A Director, Brand Manager for Men’s to drive sales & margin. You will include cultivate and build long-term relationships with key brands in the marketplace while collaborating with internal partners across several functional areas to create compelling, inspirational and robust events for Rue & Gilt's Men’s business that consistently surprise and delight our highly engaged member base.
What you’ll accomplish…
Directly manage the buying team that creates merchandise assortments, manages vendor relationships, negotiates pricing and sets event schedules.
Strategic business development; evaluating current business, competitive landscape and industry trends to identify key opportunities for growth and formulate actionable plans to achieve.
Merchandising and buying; coordinating with the RGG merchandise team to properly assort the event and negotiate product orders consistent with divisional sales and margin plans and company goals
Brand acquisition; identifying and securing relevant target brands and products for Rue & Gilt events. This role requires working independently and leveraging contacts as well as past associations, the DBM will present the benefits of a brand partnership with key RGG executives.
Account management; initiating contact and cultivating relationships to develop long-term relationships, enabling repeat participation in RGG mens events over extended periods of time. Developing win-win positioning and eliminating barriers to continued business participation.
Cross-functional collaboration; communicating divisional goals to relevant partners, ensuring support and synergy, coordination of calendar, operations and logistics to achieve successful and profitable event execution
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here’s More…
Constant exposure to all aspects of RGG business. Work closely with many of our amazing departments: Programming, Planning, Boutique Production, Creative, Programming, and Marketing, and have the ability to learn from all of these teams
THE RIGHT FIT:
You have…
Bachelor’s degree
10 years related experience in retail buying/merchandising
Excellent interpersonal skills
Strong relationship building skills
Proven management experience/leadership skills
Ability to set strategy and manage a cross-functional process
Demonstrated ability to work independently and remotely in a fast-paced and dynamic work environment
ABOUT US:
Rue Gilt Groupe combines world-class merchandising, technology and marketing to create the most engaging and satisfying online shopping experience available. Each day, 35 million loyal Members turn to Rue La La and Gilt for everything from women, men and children’s apparel and accessories to home décor and exclusive experiences. Our approach to retail brings excitement to online shopping in a way that not only strategically supports our brand partners, but also inspires our Members daily.
This Company is an equal opportunity employer, and selects individuals best matched for the job based upon job-related qualifications regardless of race, religion, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, national origin, gender identity, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status or any other status or characteristic protected by law.
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