Merchant, PINK Bras

At Victoria’s Secret & Co, you’ll join a world-leading specialty retail brand recognized globally for innovation and excellence in lingerie and fashion. You’ll work alongside industry leaders to set the standard for what a retail brand can achieve, placing customers at the center of everything we do to create products and experiences that bring them joy.

We believe everyone deserves a place where they truly belong. We celebrate individuality and know that your passion, experience, and unique perspective strengthen our team and business. Here, you’ll be empowered to perform, grow, and engage through unmatched opportunities to develop your skills, gain real‑world experience, and learn from the best in the business.

The Merchant helps to develop and drive a category of business’s strategies and seasonal assortment plans based upon a detailed knowledge of the brand, intimate understanding of the customer, and studied appreciation of the competition and overall market place. They critically evaluate the assortment and reacts to in-season performance/trends and translates to future seasons. The Merchant demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of the connection between financial strategies and related merchandise objectives.

The position collaborates directly with various cross functional teams including but not limited to design, merchandise planning, demand & deployment, production, stores operations, and visual presentation to ensure execution of the accurate brand vision and category goals. The Merchant must possess strong leadership skills as they are ultimately responsible for driving cross‑functional communication and for motivating the team to be customer‑focused, curious, and team oriented in their work.

The Merchant supports the leadership team in prioritizing workload and plays a supportive role in training merchandising talent within the company. This role owns at least one category of business.

• Lead and demonstrate strong cross‑functional partnerships with clear and accurate communication while demonstrating company values
• Lead and influence solutions‑based thinking, conflict resolution and productive dialogue in cross functional and merchandising meetings
• Begin to develop leadership presence and cast positive leadership shadow
• Demonstrate ability to layer strategic thinking and business ownership on top of business execution
• Consistently react with urgency while comprehending overall strategy

• Consistently demonstrate an ability to turn customer insight into actionable recommendations as it relates to assortment strategy
• Translate and apply customer and competitive patterning insights into actions that will drive the business and assortment forward
• Remain curious about the customer to better understand their current demands and seek to learn more through store travel and taking on the customer lens
• Partner across merchandising categories to connect dots on larger, total brand trends and patterns
• Understand the customer’s lifestyle by staying on top of trends, social media, and pop culture as it specifically relates to the customer, in stores or wherever they are
• Drive customer insight strategy via the internal teams and external focus groups

• Responsible for executing the seasonal financial plan into a product assortment while preserving brand position and brand image
• Consistently demonstrate an ability to turn product insight into actionable recommendations as it relates to assortment strategy and influence the evolution of potential new categories to fill customers’ needs
• Accountable for key meeting prep with sample availability, style & color ranking, deck preparation, and ad hoc requests and analysis, always staying…