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ECommerce Designer
Position Summary: The Designer is responsible for creating outstanding, sophisticated designs for website pages, emails, special features, landing pages, blog postings and advertisements for a major fashion e-commerce site. He/she will work under the guidance of a senior design team, and is expected to develop the knowledge and skill to artistically represent our brand and style for all projects.
Key Accountabilities :
- Design daily and weekly graphic updates to the website
- Create trend and marketing emails for different customer segments
- Design static and animated banner ads to promote website
- Ensure consistency of design for the brand, website and related marketing projects.
- Assist with design of corporate marketing projects when necessary
Desired Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in a Graphic Design or related field
- Minimum of 4 years of related experience in an ecommerce role
- Proven ability to contribute creative design content
- Strong knowledge of current fashion trends, styles and designers
- Experience with an in-house design team
- Must be Adobe Creative Suite expert (including Flash). A strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax are a plus.
- Excellent communications skills within a collaborative team environment
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with meticulous attention to quality and detail
- Proven ability to manage time appropriately and to meet multiple weekly deadlines
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects with flexibility to change focus quickly as priorities shift
- Additional experience with print design/advertising, collateral, identity and branding a plus |
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Web Planner
Key Accountabilities :
- Develop monthly, quarterly and annual merchandise plans based on corporate buying: evaluate on rolling quarterly basis
- Formulate and profitably execute ecommerce/web forecasting, planning and inventory management
- Conduct review of monthly plan
- Ongoing management of the web merchandise planning process; work closely with VP - - Planning & Allocation, Merchandising team and Director of Site Experience & Merchandising
- Monitor competitive websites
- Partner with merchants and planners to communicate product and merchandising strategy and plan to the ecommerce team, ensuring availability of product and inventory for photo shoots, production and orders
Desired Requirements:
- 3+ years of experience in merchandise buying, planning & allocation
- Ecommerce website experience a plus
- Bachelor's degree required
- Expertise in retail math
- Strong analytical skills
- Creative, assertive and solution-oriented when faced with difficult business performance and/or challenging directives from senior management
- Superb presentation and communication skills, both spoken and written
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Understanding of ecommerce and merchandise planning a MUST
- Self starter, can create process
Personal Traits :
- Self starter, can build processes and procedures
- Creative, Dynamic, Strategic, Results Oriented
- Passion for apparel/luxury/fashion/retail brands
- Ability to work with a lot of autonomy
- Loves to build
- Smart; gets it
- Proactive versus reactive
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Ready To Wear Buyer
Position Summary: Responsible for achieving sales and profitability targets for specific categories. This includes assortment planning, merchandising strategies, vendor management, open-to-buy monitoring, pricing, cost negotiations, and inventory management.
Key Accountabilities :
- Develops a merchandising strategy, including product selection, to maximize sales, margin and profitability targets for specific categories
- Translates fashion trends into appropriate assortments for the Intermix customer
- Manages the business in season through in-season analysis and tactical adjustments
- Manages the timely placement and maintenance of purchase orders
- Recommends pricing and markdown strategies
- Partners with planning on analysis and assortment planning to achieve financial plans
- Evaluates the open-to-buy, markdowns and inventory levels for specific department(s)
- Monitors inventory productivity and vendor profitability
- Participates in line reviews to ensure brand cohesiveness and competitive assortments
- Manages vendor negotiations and strengthens market relationships
- Identifies new vendors and business opportunities in the marketplace
- Monitor the competition and customer by market
- Attend domestic and/or international trade & fashion shows
- Trains and develops direct reports
- Mentors Associate/Assistant/Merchandise Assistant level roles
- Contributes to positive morale in the department and organization
Desired Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in business or fashion related discipline
- 4+ years progressive buying experience for a multi-vendor luxury brand (RTW)
- Proven track record of success and ability to drive a business
- Proven ability to create product assortments to meet customer needs
- Strong business and financial analysis skills
- Strong retail math acumen
- Keen fashion sense and trend forecasting ability
- Excellent communication, negotiation and problem solving skills
- Ability to interface effectively with multiple departments as well as senior management
- Demonstrated managerial and leadership abilities
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally when required |
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Assistant Buyer
Key Accountabilities :
- Provide operational and administrative support to the buyer
- Support the buyer with development of the merchandise strategy and assist with product selection
- Ensure timely delivery of merchandise through consistent communication with the vendors, distribution center, and buying team
- Manage timely entry and maintenance of purchase orders and assists buyer with writing orders
- Complete business recaps with buyer direction
- Participate in markdown and allocation strategies
- Understand the competition and customer by market
- Prepare information for line reviews
- Suggest ideas for new vendors each season
- Communicate to stores using the appropriate communication channels
- Contribute to positive morale in the department and organization
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in business or fashion related discipline
- 1-2 years of Assistant Buying experience in a multi-vendor or luxury brand environment
- Strong analytical ability and retail math acumen
- Keen fashion sense and trend forecasting ability
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Strong PC, organizational and problem solving skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, multi-task and maintain attention to detail |
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Merchandise Analyst
Key Accountabilities :
- Direct the store rankings process
- Manage the allocation of quantities to stores, which will effectively maximize the ability of each store to generate sales and margin
- Ensure the stores are kept in stock, respective to their ability to sell merchandise
- Manage replenishment and conduct periodic reviews of sales units, dollars, sales rankings and penetration to ensure that the buy quantities and stock levels meet current sales trends and store rankings
- Partner with the Planning and Buying teams on managing the receipt and inventory forecasts and reporting unit and $ performance by store and department
- Develop specific reports to support the business and complete ad-hoc reporting to drive or react to current or future business conditions
- Train and coach all direct reports to have a working knowledge of store attribute and the ability to apply this knowledge to allocation of merchandise, and monitoring the business at the store level
- Visit stores on a regular basis to ensure you have a strong understanding of the merchandise performance, as well as of the customer
Desired Requirements:
- Bachelor degree in business or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in inventory management; planning or demand forecasting
- Strong leadership and team-building skills; supervisory/management experience
- Ability to manage and motivate people to results; set challenging standards of achievement; lead others to action
- Experience in high volume, multi-vendor apparel preferred
- Strong communication and negotiation skills working with multiple partners and interfacing effectively with senior management to resolve exceptions and negotiate best alternatives
- Strong analytical skills ability to analyze and understand quantitative data
- Strong prioritization skills; flexibility to shift focus/priorities at a moment's notice
- Expert command of retail math concepts, applications, and statistical analysis
- Ability to maintain a cooperative team environment that promotes high performance standards and attainment of goals
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, specifically Excel; knowledge of ANT planning system a plus
- KWI and/or Maple Lake experience a plus
- Exceptional retail math skills as well as advanced excel skills Execel skills; Microsoft Access a plus
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Fashion Copywriter/ Opportunities for Part Time and Full Time
Position Summary: The Fashion Copywriter is responsible for writing product descriptions, trend information, blog postings, marketing materials and more for a major fashion e-commerce site. The site is a leading fashion destination featuring the latest designers and styles, so candidate must have an excellent fashion sense and knowledge of fashion trends.
Key Accountabilities :
- Create daily product, style and fashion copy under guidance of Site Experience Director
- Organize product copy requirements to meet deadlines
- Post product copy to website
- Write creative copy for marketing materials
- Create copy for fashion blog
- Enhance search engine optimization projects with creative copy
- Ensure consistency of copy for product descriptions, brand, "voice" of website and related marketing projects
Desired Requirements:
- Bachelors degree in a business, fashion or marketing related discipline
- Minimum of 4 years of related experience in a writing role
- Proven ability to write detailed and engaging copy
- Strong knowledge of current fashion trends, styles and designers.
- Strong knowledge of product construction and details
- Excellent communications skills within a collaborative team environment
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with meticulous attention to quality and detail
- Proven ability to manage time appropriately and to meet multiple weekly deadlines
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple projects with flexibility to change focus quickly as priorities shift
- Proficient in MS office
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PR Manager
Key Accountabilities :
- Assist the Marketing Director on daily assignments
- Liaison between Intermix and 3rd party PR agency
- Pitch story ideas to the Marketing Director on a weekly basis or as needed
- Manage all press clips (via PowerPoint)
- Manage the PR interns
- Write press releases on new topics/items within Intermix
- Send out newsworthy email blasts with approved press release to editors on a project by project basis
- Work with the Marketing Director (and 3rd party agency) on on-going PR plans/strategies
- Consistently monitor the calendar of events to inform the Marketing Director & CEO of noteworthy events/parties
- Work with editors and stylists on daily in-store pulls
- Build relationships with current vendor's PR reps in order to gain credits
- Work on updating the status report for the weekly meetings
- Updating press kits
- Monitoring/managing the "in the press" section of Intermixonline.com
- Work on getting the Intermix blog up and running
- Assist the Marketing Director on solidifying the CFDA membership
- Manage the Fashion Calendar subscription
- Work on trend reports in order to give editors notice of our take on the season
- Consistently seek out blogs/editorials on "trends of the season" topics in order to pitch the Fashion Director
Experience:
- 4+ years of experience in fashion or fashion-related public relations
- Strong writing skills
- Ability to work well in a team setting
- Strong communication skills
- Strong base of editorial contacts/relationships
- Prior experience in the luxury fashion industry
- Strong online media contacts
Personality Traits:
- Creative, dynamic, results oriented and COOL
- Plugged into "the buzz", and social media outlets; passion for the industry
- Strategic yet hands on; involved in the day-to-day
- Resilient and has the ability to "open doors"
- Brings innovation to the business and I excited to share PR news and ventures with colleagues and collaborative departments
- High energy level; must motivate and be capable of getting teams to work together with a single vision
- Ability to work with a lot of autonomy
- Pro-active versus reactive
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Disctrict Manager
Key Accountabilities :
- Implement strategies for achieving/exceeding sales plan
- Ensure consistent high levels of customer service by maintaining standards in direct report stores
- Communicate regularly with store management to maximize business opportunities and troubleshoot issues
- Implement motivational tools and incentives to drive business and to foster a positive work environment
- Foster and maintain open door policy
- Motivate each member of the team on a consistent basis
- Create and maintain development action plans for direct reports
- Responsible for the career path of entire team
- Provide leadership to stores through team building, coaching, counseling and performance management
- Partner with HR on all employee relation issues within stores
- Create a strategy for recruitment, retention and succession planning
- Partner with various departments at the corporate office to ensure that brand management is consistently adhered to
- Responsible for the hiring, training and on-boarding of team
- Recruit and hire qualified candidates who will be ambassadors of the INTERMIX Brand
- Partner with planning and buying department to communicate any product needs
- Organize and facilitate customer service, branding meetings within District
- Control Shortage and expense control for the district
- Ensure that all policies and procedures are followed consistently and that changes are communicated effectively
- Oversee inventory control and any issues arising from internal or external theft issues
- Ensure operational controls are in place and adhered to at all times.
Desired Requirements:
- BA in Business Administration or related field
- 5+ years retail management experience in a multi-store environment (luxury experience is a plus)
- Retail Operations knowledge including: sales, customer service, merchandising, -inventory control, store budget preparation and loss prevention.
- Knowledge in staffing, coaching, counseling, training and development.
- Strong analytical and computer skills |
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Operations Manager
Key Accountabilities :
- Manage and maintain operational effectiveness 24+ retail stores
- Identify property maintenance needs and/or capital improvement requirements
- Manage logistics relationship with in-house distribution center
- Oversee inventory control process
- Maintain retail operating budget and ensure budgetary guidelines are being met
- Identify and create maintenance contacts for all stores
- Serve as the contact person for all stores to troubleshoot daily issues and emergencies
- Partner with Sr. Director of Retail to ensure operational effectiveness in order to maximize sales and customer service
- Partner with Retail Development Manager to maintain new store opening calendar and coordinate new store opening functions between all departments
- Partner with Human Resources to review, update and maintain store operational policies, practices and guidelines
- Travel to all store locations to conduct operational reviews
- Identify and create maintenance contacts for all stores
- Coordinate POS and retail information system needs with the IT department
- Maintain purchasing budgets and supply ordering process for all stores
- Create, introduce and supervise loss prevention initiatives in stores
- Able to be on-call for all store emergency issues
- Manage written communications on product Information, contests, and expense control
- Send and update product Information for the field (vendor seminars, snapshots, bios etc.)
- Create and send out Daily Communication Newsletter to the field and corporate
- Roll out and create as needed, all operational, sales & HR initiatives
- Implement operational tools for the field
- Track all store compliance
- Act as liaison for stores to field management
- Create operational work-load calendar for department
- Update all Policy and Procedure Handbook with help of Human Resources
- Track and monitor all expense budgets
- Manage operational calendar
Desired Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree - in related field preferred
- A minimum of 7 years experience in multi store retail operations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Effective leadership skills
- Very flexible to change and open to improvements
- Ability to build trustworthy relations with high integrity
- Strong project management and planning skills, with ability to manage, prioritize, multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Very high attention to detail
- Extremely proactive and naturally inquisitive; desire to continuously improve current business practices/processes
- Must have experience working with cross-functional teams
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