Merchandising Director

This role will drive brand elevation as well as brand desirability and maximize sales potential through strategic merchandising and creative visual merchandising for Tiffany Korea. This position requires a strategic mindset, strong analytical skills, deep market insights, and a passion for luxury jewelry retail.

Develop merchandising strategies aligned with regional and global objectives.

• Lead optimized product assortment and inventory level by store typology in collaboration with partnering global and regional functions.
• Deliver Retail communications on new product launches and major merchandising initiatives.
• Work cross-functionally with other functions to elevate the clients experience and maximize sales performance through strategic merchandising actions.
• Analyze market and competitors’ pricing positioning and share the local insights to the global team.

Project accurate product sales plans by category by channels.

• Prepare the product sales plan by category and by key collections for Retail, E-Commerce and Retail Partners for the yearly budget.
• Provide the sales forecast of the newness.
• Work closely with Demand planning for monthly estimation of detailed sales plans which leads to efficient production and inventory management plans.
• Drive effective collaboration with Inventory planning to ensure optimized inventory supply.
• Ensure consistent in-store product presentation by implementing CVM standards aligned with the global strategies.
• Manage the planning, installation and maintenance of seasonal creative campaigns.
• Lead the global alignment, budgeting and activations for pop-ups/ins events.
• Train and foster in-store CVM ambassadors to enhance the effective VM implementation.

Curate the most effective assortment for special events

• Create the event assortment in line with the business objectives.
• Secure elevated High Jewelry offers for the local High Jewelry event.
• Lead the communication with the global High Jewelry(HJ) team on the HJ performance.

Lead outstanding Team Management, Collaboration and Leadership

• Develop professional staff to be result-driven and self-starting aligned to the Tiffany competency model
• Set clear goals and performance KPIs to guide the team and encourage goal achievement.
• Foster an open communication culture within the team to create a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Drive effective cross-functional collaboration with relevant functions to align the strategic and operational objectives and to maximize the performance. (Retail, Retail Excellence, Finance, Marketing, Operations, etc)

• A passion for the luxury jewelry industry with strong merchandising knowledge, planning and analyzing skills
• Over 15 years of working experience, of which at least 2 years of senior managerial role is mandatory
• Ability to interact with flexibility and diplomacy with key stakeholders
• Highly Proficiency in English
• Bachelor Degree or equivalent

• Working experience in global luxury organization
• Jewelry & Watch industry experience
• Solid knowledge base on gemstone, jewelry and timepieces – GIA Certification is a plus