Director of Website Merchandising

It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing!
We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business.
As the Director of Website Merchandising, you will play a pivotal role in curating and optimizing Peter Millar's merchandising strategy for our digital storefront. The ideal candidate will blend analytical prowess with creative vision to drive sales, enhance user experience, and maximize ROI through effective site merchandising.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Develop and execute a strategy to bring seasonal and essential product and key brand stories to life for the consumer through story telling and optimized site capabilities with a goal of driving conversion
• Drive innovation in site merchandising strategies through experimentation, technology adoption, and process improvements
• Continuously analyze product and category metrics, user behavior data, competitive landscape to identify opportunities to create new features/functionality to optimize the consumer shopping journey
• Oversee and optimize all site merchandising strategies including: category sorting, filters, onsite search, PDP images, PDP data, product loads, cross sells, product reviews, size charts, etc ensuring alignment with business objectives and maintaining brand integrity
• Partner with the content and photography teams to create compelling visual and written content that enhances product appeal and storytelling
• Partner with E-Commerce Analyst to develop A/B tests that drive revenue and improve consumer experience for various website merchandising initiatives including content, imagery, product recommendations, promotions, onsite search and navigation
• Lead, mentor, and manage site merchandising team providing guidance, direction, and support to ensure the achievement of goals and objectives. Drive a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the site merchandising team, exploring new front-end and back-end technologies, tools, and strategies to enhance effectiveness and stay competitive

COMPETENCIES:

• Passionate about product, the consumer and story telling
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; proven track record of uniting teams to achieve a common goal
• Ability to think strategically and identify new ways to improve the consumer shopping journey
• Strong attention to detail, you are organized with good management skills and will roll your sleeves up and lead by example at both strategic and tactical levels.
• Demonstrates the ability to give and receive constructive and objective feedback across the company (i.e. from peers, partners, vendors, etc.)
• Understands the value of brand and can effectively balance brand, user experience & business objectives.

DESIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree in E-Commerce, Marketing, Fashion Merchandising, Business Administration or related field
• 7-10 years of product merchandising experience in the e-commerce and/or Direct-to-Consumer industry, preferably with a luxury brand
• 3-5 years of leadership experience
• Experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud and InRiver strongly preferred

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!