Head of Product & Merchandising

Come Join the HC Brands Family!

Superstars are easy to spot. They're bright, dynamic, and passionate. They don't settle for good enough, they demand excellence both of themselves and others. And at HC Brands https://www.holmescustom.com/all-brands, superstars are the norm, not the exception.

At HC Brands, we are passionate about driving fast, profitable growth through our family of online channels. Put your creative merchandising skills to work designing and selling personalized custom products across several popular online brands. Leverage your creative design and store management abilities to design an online shopping experience that showcases our goods to new and returning customers. At HC Brands, we specialize in sourcing thousands of personalized products from vendors all over the world then personalize and ship them from our own in-house fulfillment centers located across the US.

We are looking for an experienced, driven leader to head our product sourcing, design, and merchandising teams. The right candidate will bring an effective balance of creativity, negotiating prowess, and the analytical discipline necessary to source and sell the right products, with the best designs, to the right customers, in order to maximize sales and profitability.

We are an entrepreneurial business with a cool, high-tech atmosphere, and freedom to experiment.

Product Development & Merchandising

Drive business performance through effective product merchandising

Lead product assortment and design and develop a product line plan to achieve and exceed financial goals

Manage new product buying process by effectively analyzing sales information to identify opportunities for increasing sales and improving profit margins

Identify market trends, key category needs, historical selling patterns, hero products, and trending designs and colors

Analyze category metrics to understand consumer behavior and react to key findings; report findings on a weekly and monthly basis to showcase highlights and identify opportunities for improvement

Lead product assortment strategies, including design themes, color stories, licenses, and product focus, and ensure they are on trend and effectively communicated to consistently drive sales

Lead a team of Online Store Managers to optimize store layout, navigation, sortation, and merchandising to drive top line sales growth and maximum conversion.

Partner with purchasing department to source new products, calendar and costing strategies to facilitate production planning

Contribute to weekly sales meetings, monitor on-hand inventory and sell-through, and adjust daily/weekly to reach monthly and annual financial goals; create new, original designs, highlight and feature product based on historical business performance

Negotiate sourcing and competitive pricing agreements with suppliers and vendors

Creative

Build strong relationships across departments with Brand and Channel marketing, GM, and UX teams
Pitch campaign concepts to internal stakeholders to grow our unique brands
Develop campaigns from concept and photo shoot to channel deliverables
Deliver style guides and kit of parts as needed
Lead graphic design team to create product and on-site imagery to drive sales and site conversion
Create exciting, innovative products that will grow new and returning customers

Skills

Minimum five years’ experience in product purchasing, design, and/or merchandising, ecommerce experience desired
4-year College Degree in Business, Marketing, or Product Development required
Dynamic personality who can build trusting relationships within all levels of the organization and create and sell a vision
Outgoing, Positive and Engaging personality with high levels of Emotional Maturity.
Mature, outgoing, positive, and engaging personality; strategic, analytical, creative thinker
Acute sense of brand and customer insight
Goal orientated; ability to stay focused on delivering results
Leadership experience at high-performing company with revenue of $50 million or more
Experience managing teams of 10 or more dynamic individuals

Why join the HC Brands team?

Fantastic compensation and benefits package
Passionate people who love to work here!
Company events such as baseball games, bowling nights and many more
Volunteer opportunities to give back to the community
Numerous opportunities for career growth and promotion within the company
Every team member can submit creative ideas that has an impact on the business

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