Merchandising Manager

About the role

The Merchandising Manager is responsible for supporting the development and execution of merchandising strategies that drive sales, optimize inventory, and enhance store performance across the network, ultimately delivering the business plan in line with the Company strategy. Supporting HOM, this role will utilize the support and strength within the merchandising team to lead them to success. This position manages multiple product categories with a tailored approach: it requires a highly hands-on, operational-level involvement for Men's Ready-to-Wear, while focusing on high-level oversight and final decision-making for Men's Shoes.

What you'll do

• Deliver the business plan across assigned product ranges (Men's RTW and Shoes) in alignment with overall company goals and strategic vision.
• Lead and execute seasonal buying strategies (including Paris showroom buying sessions); define product assortments and manage Open-to-Buy (OTB) parameters tailored to local market needs and trends.
• Strategize, plan, and execute major collection events, trunk shows, and new product launches in close collaboration with Marketing, VM, and Boutique teams to maximize commercial impact and VIP client engagement.
• Act as the primary strategic bridge and maintain seamless, proactive communication with Global Headquarters (Paris), Store & Retail Teams, and Local Cross-Functional Partners (Marketing, PR, VM, Retail Operations, Retail Learning, Supply Chain).
• Directly manage, mentor, and develop a team of two (2) merchandising staff members to maximize departmental strength and drive collective success.
• Support the Merchandising Director in setting clear KPIs for the team, evaluating performance, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment.
• Men's RTW: Take full ownership of day-to-day retail operations, inventory allocation, and execution down to the operational, ground level.
• Men's Shoes: Provide macro-level strategic oversight, review overall performance, and exercise final decision-making/approval authority.
• Drive sales, optimize product assortment, and manage healthy stock levels across the boutique network through rigorous business analysis and reporting.
• Analyze & generate periodical sales and KPI report for Merchandising Director & HQ Central team and propose appropriate action to take.
• Be proactive on managing balanced stock flow in the store together with SC.
• Be active and alarmed always on Fashion trends to propose country specific market insights and new product initiatives.
• Be responsible in processing season collection materials (set venue for training, produce training materials etc).
• Merchset management (monitor stock in/out from head office for various event purposes).
• Monitor, control products performance with target sell-through and brainstorm action plans.

Requirements

• Minimum 15 years of strong merchandising experience and mindset.
• Bachelor's degree at minimum.
• Excellent communication skills in both Korean and English (both verbal and written) with partners and stores.
• Strong luxury business background with insights.
• Demonstrates high commercial instinct.
• Multi-Dimensional Analysis on retail aspects.
• Excellent tool skills (PowerPoint, Excel as mandatory).
• Demonstrated ability to structure and cross-analyze complex, multi-dimensional retail metrics (Sell-through, OTB, WOS, Margin) by store tiers and product categories to derive actionable business insights.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel (complex formulas, pivot tables, and data modeling) and familiarity with enterprise retail systems (e.g., PBI, Anaplan etc).
• Deep understanding of the local luxury market trends and consumer behaviors to plan healthy OTB parameters and optimize local product assortments.
• Experience in leading seasonal buying sessions in international showrooms (e.g., Paris) and managing product lifecycle extensions.
• A proven hands-on mindset to manage day-to-day execution, ground-level retail operations, and detailed stock allocation for Men's RTW.
• Strategic oversight capabilities to monitor the Shoes portfolio from a macro perspective and make swift, high-level business decisions.
• Multi-Stakeholder Alignment & Negotiation skills.
• Fluent Business English.

Preferred qualifications

• Past luxury retail experience is highly preferential.
• Relevant field of major is preferential.
• An approachable and inspiring leader who takes pride in developing junior talent, capable of clear delegation, constructive feedback, and pulling a team of 2 direct reports together to achieve shared business objectives.

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