Merchandising Director
Tiffany & Co.
**Overview**
This role will drive brand elevation as well as brand desirability and maximize sales potential through strategic merchandising and creative visual merchandising for Tiffany Korea. This position requires a strategic mindset, strong analytical skills, deep market insights, and a passion for luxury jewelry retail.
**Responsibilities**
Develop merchandising strategies aligned with regional and global objectives.
+ Lead optimized product assortment and inventory level by store typology in collaboration with partnering global and regional functions.
+ Deliver Retail communications on new product launches and major merchandising initiatives.
+ Work cross-functionally with other functions to elevate the clients experience and maximize sales performance through strategic merchandising actions.
+ Analyze market and competitors’ pricing positioning and share the local insights to the global team.
Project accurate product sales plans by category by channels.
+ Prepare the product sales plan by category and by key collections for Retail, E-Commerce and Retail Partners for the yearly budget.
+ Provide the sales forecast of the newness.
+ Work closely with Demand planning for monthly estimation of detailed sales plans which leads to efficient production and inventory management plans.
+ Drive effective collaboration with Inventory planning to ensure optimized inventory supply.
Manage Creative Visual Merchandising
+ Ensure consistent in-store product presentation by implementing CVM standards aligned with the global strategies.
+ Manage the planning, installation and maintenance of seasonal creative campaigns.
+ Lead the global alignment, budgeting and activations for pop-ups/ins events.
+ Train and foster in-store CVM ambassadors to enhance the effective VM implementation.
Curate the most effective assortment for special events
+ Create the event assortment in line with the business objectives.
+ Secure elevated High Jewelry offers for the local High Jewelry event.
+ Lead the communication with the global High Jewelry(HJ) team on the HJ performance.
Lead outstanding Team Management, Collaboration and Leadership
+ Develop professional staff to be result-driven and self-starting aligned to the Tiffany competency model
+ Set clear goals and performance KPIs to guide the team and encourage goal achievement.
+ Foster an open communication culture within the team to create a collaborative and innovative environment.
+ Drive effective cross-functional collaboration with relevant functions to align the strategic and operational objectives and to maximize the performance. (Retail, Retail Excellence, Finance, Marketing, Operations, etc)
**Required**
+ A passion for the luxury jewelry industry with strong merchandising knowledge, planning and analyzing skills
+ Over 15 years of working experience, of which at least 2 years of senior managerial role is mandatory
+ Ability to interact with flexibility and diplomacy with key stakeholders
+ Proactive, creative problem solver
+ Highly Proficiency in English
+ Bachelor Degree or equivalent
+ Fluent in both Korean & English
**Preferred**
+ Working experience in global luxury organization
+ Jewelry & Watch industry experience
+ Solid knowledge base on gemstone, jewelry and timepieces – GIA Certification is a plus
**Job Identification** : 60753
**Job Category:** : Merchandising
**Assignment Category** : Regular Full-time
**Remote Positions** : Flexible
**Professional Experience** : Minimum 10 Years
Equal Opportunity Employer
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