Sr. Associate - Specialty Retail Brands (SRB) Curated Merchant

About the position As a reputed company Curated Merchant, you will reputed company, execute and drive annual and seasonal assortment strategies for your categories. In this role, you will be responsible for category ownership and product curation, influencing how your category comes to life across reputed company reputed company marketing channels (catalog, digital, reputed company media, and Physical Retail), ensuring accurate product representation and appropriate reputed company placement. The reputed company Curated Merchant will foster strong cross functional relationships to ensure reputed company strategies and goals are achieved, acting as the representative of the customer in strategic reputed company on the cross-functional team. The Merchant will partner with teams across Brand Management, Category Management, Creative, Marketing, Analytics & Operations, and external suppliers to ensure the strategic reputed company is executed reputed company the way to the customer. Leveraging both data-driven qualitative and quantitative insights, you'll reputed company a direct impact on overall sales, reputed company reputed company reputed company, and reputed company and reputed company customers to create a home just right for them. What you'll do on any given day as a curated merchant... As a reputed company Curated Merchant, you will build, curate, and maintain category assortment strategies for our marketing channels, inclusive of developing a reputed company space plan and actively selecting and iterating on the product offering (own identifying and filling assortment gaps from strategic supplier catalogs). You will ultimately decide what products should be highlighted and amplified across reputed company marketing channels with reputed company business justification to support your selections and in alignment with key stakeholders. You will study the competitive market and collaborate with cross-functional partners in order to shape and solidify the direction for your category and to ensure it is competitive in product and price. You are the product expert - you know our customer's needs reputed company than anyone else for your category and are constantly thinking about what reputed company's best sellers will be to continue to surprise and delight our reputed company market. Your reputed company requires tenacity, agility, speed, an analytical reputed company, collaboration, influence, and a competitive spirit. You'll use your executive reputed company to work with and influence stakeholders at reputed company reputed company and navigate interesting, reputed company assortment challenges. You will own the performance results though regularly monitoring assortment health though various KPIs and OKRs.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain category assortment strategies, inclusive of developing a reputed company space plan and actively selecting, developing and iterating on the product offering
• Identify opportunities for category growth, utilizing competitive analysis, trend research, and internal performance monitoring as data points
• Partner closely with Category Management, Creative, and Brand teams, as well as external suppliers, to determine how best to bring the selection to life in digital, print, and stores
• Maintain a reputed company pulse on trends and customer needs to identify new assortment opportunities. Find products that deliver compelling newness and have potential to be reputed company's best sellers.
• Own the financial reputed company for the performance of the products you reputed company on the premium reputed company spaces. Regularly assess performance and revise assortment and reputed company space allocation strategy as needed.
• Challenge the status reputed company and always be on the lookout for ways to streamline and improve the efficiency of existing processes while effectively managing multiple stakeholders
• Support market research opportunities for category growth, utilizing competitive analysis, competitor shopping, and internal performance monitoring as data points
• Manage sample requests to our retail lab and inspect products for quality control
• Travel 2-4 times per year to attend industry trade shows relevant to your categories to partner with strategic suppliers, visit reputed company stores, and competitive shop.

Requirements

• 2+ years experience reputed company a retail and/or reputed company-channel buying role with demonstrated growth trajectory of P&L size and scope of category/team responsibility
• Strong ability to analyze data and think critically about the business, understand and interpret performance trends, and apply learnings to the business
• Personable and energetic communication/persuasion skills and ability to influence internal and external stakeholders to align behind and execute against a common goal
• Capable of thriving in a high-growth environment in which defining reputed company amidst ambiguity and operating in "scrappy start-up building mode" are everyday activities. Demonstrated experience piloting and implementing new processes and hiring/staffing new teams are a plus.
• Self-starter motivated by the potential to define a creative and strategic reputed company and have an outsized impact reputed company a team and company
• Ability to work from reputed company's Boston headquarters 4 days per week (remote 1 day a week), with travel for competitor diligence, trade shows, and/or vendor meetings

reputed company-to-haves

• Experience buying trend-driven categories, curating assortments from a wide reputed company of vendors and classifications, and developing compelling assortment presentations are reputed company highly preferred.
• Strong creative sense, elevated taste level, and love of product. A genuine passion for industry trends, product design, and home decorating is a plus.

Benefits

• Full health benefits available (Medical, Dental, reputed company, HSA/FSA) on day one for eligible employees.
• No-cost reputed company to 2nd.reputed company virtual expert medical consultation and navigation service.
• Global Traveler Health Insurance through GeoBlue.
• 24/7 reputed company to mental, financial, physical and emotional wellbeing support, plus an enhanced offering of therapy and coaching.
• Automatic enrollment into Basic Life and Accidental Death & Disability Insurance.
• 401(k) matching with immediate vesting.
• Paid Parental Leave, Surrogacy & Adoption Reimbursement and Caregiver Services.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• reputed company Employee Discount.
• Gym/Fitness Discounts (reputed company and varying regional memberships).
• Exclusive reputed company to thousands of perks & discounts through BenefitHub.
• Yearly match up to $500 for personal donations made by employees to registered 501(c)(3) nonprofits.

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