Head of Merchandising - Jewelry

Job description / Role

Head of Merchandising / Jewelry / Dubai

To work with the senior management team to drive the brand by developing and deploying a strategic range of planning solutions to potentialize the opportunity that cohesive, coordinated collections create for sales growth; essentially, planning best-fit product mix by market and store type.

Client Details

Our client is a well-established jewelry company with over 200 stores across the Middle East region.

Description

- Participate in the annual business planning process in collaboration with other members of the senior management team.
- Collaborate with cross-functional peers to develop and communicate a comprehensive inventory strategy that aligns future financial and product opportunities by store.
- Achieve sales / store targets and optimize inventory through effective inventory planning.
- Provide feedback and guidance to the NPD function in order to effectively plan and deliver market leadership in new themes per in-house brand, new designs and new product types.
- Oversee overall category plans in the areas of pricing, promotion, assortment and allocation for each store concept, ensuring consistency with the company's overall goals and strategy.
- Analyze, review and report on the performance of in house collections and individual product ranges by using appropriate measurement tools; hindsight historical and current trends analysis to identify risks and opportunities for the business.
- Use product and brand performance data to leverage efficiencies with peer group functions such as planning, product and supply chain.
- Monitor sales performance on a continual basis to ensure the right product mix for each store, consistency of presentation and cost optimization of inventory movement.
- Create a collaborative, innovative and results oriented environment with peers and cross-functional partners.

Job Offer

- Competitive package and family benefits

Requirements

- 5+ years merchandising experience with a well-known jewelry retailer
- Able to develop constructive and effective relationships with cross-functional partners; able to maintain credibility and presence within the broader business

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.