Mejuri is searching for a Director of Merchandise planning to join our team! The ideal candidate is a business and financially savvy customer-centric, data-driven, analytical self-starter who is motivated by the opportunity to collaborate internally and externally and executes with excellence for our fast growing brand! 

This opportunity is ideal for someone who has experience working in a fast paced, high growth retail environment with frequent store openings, is comfortable working cross-functionally across various levels, and is looking to provide high-value work within a small and agile team while seeing the impact of their work in real-time.

What you’ll do:

• Develop merchandise financial plans which optimize product category sales, financial, margin, and inventory goals.
• Lead the forecasting for carryover and new product launches and new store openings.
• Be the focal point for weekly sales reporting, developing tailored reporting for senior leadership and the merchandising, finance, supply chain, retail sales, and digital teams.
• Develop and deliver performance analysis across the business that measures achievement of sales, margin, and inventory plans.
• Manage the open to buy (OTB) process (part of the sales and operations planning process) that budgets for inventory purchases of both carryover and new products.  
• Support the buy review process (where new product investments are agreed) with forecasting and analysis including halo and cannibalization estimates, required inventory investment, and margin.
• Be the go-to for ad-hoc and diagnostic analysis of sales, gross margin, and inventory performance, communicating insights, corrective actions, and recommendations.
• Provide analytical support to the merchandising team as they develop product assortment, pricing, life cycle, and discontinuation plans.
• Help develop systems and tools to facilitate the merchandising planning function.
• Lead and develop a small team of demand and merchandise planners.

What you bring to the team:

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in a retail environment including time as a planner, buyer or retail business analyst.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, managing teams and working with executive leaders
• Experience in high growth retail environment with frequent new store openings
• Demonstrated retail experience and business acumen including forecasting, promotions, margin planning, selling and inventory productivity measures.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills including the ability to present complex material in an organized and compelling manner.
• Proven track record in assortment and inventory planning to help optimize retail stores for highest conversion rates
• Strategic thinker who recognizes opportunities and can recommend strategies by building business case and influence senior leaders to move to execution
• High level of conceptual creative ability. Strong product sense with proven experience in driving product assortments and partnering to lead investment strategies that drive business.
• Strong time management skills, attention to detail, problem solving, interpersonal and organizational skills – communication between functional groups is very critical.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, and data / business intelligence tools.

Along with our central mission and vision, we have guiding values that set the tone for where we’re heading and how we work together. These values are behaviors that form our shared beliefs and approach to how we wish to work together at Mejuri, regardless of role, level, and work location. Our 8 core values help drive our decision making when we are cross collaborating, redefining luxury, and creating a sense of commitment and inclusion to help shape our company culture.

Our values are:

FIND A WAY | We break down problems into manageable steps, explore creative solutions daily, learn from failure, and adapt quickly

RAISE THE BAR | We share constructive feedback openly, continuously improve personal and team performance, collaborate and challenge for better outcomes 

CUSTOMER OBSESSED | We actively listen to customer feedback, make decisions that impact customers positively, continuously refine product, service, or customer interactions 

EMPOWERED OWNERS | We proactively address cross team challenges, willingly tackle any task big or small, take initiative, and lead by example

JUST DO IT | We make informed decision quickly, encourage experimentation and learning, encourage thoughtful risk taking, embrace change, and stay adaptable

HUMILITY | We acknowledge team contributions before self, acknowledge and learn from mistakes, maintain an open and receptive mindset, and promote a respectful work environment 

CURIOSITY | We seek out new challenges daily, ask questions to understand deeply, reimagine and innovate to drive progress 

DRIVE RESULTS | set clear goals and prioritize tasks, focus on high impact activities daily, monitor progress through clear metrics, stay persistent and solution orientated