Merchandise Manager

Apply Directly: https://bit.ly/MerchMgrLeathers 

Make An Impact:

​Fossil has a fantastic new career opportunity for an experienced Merchandise Manager where you can put your stamp on Fossil’s global footprint. We are looking for a product-obsessed Merchandise Manager for our Fossil brand leathers for retail stores and omnichannel.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ability to choose, distort, and create stories around key product ideas

• Can quickly analyze and understand product sales trends, drill down to identify wins and opportunities, and can make adjustments to maximize sales

• Ability to lead and direct visual creative teams to create impactful stories that drive traffic and volume

• Create, manage, and lead teams to drive merchandising themes and to drive store sales

• Find and build bestsellers to maximize sales vs plan

• Leverage merchandise assortments to make dominant statements in seasonally relevant ways, and to drive traffic

• Drive customers’ perceptions of a great shopping experience relative to key competitors

• Know the key retail levers, the key store KPI’s, and how to react to increase performance

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s degree in Fashion Merchandising or relevant studies

• 7+ years of experience as a Merchant or Buyer

• Excellent presentation skills and presence

• Passionate and familiar with fashion and trends

• Product merchandising experience required

• Superb influencing skills

• Strong financial acumen

• Aggressive and risk-taker

• Proven success in establishing strong collaborative work relationships 

• Management/Leadership experience highly preferred