VP, Divisional Merchandise Manager (DMM)
Apply NowCompany: maurices
Location: Duluth, MN 55811
Description:
Brand Overview:
maurices is a women's apparel retailer that celebrates feel good fashion for real life. It's committed to its service with style promise and offering affordable fashion that takes women from workday to weekend and all of life's adventures in between. With inclusive sizing from 0-24, maurices is famous for its versatile styles including key categories such as denim, dresses, tops, and more. Established in 1931, maurices operates 935 stores in communities across North America. Discover even more fashion at maurices.com.
Ready to apply? We currently have an opportunity for a VP, Divisional Merchandise Manager (DMM) to join our team located at our Corporate Office-maurices-Duluth, MN 55802.
Ready to help bring feel good fashion for real life to hometowns across North America? Join our family of amazing individuals in our corporate office in Duluth, Minnesota, ranked one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in 2019. Since 1931, we've helped women look and feel their best every day - making maurices not only a special place to shop, but a great place to work and connect. Apply today!
Position Overview:
Senior level omni-channel leader within Merchandising responsible for driving and executing maurices' annual and long term product strategies. The Divisional Merchandise Manager (DMM) is a strategic thinker, an ambassador of the brand, has strong business acumen, and is a well respected influencer across the organization. The ability to develop cross-functional relationships that drive collaboration and cohesion across teams, ultimately leading to strong business results, is essential.
Performance requirements
Product
Business & Strategy
People Leadership:
Organizational Leadership:
Work Experience and education requirements
Education:
Experience:
Skills:
Location:
Corporate Office-maurices-Duluth, MN 55802Position Type:
Regular/Full time
Pay Range:
Annual Salary: $175,000.00 - $225,000.00
Equal Employment Opportunity
The Company is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified people at all levels. It is our policy in all personnel actions to ensure that all associates and potential associates are evaluated on the basis of qualifications and ability without regard to sex (including pregnancy), race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. We do not discriminate in any of our employment policies and practices. All associates are expected to follow these principles in all relationships with other associates, applicants, or others with whom we do business.
maurices is a women's apparel retailer that celebrates feel good fashion for real life. It's committed to its service with style promise and offering affordable fashion that takes women from workday to weekend and all of life's adventures in between. With inclusive sizing from 0-24, maurices is famous for its versatile styles including key categories such as denim, dresses, tops, and more. Established in 1931, maurices operates 935 stores in communities across North America. Discover even more fashion at maurices.com.
Ready to apply? We currently have an opportunity for a VP, Divisional Merchandise Manager (DMM) to join our team located at our Corporate Office-maurices-Duluth, MN 55802.
Ready to help bring feel good fashion for real life to hometowns across North America? Join our family of amazing individuals in our corporate office in Duluth, Minnesota, ranked one of the Top 100 Best Places to Live in 2019. Since 1931, we've helped women look and feel their best every day - making maurices not only a special place to shop, but a great place to work and connect. Apply today!
Position Overview:
Senior level omni-channel leader within Merchandising responsible for driving and executing maurices' annual and long term product strategies. The Divisional Merchandise Manager (DMM) is a strategic thinker, an ambassador of the brand, has strong business acumen, and is a well respected influencer across the organization. The ability to develop cross-functional relationships that drive collaboration and cohesion across teams, ultimately leading to strong business results, is essential.
Performance requirements
Product
- Develops divisional and departmental merchandising strategy to align with company's financial goals
- Utilizes and articulates business insights, external research, and customer feedback to architect the seasonal assortment and react to in-season business
- Lead merchandising team to utilize market intelligence and customer insights to influence concept, assortments, financial plans, and promotional strategy
- Identify trends and capitalize on them - ensuring creation of a unique collection that emphasizes maurices "unique selling proposition"
Business & Strategy
- Ensures immediate and long-term profitability by planning statistically and conceptually for short and long-range development of business
- Manages in-season omni-channel business by tracking and analyzing sales information in order to identify opportunities to increase sales, improve margins, maximize inventories and decrease markdowns
- Can anticipate future consequences accurately and create appropriate strategies
- Considers the big picture - things beyond own scope to understand the impact of a decision on the department, division, and company
People Leadership:
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a merchandising team
- Motivates the team to be customer focused, agile, and innovative
- Sets clear objectives and effectively delegates
- Develops successors and talent pools for key positions
Organizational Leadership:
- Leads with integrity & a people first mentality; provides perspective, input, and ideas to the team & other leaders on company needs and opportunities
- Ensures that the needs of the division are in line with those of the company
- Seizes opportunities to influence the future direction of maurices
Work Experience and education requirements
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field preferred
Experience:
- Previous buying or senior merchandising level experience with a successful retailer (preferably specialty store)
- 10+ years of experience in the merchandising arena - track record of success and increasing responsibility
Skills:
- Strong sense of fashion
- Business acumen
- Demonstrated ability to lead a diverse team, proven management experience (people and projects)
- Ability to meet strict deadlines
- Exceptional communication skills, and strategic thinking skills
- Ability to travel
Location:
Corporate Office-maurices-Duluth, MN 55802Position Type:
Regular/Full time
Pay Range:
Annual Salary: $175,000.00 - $225,000.00
Equal Employment Opportunity
The Company is committed to hiring and developing the most qualified people at all levels. It is our policy in all personnel actions to ensure that all associates and potential associates are evaluated on the basis of qualifications and ability without regard to sex (including pregnancy), race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability that can reasonably be accommodated without undue hardship, genetic information, military status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected classification under federal, state, or local law. We do not discriminate in any of our employment policies and practices. All associates are expected to follow these principles in all relationships with other associates, applicants, or others with whom we do business.