Position: Senior Merchant – Victoria’s Secret Global

Your Role

Lead the team in driving sales, growth, and margin, supporting total brand objectives based on a robust understanding of the customer. Primary contact for planning, store ops, marketing, and visual to ensure the brand vision is consistently executed and the right product distortions are communicated to create a one of a kind in store shopping experience. Possesses strong leadership skills as they are ultimately responsible for driving cross-functional communication and motivating the team to be customer focused, innovative, fast, and team oriented in their work.

Why You Belong Here

At Victoria’s Secret, we acknowledge your value. We recognize that every associate has something unique to add to our brand and business. We strive to recruit, retain, and advance diverse talent that reflects the customers we serve and the communities where we live and work. We foster a culture where everyone belongs because we know our business thrives most when we look for, listen to, and amplify diversity, equity, and inclusion.

We place the customer at the heart of everything we do. We dream big, embrace curiosity and creativity while always learning from our mistakes. We lead with integrity, trust, and respect to achieve the best outcomes as one team.

Your Impact

Leadership & Strategy

• Drives international brand businesses by connecting financial patterns and market insights to identify growth opportunities, while maintaining the replication model
• Demonstrates a holistic approach and champions cross-category alignment and partnership
• Contributes to the success of the categories through replicating and adapting brand strategies in markets around the world while meeting or exceeding the financial goals
• Drives category business by “outside of the box” thinking that connects the lines between financial patterns and market/store insights to identify growth opportunities
• Leads day to day communication between all members of the team
• Represents international in key brand & cross-functional meetings, driving prioritization and distortion
• Actively reacts to shifts in performance and provides recommended actions

Financial

• Accountable for sales and growth targets, recognizing opportunities for incremental growth and risk management
• Drives category alignment and collaboration with planning partners
• Understands product sales trends and historical data at the category level in order to manage in season opportunities.
• Collaborates across departments to build and cascade seasonal hindsight, focusing on impact to forward strategy
• Partners with deployment, space planning and demand forecasters to maximize inventory investments and product availability leveraging market insights
• Align with planning on incremental size assortment and buys

Product

• Influences domestic brand merchants on international needs when different approach is required from the global assortments
• Drives decisions around assortment edits/distortions by market
• Partners with domestic brand merchants to drive their vision across the globe
• Understands customer intimacy and competitive environment; proactively seeking knowledge through exposure and travel to market

Cross Functional Communication & Partner Support

• Owns internal and external partner communication from a merchandising perspective: maintain strong line of communication with field team and directly with partners when applicable

Talent

• Trains, motivates, and develops the team to ensure effective performance and growth through consistent on-the-job training
• Acts as a role model within the company by coaching and teaching team members to work together and remain focused