Assistant Merchant, Emerging Businesses (Hybrid)

Your Role

Victoria’s Secret &amp Co is looking for an Assistant Merchant to join the team. This role will support the strategy of the merchandise assortment through flawless execution for our Emerging Businesses portfolio. This person is a highly curious, passionate, and collaborative individual.

Why You Belong Here

At Victoria’s Secret &amp Co, 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

Know the Product

• Drive accuracy of product detail through excellent execution and management of assortment documentation and communication
• Deliver consistent and accurate line plans, sign requests, product information, and assortment details
• Accountable for style set up in system and communicating with project management partners for new development within assortment
• Assist in key meeting preparation with sample management and deck preparation
• Identify and deliver marketing/visual strategy and sales education/store operations communications
• Support in delivering financial objectives and maximizing volume and profit by leveraging intuitive insights when building seasonal strategies
• Own the accuracy of samples as well as the physical samples across multiple seasons
• Manage digital/e-commerce photo sample process and shot list execution
• Participate in seasonal hind-sighting process by sharing customer insights and product rankings
• Able to identify white space product ideas and key trends

Know the Business

• Prepare and analyze style selling reporting on a weekly basis to influence business decisions
• Be in stores on a weekly basis to gain customer feedback and business insights to influence business recommendations
• Share customer insights and business recommendations in cross-functional forums

Know the Customer

• Engage in competitive patterning to understand the current market trends and influence product strategy
• Conduct customer surveys and focus groups in stores to inform product design decisions
• Identify product opportunities based on intimate knowledge of competitive landscape

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