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$250,000.00/yr - $325,000.00/yr Direct message the job poster from Brick Executive Search BRICK EXECUTIVE SEARCH has been exclusively retained to recruit for a Chief Merchandising Officer for a high growth fashion retailer. Overview: The CMO is responsible for leading product and brand strategy to drive growth across apparel, footwear, and accessories. This role involves developing trend-driven, market-ready product assortments that align with brand identity. The CMO will manage a team, collaborate cross-functionally with design, planning, retail operations, and marketing, and ensure cohesive execution of business strategies. They will also oversee financial plans and sales forecasts, analyze market trends, and act as a brand ambassador to ensure the brand’s success and alignment with customer expectations. The CMO will report directly to the partners of the business. Essential Functions: Category Strategy: Develop and implement a comprehensive merchandising strategy that drives sales, profitability, and market share growth. Align merchandising initiatives with the overall business goals and brand vision, curating a diverse and compelling product assortment that reflects current trends and customer preferences. Lead merchandising teams in identifying current and future trends along with potential white space opportunities to create a unique offering for the consumer. Lead development of global line plan, assortment mix, and strategy for the category. Partner with Design, PDC, Sales/Planning, Operations, and other Merchandising VPs to ensure strategies are clearly communicated throughout the organization. Influence others and gain alignment on strategies to drive business, style, and innovation forward. Lead business and creative decisions for final assortment and act as the key liaison with cross-functional partners on assortment, visual, and pricing strategies. Work closely with design and planning teams to ensure cohesive product development and inventory management. Optimize merchandise assortment across store and e-commerce channels, supporting key growth initiatives and capabilities that evolve or grow the business within the channel, across channels, and/or across the brand. Brand Strategy: Lead product strategy development including driving milestone meetings and executing product development calendar. Develop a balanced product assortment with a strong price-value relationship to achieve consistency within all business classifications. Conduct market research and analysis to identify emerging trends, opportunities, and competitive threats. Utilize data-driven insights and establish KPIs to inform merchandising decisions and strategies. Analyze sales data and customer feedback to continuously improve the product offering and enhance the customer experience. Drive achievement of margin, sales goals based on financial plans for all channels. Develop Long Range Plans with cross-functional teams and Leadership Team. Maintain awareness of competition relative to product value relationship and customer profitability within the category. Lead the team to analyze sales, competitive and market trends, and customer behavior to establish or update overall product assortment strategies. Clearly communicate business, margin, markdown, and inventory opportunities to cross-functional teams and leadership. Qualifications: 10+ years of successful experience in retail buying or merchandising with at least 5+ years in a leadership role within an omnichannel retail environment. Proven experience leading the product development process within a startup or emerging brand. Successful apparel merchandising experience, in multiple channels of distribution. Strong ability to build business strategies and implement shorter-term tactical plans that are cost-effective, efficient, and realistic. Proven successful leadership developing high-performing talent and teams. Demonstrated ability to problem-solve, develop creative solutions, and influence and motivate diverse audiences. Comprehensive understanding of the retail industry, macro and micro market, product, and customer trends. Successful experience with large-scale apparel brands managing > $100M. Strong interpersonal skills; excellent written and verbal communication including presentation skills. Experience working with a wholesale channel. Must be comfortable with travel ~20%. Seniority level
Executive Employment type
Full-time Job function
Administrative, Business Development, and Purchasing Industries
Retail Apparel and Fashion Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Brick Executive Search by 2x. Inferred from the description for this job
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This range is provided by Brick Executive Search. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay range
$250,000.00/yr - $325,000.00/yr Direct message the job poster from Brick Executive Search BRICK EXECUTIVE SEARCH has been exclusively retained to recruit for a Chief Merchandising Officer for a high growth fashion retailer. Overview: The CMO is responsible for leading product and brand strategy to drive growth across apparel, footwear, and accessories. This role involves developing trend-driven, market-ready product assortments that align with brand identity. The CMO will manage a team, collaborate cross-functionally with design, planning, retail operations, and marketing, and ensure cohesive execution of business strategies. They will also oversee financial plans and sales forecasts, analyze market trends, and act as a brand ambassador to ensure the brand’s success and alignment with customer expectations. The CMO will report directly to the partners of the business. Essential Functions: Category Strategy: Develop and implement a comprehensive merchandising strategy that drives sales, profitability, and market share growth. Align merchandising initiatives with the overall business goals and brand vision, curating a diverse and compelling product assortment that reflects current trends and customer preferences. Lead merchandising teams in identifying current and future trends along with potential white space opportunities to create a unique offering for the consumer. Lead development of global line plan, assortment mix, and strategy for the category. Partner with Design, PDC, Sales/Planning, Operations, and other Merchandising VPs to ensure strategies are clearly communicated throughout the organization. Influence others and gain alignment on strategies to drive business, style, and innovation forward. Lead business and creative decisions for final assortment and act as the key liaison with cross-functional partners on assortment, visual, and pricing strategies. Work closely with design and planning teams to ensure cohesive product development and inventory management. Optimize merchandise assortment across store and e-commerce channels, supporting key growth initiatives and capabilities that evolve or grow the business within the channel, across channels, and/or across the brand. Brand Strategy: Lead product strategy development including driving milestone meetings and executing product development calendar. Develop a balanced product assortment with a strong price-value relationship to achieve consistency within all business classifications. Conduct market research and analysis to identify emerging trends, opportunities, and competitive threats. Utilize data-driven insights and establish KPIs to inform merchandising decisions and strategies. Analyze sales data and customer feedback to continuously improve the product offering and enhance the customer experience. Drive achievement of margin, sales goals based on financial plans for all channels. Develop Long Range Plans with cross-functional teams and Leadership Team. Maintain awareness of competition relative to product value relationship and customer profitability within the category. Lead the team to analyze sales, competitive and market trends, and customer behavior to establish or update overall product assortment strategies. Clearly communicate business, margin, markdown, and inventory opportunities to cross-functional teams and leadership. Qualifications: 10+ years of successful experience in retail buying or merchandising with at least 5+ years in a leadership role within an omnichannel retail environment. Proven experience leading the product development process within a startup or emerging brand. Successful apparel merchandising experience, in multiple channels of distribution. Strong ability to build business strategies and implement shorter-term tactical plans that are cost-effective, efficient, and realistic. Proven successful leadership developing high-performing talent and teams. Demonstrated ability to problem-solve, develop creative solutions, and influence and motivate diverse audiences. Comprehensive understanding of the retail industry, macro and micro market, product, and customer trends. Successful experience with large-scale apparel brands managing > $100M. Strong interpersonal skills; excellent written and verbal communication including presentation skills. Experience working with a wholesale channel. Must be comfortable with travel ~20%. Seniority level
Executive Employment type
Full-time Job function
Administrative, Business Development, and Purchasing Industries
Retail Apparel and Fashion Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Brick Executive Search by 2x. Inferred from the description for this job
Medical insurance Vision insurance 401(k) Get notified about new Head of Retail jobs in
Greater Chicago Area .
#J-18808-Ljbffr