategy, line architecture, assortment curation, and regional product creation
- Leverage guest and demographic data to evaluate assortments and respond to in-season performance
- Drive Regional Excellence by spearheading the creation of quarterly product briefs and assortment plans
- Shape the merchandising strategy and assortment curation for North America
- Lead the team in developing regional product creation strategies and activations with vendors
- Foster partnerships with site and regional commercial and marketing teams
- Analyze regional business performance and develop strategies and growth objectives
- Take ownership of the divisional profit and loss (P&L)
Requirements
- 15+ years’ experience in product merchandising, specialty retail and product assortment strategy at leadership level
- Bachelor's Degree required
- Experience in product development required
- Experience in curating a product line that is both locally relevant and globally leveraged
- Experience in merchandising for vertical specialty retail environment
- Experience working with multiple commercial and marketing partners to bring product assortments to market
- Experience managing direct reports
- Experience working, and thriving, in a highly matrixed company structure
Benefits
- A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
- Full range of medical benefits
- Financial benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product merchandisingproduct assortment strategyproduct developmentassortment curationregional product creationbusiness performance analysisprofit and loss (P&L) management
Soft skills
leadershipteam managementpartnership buildingstrategic thinkingcommunication
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree
