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Kohl's Director, Division Merchandising Manager - Women's Footwear (Relocation Assistance Provided) in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin
About the Role
As Director, Division Merchandising Manager of Women’s Footwear you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the merchandising strategy to ensure we offer the most compelling and on-trend footwear assortment across our omni-channel platform. This role is critical in shaping our product assortment, maximizing sales, and enhancing customer satisfaction. You will create and drive a customer-obsessed product merchandising vision and business strategy to meet Category goals. You will be responsible for leading a merchandising team and cross-functional category team for end-to-end execution of product vision for National and Proprietary Brands. As a key partner to Design, you will also own and drive the intersection of product innovation and commercialization.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
Incorporate customer insights, competition and category trends to set overarching category assortment vision into business strategy, and respond to in-season business trends
Communicate overarching omni-merchandising vision to category cross-functional teams
Drive innovation and make bold trade-offs to maximize category and brand
Serve as the customer and competitive expert for product, brand and category
Operate as a key Design partner to create customer, business and brand-relevant product offerings
Own product strategy and buying decisions for National and Proprietary brands
Visit relevant markets and regions to gather product and consumer information, ideate future product strategies and establish business relationships
Leads the merchandising and planning teams to appropriately price product to deliver on sales velocity, markdown and profit goals
Partner with Marketing team to develop sub-category marketing strategies, identify key merchandise stories and plan the timing of marketing campaigns
Lead and develop your team, identifying and building best-in-class talent and drive overall team engagement
Meet KPIs including Sales Performance, Merchandise Gross Margin performance, Turnover Performance to Profit and Loss, Customer Choice Metric and Change Management
Support and execute the team vision, set clear objectives, assign and direct work, manage performance, and maintain open communications to create an effective work environment
What Skills You Have
Required
Minimum of 10 years of experience in retail buying, with a focus on women’s footwear
Deep understanding of market trends, consumer behavior, and competitive landscape in the women’s footwear industry
Broad thinker with an enterprise view
Exceptional product acumen and ability to lead product creation and select relevant product
Catalyst of change with a growth mindset
Strong sense of curiosity, agility, urgency and resiliency
Outstanding communication and presentation skills
Strong collaboration and influence skills to build long-term strategic partnerships
Adept strategic and analytical skills to deliver growth
Passion and eye for product and customer obsession
Ability to develop top talent and highly engaged teams