Merchandising Manager, Rings Category - Denver
Merchandising Manager, Rings Category
Brilliant Earth is one of the fastest growing ecommerce jewelers in the world, and the leader in ethical origin fine jewelry. Founded in 2005, we have been featured in Newsweek, Glamour, the Today Show, and Martha Stewart among many other media outlets. We are a team of dedicated individuals with a common goal of creating a more sustainable, transparent, and compassionate jewelry industry.
We are searching for bright and passionate people who are excited to make an impact from day one and grow with the company to take on greater responsibility over time. We are collaborative, hard-working team players that welcome challenges and rise to any occasion. Our open workspace in the heart of Cherry Creek encourages conversation and collaboration. From cross-departmental meetings to frequent happy hours, Brilliant Earth team members bring a top-notch attitude and a willingness to help each other grow.
Everyone at Brilliant Earth has a voice – we want to hear yours! If you are interested in growing with Brilliant Earth, send us a resume and cover letter letting us know why you are interested in joining our mission and our team. Please include a sentence about your favorite shape of diamond.
Position Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Merchandising Manager for our Rings category with a passion for product, understanding of market trends, and proven track record of driving business performance. The Merchandising Manager owns revenue and gross margin for the category and is responsible for developing and executing strategic plans to achieve those objectives. Ideal candidates will have experience in category management, cross-functional collaboration, creative problem solving, and process creation, possess extensive analytical and reporting skills, and thrive in a fast-paced dynamic start-up environment. As a team member, you will collaborate with multiple departments that are dedicated to cultivating a joyful and luxurious consumer brand, with an emphasis on an exceptional customer experience.
Key Responsibilities include:
- Develop category plan, outlining strategic initiatives and goals by sub-category, attribute and product to achieve category financial objectives.
- Evaluate category performance including sales growth, productivity, margin, sell-through and other key metrics.
- Identify opportunities to influence category performance, including product assortment, pricing, promotions, marketing, site merchandising, showroom merchandising, and inventory.
- Manage product assortment and evaluate product performance to understand drivers, trends and opportunities. Evaluate competition in terms of product offering, pricing, distribution and in-store/online presentation.
- Collaborate with product development and design team to ensure Brilliant Earth offers a compelling assortment of products that meets customer needs, demonstrates design leadership and optimizes productivity.
- Collaborate with sourcing team to develop vendor relationships, source new products, identify cost reduction opportunities, and negotiate pricing.
- Responsible for achieving gross margin goals and optimizing margin through pricing and promotions.
- Establish promotional calendar in conjunction with other category managers to drive category performance or highlight specific products.
- Collaborate with ecommerce and marketing teams to achieve merchandising goals through product placement and recommendations.
- Partner with Inventory Planning team to set inventory targets and optimize inventory levels.
- Support new showroom launches and partner with showroom team to best represent product in showrooms.
Specific Qualifications
- BA degree or equivalent
- 5+ years of merchandising experience in a consumer-based retail environment. Experience in fine jewelry and/or ecommerce preferred
- Exposure to demand forecasting, retail merchandise planning, inventory management best practices and inventory systems
- Experience working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment requiring new process creation, process improvement, task prioritization, and strong project management
- Proven track record of driving category performance
- Strong strategic thinking and analytical abilities
- Passion for data driven decision making
- Must have strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Extremely detail oriented
- Strong ability to work individually and as a team player to execute projects
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Highly organized with focus on execution, problem solving, and improving processes
- Ability to think critically and adapt quickly in a flexible environment
- Entrepreneurial spirit/self-starter
- Interest in socially and environmentally responsible organizations and products
Brilliant Earth offers a competitive benefits package. As a full-time Brilliant Earth employee, you can choose to enroll in medical, dental and vision insurance plans, 401(k) plan, and commuter benefits. We offer maternity and paternity leave, an open PTO policy, and an employee discount on our products.
Brilliant Earth is committed to the principles of Equal Employment. We are committed to complying with all Federal, State and local laws providing Equal Employment Opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations. It is our intent to maintain a work environment and hiring process which is free of harassment or discrimination because of sex, race, religion, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, military service, veteran status, or any other status protected by Federal, State or local laws