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The Senior Director of Merchandising is responsible driving the company's merchandising and design strategy for stationery, photo books and gifts as it relates to its four brands: Shutterfly, Tiny Prints, Wedding Paper Divas and Treat. We are looking for an expert taste maker and effective leader who can lead a talented team of 30 merchants in continuing to innovate in our space and develop best-in-class merchandising collections. The Sr. Director of Merchandising will lead four functions: Merchandising for Cards & Stationery, Merchandising for Photo Books and Gifts, Internal Design and Photo Curation. This role will report to the Chief Design Officer and work with the CDO, General Managers and other key cross-functional executives to identify the most critical merchandising and product opportunities and drive results.
Responsibilities Include:
Management and Leadership
Direct and develop a highly passionate and effective team of Merchants and Internal Designers
Optimize processes and best practice sharing between merchandising sub-teams and brands, including back-end merchandising catalog team.
Provide cross-functional department leadership and initiate process improvements with Marketing, Creative, Business Unit and Product Management teams.
Merchandise Strategy and Planning
Drive the overall quarterly, annual and long term merchandising strategy for each brand and lead all aspects of planning. Propose projects for roadmap and oversee timely execution.
Create overall strategy and framework used to develop merchandising assortment.
Ensure appropriate tracking and measurement mechanisms are in place to assess results of projects.
Oversee company's photo curation needs (for sample products) and manage photo team.
Design Direction
Work closely with the CDO to shape and elevate our brands' design content and recommend new physical products.
Provide leadership and expertise with respect to design trend, inspiration and creativity.
Ensure teams are executing on company's brand, design differentiation and aesthetic goals.
Approve merchandising collections.
Develop overall internal card designer strategy, manage team and provide concept and card direction. Streamline processes and promote collaboration between designers and merchants.
Visual Merchandising
Collaborate with eCommerce/Site Team to provide compelling, effective product content throughout each storefront. Drive visual merchandising strategy on category level pages.
Set product selection strategy for marketing and site merchandising product placements.
Requirements:
Passion for design, stationery and retail; previous e-commerce experience a plus
Proven leader (8+ years) and strategic thinker with a passion for managing and mentoring
Exceptional strategic, analytical and problem solving skills
Ability to build effective partnerships across the internal organization at all levels
High IQ; low ego; results & team oriented, metric and fact based, and fun
Design and technical Adobe Illustrator experience a plus
MBA from top-tier school preferred
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