Sr. Associate - Specialty Retail Brands; SRB Curated Merchant

Position: Sr. Associate - Specialty Retail Brands (SRB) Curated Merchant
Senior Associate - SRB Curated Merchant

Specialty Retail Brands (All Modern, Birch Lane, Joss & Main):
Wayfair's Specialty Retail Brands target the $60B specialty furniture market and are incremental to Wayfair LLC. These brands provide a tightly curated assortment of highly stylish and elevated quality products for the style-obsessed specialty customer.

What You'll Do

As Curated Merchandising Lead, you are responsible for optimizing product assortment and presentation in our physical retail stores. This role acts as a crucial liaison between merchants, planning & allocation (P&A), visual merchandising, and store teams, ensuring seamless execution of merchandising strategies and maximizing sales. You will manage the product lifecycle, analyze sales data, and drive store-specific improvements to enhance the customer experience.

* Drive store-specific customer experience improvements, collaborating with merchants on initiatives such as swatch programs or other localized enhancements.

* Manage and maintain the Retail Assortment Tracking Tool (RATT), ensuring data accuracy and integrity.

* Coordinate and communicate product lifecycle decisions (discontinuations, swaps, drops) between merchants, P&A, Visual Merchandising, and Store Teams.

* Collaborate with leadership and P&A to establish frameworks and targets for seasonal product additions, and mobilize teams to achieve those goals.

* Coordinate merchant input for alignment and finalization decks, as well as seasonal hindsight reports.

* Collect and synthesize feedback from store managers regarding product performance, presentation, and customer needs.

* Proactively identify and address product availability issues, collaborating with merchant teams to implement corrective actions for problematic items/suppliers.

* Contribute to signage development by providing input into creative briefs and ensuring alignment with merchandising strategies.

* Conduct planogram scans to assess product placement and identify opportunities for optimization.

* Support store flip operations and address store-specific needs related to merchandising and visual presentation.

* Serve as a liaison between stores and promotional teams, focusing on high-priority items featured in key promotional periods.

* Partner with merchants and store teams to develop and deliver product knowledge and training materials.

* Provide weekly business updates, analyzing sales data and making recommendations to merchants, visual merchandising, and P&A teams, particularly ahead of seasonal floor flips.

What You'll Need

* ~4+ years of experience within an e-commerce or corporate retail organization preferred. Preferably experience in buying/retail merchandising or retail home furnishing planning.

* A strong interest in building a career in buying and/or supplier relationship management

* A passion or knowledge of industry trends, style and product design

* Ability to understand a brand vision, aesthetic, and customer base and how to bring that to life through the product assortment

* Ability to cut data and think critically about the business; ability to understand and interpret sales and performance trends and apply learning to the business

* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and the ability to influence cross-functionally

* A personable and energetic communicator, eager to build relationships with new business partners - both internally and externally

* Ability to communicate and feel comfortable speaking directly with C-suite level suppliers from large companies

* Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once; you don't miss the details and can work autonomously and with partners to drive projects and tasks to completion

* Ability to "hit the ground running" - a self-starter capable of achieving specific target goals

In office requirements:
This is a hybrid role based out of our Boston office (4 days/week in office, 1 day/week remote)

At this time, Wayfair will not sponsor applicants for this position for the following work visas: F1-OPT, STEM OPT EAD, H-1B, H-1B1, E-3, O-1, J-1, or TN.

Benefits & Perks - US

* Full health benefits available…