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SKIMS presents an important question for brands moving from the digital to the physical world: How can they unify the retail experience for customers? Take a look at how Skims wants to utilize AI to benefit customers… Anthropologie uses Concierge by MadMobile to streamline the customer experience and modernize our approach to connecting with customers. However, each brand has to use the platform that works best for their customer. What platform will digital brands such as SKIMS use to connect to their customers? #WMMarketing #Styling #Innovation

#hiring District Manager - Omaha, Omaha, United States, fulltime #jobs #jobseekers #careers #Omahajobs #Nebraskajobs #RetailConsumerProducts Apply: https://lnkd.in/gKndTiY7 about old navyForget what you know about old-school industry rules. When you work at Old Navy, you're choosing a different path. From day one, we've been on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. Our teams make style accessible to everyone, creating high-quality, must-have fashion essentials for the whole family, with love, season after season. We opened our first store in 1994 in San Francisco and have been on a roll ever since. We cultivate a community of playful personalities that thrive in a fast-paced environment where our employees can be their most authentic selves. Here, we're family.about the roleIn this role, you will leverage your knowledge of the business to effectively execute and quickly adapt strategies to ensure operational excellence, merchandising execution, maximum productivity and profitable sales and earnings growth. You will drive high performance across all initiatives, and ensure consistency within your portfolio as measured by company goals and KPIs that drive a profitable portfolio. You will lead, develop, coach and inspire a portfolio of stores to deliver an optimal customer and employee experience. Your goal is to lead execution and support the brand and enterprise vision, ensuring your teams are delivering results and holding their teams accountable.what you'll doAll leaders are expected to become experts of the brand's selling behaviors, leading and leveraging these behaviors with every customer who walks through our doors and allowing us to provide a exceptional customer experience.Drive profitable sales through effective business analysis; identifying financial opportunities and action plans to address current business challenges and deliver desired resultsAttract, develop and fuel a talent pipeline in support of the district, region and brand talent strategyDistinguish between customer segments, with differences in needs and approaches, and understand variances in profitability and value creation potentialMaintain strong relationships and collaboration with peers, cross functional partners and Headquarter partners to leverage expertise in developing and executing strategiesResponsible for quality of services and advice in meeting business partner needsResponsible for end results of team and shares responsibility over resources, budget and adherence to policieswho you areLeadership experience overseeing district, multi-unit or high volume businessStrong business acumen and proven track record of leading, adjusting and developing business strategy to achieve profit & loss resultsKeen awareness of the marketplace inclusive of Gap Inc brands, external competitors and overall retail trendsAbility to embrace challenges, take risks, learn fast and influence change to

#hiring District Manager - Omaha, Omaha, United States, fulltime #jobs #jobseekers #careers #Omahajobs #Nebraskajobs #RetailConsumerProducts Apply: https://lnkd.in/gKndTiY7 about old navyForget what you know about old-school industry rules. When you work at Old Navy, you're choosing a different path. From day one, we've been on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. Our teams make style accessible to everyone, creating high-quality, must-have fashion essentials for the whole family, with love, season after season. We opened our first store in 1994 in San Francisco and have been on a roll ever since. We cultivate a community of playful personalities that thrive in a fast-paced environment where our employees can be their most authentic selves. Here, we're family.about the roleIn this role, you will leverage your knowledge of the business to effectively execute and quickly adapt strategies to ensure operational excellence, merchandising execution, maximum productivity and profitable sales and earnings growth. You will drive high performance across all initiatives, and ensure consistency within your portfolio as measured by company goals and KPIs that drive a profitable portfolio. You will lead, develop, coach and inspire a portfolio of stores to deliver an optimal customer and employee experience. Your goal is to lead execution and support the brand and enterprise vision, ensuring your teams are delivering results and holding their teams accountable.what you'll doAll leaders are expected to become experts of the brand's selling behaviors, leading and leveraging these behaviors with every customer who walks through our doors and allowing us to provide a exceptional customer experience.Drive profitable sales through effective business analysis; identifying financial opportunities and action plans to address current business challenges and deliver desired resultsAttract, develop and fuel a talent pipeline in support of the district, region and brand talent strategyDistinguish between customer segments, with differences in needs and approaches, and understand variances in profitability and value creation potentialMaintain strong relationships and collaboration with peers, cross functional partners and Headquarter partners to leverage expertise in developing and executing strategiesResponsible for quality of services and advice in meeting business partner needsResponsible for end results of team and shares responsibility over resources, budget and adherence to policieswho you areLeadership experience overseeing district, multi-unit or high volume businessStrong business acumen and proven track record of leading, adjusting and developing business strategy to achieve profit & loss resultsKeen awareness of the marketplace inclusive of Gap Inc brands, external competitors and overall retail trendsAbility to embrace challenges, take risks, learn fast and influence change to

#hiring Senior Director, Planning - Calvin Klein, New York City, United States, fulltime #jobs #jobseekers #careers #NewYorkCityjobs #NewYorkjobs #RetailConsumerProducts Apply: https://lnkd.in/guBfBVHq POSITION SUMMARYThe Senior Director of Planning develops, executes and communicates strategic merchandise financial plans that support the company's financial, product, and marketing objectives; responsible for driving top line financial plans from a divisional level to a department/category/Program/Hero Item level, strategically managing the business in order to maximize sales and margin, and optimizing inventory; develops and contributes to the development of Brand initiatives, and ensures that all planning activities support annual goals.PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIESCreate strategic financial plans for Omni-Channel that support the company's objectives and brand goals from a bottoms up perspectiveAt a division/department level, develop sales, gross margin, and inventory plans that support the company's profit objectives. Collaborate with direct reports in planning and the merchandising team to ensure that financial objectives align with product opportunities.Guide the planning and merchandising team, utilizing historical data and current trends, to capitalize on new opportunities, and identify risks. Understand opportunities and risks from direct reports and communicate to key business partners including merchandising, finance, marketing, visual, demand planning and brand leaders. Oversea pre-season assortment plans which support both the merchandising, build out the assortment architecture that the buying team uses to build assortments. Develop, train and lead planning team including planner and planning assistantBuild strong business relationships with Demand Planning, Wholesale Operations and Fulfillment teams to determine long range capacity planning, short and mid-range inventory needs to drive sales and GM, use demand plan to validate key program/hero item plans for OTB and Power Plan. Develop relationship to better utilize demand/fulfillment plans to support merchandise plans and identify inventory opportunities & risks. Participate in task force/ special projects with leadership contributing to broader strategic and resource planning conversations across the company. Weekly Business ManagementMeet with planner to understand weekly forecasts, category opportunities and risks, markdown recommendations, and reflowing of inventory. Ensure that all decisions are based on historical data and/or current trends and collect information to create global action plans.Present "action points" to senior management and gain consensus on business approach.Manage seasonal liabilities and delivery performance at a divisional level. Guide planner to tactically manage liabilities and drive opportunities.Owner of the monthly OTBReview 90 day forecasts with a focus on maximizing

Spending the week at High Point Market with the CITY Team! So far, we’ve had a phenomenal time, checking out new trends, meeting with our suppliers, visiting new suppliers, hanging with furniture friends in the industry and most importantly getting aligned as a team. In the efforts of continuous improvement, the merchandising and supply chain teams are really trying to understand the gaps of our existing product lineup and try to close those gaps with the products that we see or develop them with our partners if they aren’t here. It’s not easy work. So proud of this team! By the way, we bring a huge amount of people, more than most in the industry I believe. We’ve always seen the value of getting more people involved in market because it makes all of us better. A lot of our strategy here is about connecting with the team, asking them questions, sharing feedback and knowledge, bringing the new team members up to market to expose them to it, listening to everyone’s ideas for the future and so much more. We want to hone their skills as merchants, supply chain professionals, visual merchandisers, merch planners, sales professionals, etc.  A lot of real time coaching happens up here and we know the better our team is, the better our business will perform for our customers. At CITY, we’re all about continuous improvement and continuing to grow our skills and develop our craft. This is probably my 40th market and I’m still learning every time. Love coming up here because I love our industry, I love the challenge to get better and most importantly I love our team. They are so amazing oh and a lot of fun too. 😊 🔥👏🧑💻   High Point Market Authority #HighPoint CITY Furniture #merchandising #market #furniture #sales #trends #continuousimprovement #supplychain #furnituremarket #development #teamwork #growth #mindset #cityfurniture #hpmkt #cityteam