Speed-To-Market Merchant

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Full Time Professional Costa Mesa, CA, US

28 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

MERCHANT, SPEED TO MARKET

Z SUPPLY is an established California Women’s lifestyle apparel brand that is leading the space for casual, comfortable style. Located in the heart of Orange County, we are passionate about staying true to our roots and living a life of good vibes in and out of the office. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Buyer to join our Buying team.

Position Title: MERCHANT, Speed to Market

Position Type:
Full Time / Salary Exempt

Reporting To:
Director of Buying

Work Type:
Hybrid - In Office 4 Days / Remote 1 Day

We are looking for a highly creative, fashion-obsessed Merchant to lead our Speed to Market eCommerce business.

This role is for someone who genuinely loves product, lives for trend discovery, and gets excited walking stores, shopping websites, scrolling social, and identifying what’s next before everyone else does. You have strong merchant instincts, a strong point of view on women’s fashion, an exceptional eye for product, and the ability to translate emerging trends into commercially successful assortments. You are constantly shopping—whether in stores, online, on social media, or while traveling—and have a natural curiosity about product, brands, and consumer behavior.

As the merchant leader, you will drive product direction, development, and buying strategy from concept through customer delivery. Working closely with Design, Planning, Production and eCommerce partners, you will help shape the product vision while ensuring strong financial performance.

This is a highly influential role for a merchant who loves operating at the intersection of fashion, customer insight, and business strategy.

• Drive the product vision, assortment strategy, and buying for the Speed-to-Market eCommerce business.
• Identify emerging trends, white-space opportunities, and customer demand signals to bring fashion-right product to market quickly and effectively.
• Partner closely with the SMU Design team to influence product concepts, silhouettes, fabrications, colors, and key seasonal trends.
• Serve as the voice of the customer, translating market insights, customer data and shopping behaviors into compelling product opportunities.
• Build and manage assortments that deliver a strong point of view while achieving sales, margin, and inventory goals.
• Analyze business performance and react quickly to trends, opportunities, and risks.
• Partner with Planning to manage OTB, inventory investments, and in-season opportunities.
• Shop the market relentlessly, monitoring competitors, contemporary brands, luxury brands, emerging labels, social trends, influencers, and consumer behavior.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to bring product to market with speed, quality, and profitability.
• Drive category performance through a combination of trend intuition, customer understanding, and data-driven decision making.

• 5 to 8 years of buying, merchandising, or product development experience in women’s apparel.
• Experience with in premium contemporary brands or multi-brand fashion retailer strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of women’s fashion trends, the contemporary marketplace, and the competitive landscape.
• A true merchant and shopper at heart with a passion for product and a strong eye for emerging trends.
• Proven success developing and buying trend-driven assortments that resonate with customers.
• Strong understanding of retail math, inventory…