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Brand Merchandising Associate Handbags & SLG Collection
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Company Description
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Position Overview
The Associate Merchandiser is responsible for day-to-day merchandise activities to support the Brand Merchandising Lead. They are responsible for weekly meeting documentation, system and report creation, and line opening materials/tracking. Merchant teams play a key role in all major events throughout the process (i.e. design final, adoption, line opening, pricing).
In Office: Required 3x a week.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Research:
- Identify growth opportunities and protect needs of business for product category.
- Comprehensive knowledge and adherence to product category, calendar milestones, line development and status.
- Weekly analysis and knowledge of global business performance; partnering with regional teams to understand needs of regional businesses.
- Knowledge of competition and trends, identifying new opportunities appropriate for brand.
Financial:
- Provide support and direction for the merchandising process.
- Partner with the planning team on Global Line Plans – creating super season category strategies inclusive of style and SKU plans with a focus on delivery flow – understanding sales history, top volume drivers, fashion and price tier matrices and new market opportunities.
- Assist manager in driving Assortment Plan to Win – focus on core, seasonal core, and seasonal product flow and balance.
- Prepare analysis on sales trend and sell through, volume drivers, and SKU productivity to influence business driving recommendations.
- Manage OK to BUY process.
- Partner with Merchandising Ops Associate to ensure accurate & timely data entry & system updates for all merchandising item definition and line changes; ensuring all cross-functional teams are in alignment.
- Assist with ad hoc projects and work with the team as requests arise.
Communication:
- Partner with cross-functional team members to drive business objectives.
- Design: work closely together on the line creation – driving a balance with fashion and price tier while merging business and brand intentions and maintaining the integrity of the GLP.
- Product Management: partner to meet category margin targets, understanding all cost components and cost saving challenges.
- Regions + Channels: partner on upfront business needs to incorporate into line creation and provide daily support on product needs through both the development and in-store life cycle.
- Communicate & distribute all critical merchandising information to key functional areas on a timely basis.
- Maintain and follow through on daily interaction with Design and Product Management to ensure accurate on-order, delivery flow, change control & calendar adherence for product category.
- Attend line status meetings, driving product category and managing changes.
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
- Strong analytical and retail math skills.
- Strong communication, interpersonal & teamwork skills.
- Highly organized, detail oriented, and accurate.
- Resourceful, efficient, and able to take initiative.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Priority and time management.
- Merchandising experience in Accessories and Footwear preferred.
- Computer Skills: Proficiency in MS Office applications, Retail Math, and systems knowledge (GFE+, Airtable).
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