by Job Title: Director of Merchandising
Company: Ashley Furniture
Location: Tampa, Florida
Description: The Director of Merchandising is accountable for maximizing their category sales and profitability in alignment with the company strategies and brand. This involves developing and executing a robust merchandising strategy, driving product development with the in-house design team, leading the merchandising team to high performance, devising compelling marketing and promotions programs, and maintaining a focus on continuous learning and improvement.
This person will review and analyze consumer demographic and psychographic characteristics, fashion trends, retail landscape and other relevant data to stylistically interpret, financially plan for and react to emerging market trends and conditions. They will also determine appropriate competitive strategies to drive category product development, good/better/best quality merchandise assortment and quantity, purchase, pricing, margin, promotion and clearance to complement the other product categories and maximize return of advertising investment.
Qualifications:
- 10 years’ experience in purchasing, buying, merchandising, brand management, marketing or related field, preferably in home case goods in multiple, global locations, Required
- Supervisory/Management experience
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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