Senior Associate Merchant – Perigold

Senior Associate Merchant – Perigold (Tabletop, Kitchen & Small Electrics)

Perigold is Wayfair's destination for luxury home, bringing together the world's most prestigious brands with an elevated, design-forward shopping experience. We inspire customers with beautifully curated assortments across furniture, décor, tabletop, kitchen, and more – online and in our Perigold Physical Retail stores.

We are seeking a Senior Associate Merchant to support the Tabletop, Kitchen & Small Electrics category for Perigold, with a primary focus on our Perigold Physical Retail business. This role will help drive a high-performing assortment that reflects Perigold's elevated aesthetic, delivers a best-in-class in-store experience, and supports profitable growth.

You will be a key operator for the business: pulling and synthesizing data, helping to build and maintain assortments, managing day-to-day vendor and cross-functional workflows, and supporting execution of seasonal flips and key launches. You'll combine strong analytical skills with curiosity for product, trend awareness, and a "roll-up-your-sleeves" mindset in a fast-moving, start-up-like retail environment.

• Category & Assortment Support
  • Partner to execute the assortment for Perigold Tabletop, Kitchen & Small Electrics in Physical Retail.
  • Pull and analyze weekly and monthly category performance (e.g., sales, margin, sell-through, productivity per square foot) and distill insights and recommendations.
  • Help identify assortment gaps, redundancies, and white-space opportunities across brands, price points, styles, and use-cases.
  • Maintain core assortment tools and trackers (assortment lists, launch calendars, swap/drop trackers) with a high degree of accuracy.
• Brand, Aesthetic & Customer Experience
  • Ensure product selections support Perigold's brand standards for quality, design, and luxury positioning
  • Support Visual Merchandising and the Merchant by providing assortment context, product details, and prioritization inputs for floor sets and planograms.
  • Monitor competitive and trend landscapes in tabletop, kitchen, and small electrics and share insights with the team to keep the assortment fresh and relevant.
• Vendor & Cross-Functional Coordination
  • Act as a day-to-day point of contact for a subset of vendors and support larger strategic initiatives related to your category
  • Partner with Planning & Allocation (P&A) on data pulls, forecast inputs, and inventory or productivity deep dives.
  • Partner with Visual Merchandising on merchandising in store - product swaps, flips, and other changes impacting the sales floor.
• Operational Excellence & Execution
  • Own or co-own executional work streams tied to seasonal flips, new brand or product launches, and promotional events (e.g., timelines, inputs, QA).
  • Maintain clean, accurate product and assortment data across systems and documentation.
  • Proactively flag risks and opportunities (e.g., underperformers, out-of-stocks, late launches) and propose action plans with the Merchant and P&A.
  • Help refine and document processes, templates, and best practices as Perigold Physical Retail scales.
• Growth & Development
  • Build deep familiarity with the category, customer, and competitive set, with a clear growth path toward owning a category as a Merchant.
  • Seek and incorporate feedback from your manager, peers, and cross-functional partners; contribute to a "we win together" culture on the team.

In your first 6–12 months, success will look like:

• Building strong command of the Perigold Tabletop, Kitchen & Small Electrics assortment, key vendors, and core performance drivers.
• Consistently delivering accurate, timely reporting and insights that materially inform assortment, pricing, and inventory decisions.
• Taking full ownership of defined work streams (e.g., specific vendor sets, sub-categories, or seasonal projects) with limited oversight.
• Being a highly reliable cross-functional partner to P&A, Visual Merchandising, Store Operations, and key vendors.
• Demonstrating growth toward Merchant-level ownership, judgment, and strategic thinking while embodying Wayfair's values in your day-to-day work.

What You'll Need

• Experience or interest in merchandising,…