Head - Merchandiser - Jewellery Business (10-25 yrs)

Inviting applications for the role of Merchandising Head

Responsibilities:

- To build, communicate and execute a merchant strategy that meets or exceeds financial goals, in support of the Senior Management overall strategy and business imperatives

- Leading, inspiring, and developing a team of direct reports including hiring, performance management, coaching, and feedback. Managing clients, vendor and support partner relationships to create a culture of collaboration, productivity, and accountability

- Understand the concept & ideation from the Management. Translate new ideas into a complete plan of action

- Perform International Market Research, Trend and Competitor analysis, and provide recommendations accordingly

- Suggest and present new styles/ designs/ collections with proper product mix as per required price point, quantity and quality standards suggested by management

- Discuss with Management & finalize the designs and products to be launched or optimized

- Participate in new project meetings & share the new work information with all the team members

- Guide & supervise the preparation of Brief Sheet for upcoming collections including USP of products. Objective is to provide the error free brief sheets

- Clarify all the doubts and issue of the concerns, related to the concept, designs/ aesthetics & manufacturing of the designs

- Actively involved in various product development stages right from conceptualization till final product goes live

- Keep eye at every stage of the project, working as a checkpoint for CAD, 3d, Photoshop Teams for best product output

- Participate in discussions regarding designs with CAD (should be able to visualize CAD files from production point of view), 3D, Photoshop, production & Live team

- Coordinate with Product development team and monitor new product launch timeline to ensure new merchandise is launched as per the decided time line

- Work on categorization on website in coordination with the reporting officer and optimize the existing categories as per data analysis

- Stay updated with the happenings in International Jewelry Market, keep watch on competitors' move and make counter strategies

- Conduct market research and analysis specific to the industry to identify emerging trends, competitive landscapes, and new business opportunities

Qualifications we seek in you:

- Graduation from NIFT (Preferred)

- Higher Diploma/Degree in Jewelry designing & manufacturing

- 8+ years of experience in Merchandising and Product development of Precious and Semi-Precious Colored Gemstone and Diamond Jewelry with an ecommerce company

- Strong and thorough knowledge of Precious and Semi-Precious Gemstones and Diamond Jewelry

- Must have design and development experience for USA market within the colored gemstone and diamond jewelry space. Knowledge of UK, Australia and Canada would be an added advantage

- Must have Knowledge of Coral and CAD designing

- Knowledge of Gemstone Sourcing, Production, Inventory planning and fulfillment would be an added advantage

- Experience of handling jewelry merchandising for Ecommerce platform

- Participated and represented his company in International Jewelry Shows

- Updated knowledge of fine jewelry trends in the US market

- Strong Excel skills

- Ability to take initiative and- work autonomously

- Strong verbal and written communication skills

- Strong project management, analytical skills, numerical skills

- Excellent market analysis skills

- Ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with key members to facilitate accomplishment of work