Description
Here at Huckberry, we're building the 21st century men's retailer. We’re on a mission to inspire and equip adventures near and far, and along the way create the most loved men’s retailer on the planet.
We are looking for a Merchandise Manager to oversee our growing Footwear, Home, and Everyday Carry business. This self starter will be responsible for driving the overall business for the departments, ensuring that we have a curated assortment of the best products across the multiple categories, while hitting key financial metrics. As the head of the departments, you’ll also lead the development and growth of the footwear, EDC, and home buying team. This is the perfect role for a strong merchant who has a strong sense of style and brand awareness, who is eager to grow a thriving business.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with leads in merchandising and planning to develop seasonal line plans based on sales trend, product mix and flow, rev and margin expectations
- Analyze sales in order to read and react to business and devise strategies to optimize sales
- Work with planning team to manage OTB for all departments
- Ensure that pricing, promotional strategies, and marketing support the financial objectives of the dept
- Work closely with marketing and editorial on overall brand and product messaging
- Communicate any key launches, changes, major messaging to the email lead
- Develop and maintain relationships with Key brands for 3rd party. Mentor buying team on proper management of relationships and negotiations
- Manage overall brand assortment and aesthetic while curating and discovering new brands
- Grow the house brands business by working with the development team on new opportunities
- Developing marketing and brand partnership strategies to support category growth.
- Fosters an environment that promotes personal development of buyers and their businesses, high morale amongst entire buying team and personally sets the example for development of team members
Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years leading a buying team (preferably with footwear and accessories)
- Strong understanding of the Huckberry customer
- Great taste level and ability to spot up and coming brands/ products as it relates to the Huckberry customer
- Understanding of retail metrics and OTB process
- Ability to develop effective processes and procedures that support business growth
- Thrives on implementing or improving processes, and flexible within an ambiguous, ever-changing work environment
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
Company Description
Here at Huckberry, we're building the 21st century men's retailer. We’re on a mission to inspire and equip adventures near and far, and along the way create the most loved men’s retailer on the planet. We were recently named one of IAB's most disruptive consumer brands of 2019, and are only just getting started.
Huckberry was bootstrapped from a $20k personal investment in 2011 from co-founders Richard Greiner and Andy Forch to over 70 employees before raising its first outside capital in 2017. Today, we’re still independent and headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in Columbus, Ohio. Our investors all started as customers, and include members of the Nordstrom family, Simon family, Hormel family, and #1 New York Times best-selling author Tim Ferriss.
Our mission of inspiring and equipping adventures is at the core of everything we do. That's why in addition to competitive market salaries and benefits, we have a generous vacation policy, a sabbatical program (recent employee trips include a surf and yoga retreat in Morocco, dog sledding in Norway et al.), summer "See You Out There" Fridays, white water rafting trips, and, of course, loads of free gear.
Additional Information
Huckberry encourages candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are always eager to further diversify our company, and we are committed to providing an inclusive environment of mutual respect where all can flourish. All of our employment decisions are based solely on merit and business need.