Fashion Merchandising Coordinator Jobs

Location: Toronto, ON – CHANEL

Reports to: Merchandising Manager

Contract: Full-time and Permanent

Your role @ Chanel:

The Merchandising Team is responsible for optimizing the sales of the company through planning and stock management while adhering to and driving product strategy and the image of the Brand. The other key part of the department is to ensure the retail teams and boutiques feel supported and have a voice when it comes to product and that management teams are made aware of key product performances and developments.

Your role as Fashion Merchandising Coordinator in managing the Canadian business in your relevant Fashion category is to build expert knowledge in the area to analyze, translate and convey key messages to influence our buyers and drive the business.

You will need to use your analytic and creative skill sets to interpret and present data to clearly convey KPI Updates, strategy, and product learnings to a wide range of stakeholders.

To be effective in your job you will need to work closely with a variety of teams both in the corporate office both in Canada and UK, leading the communication with boutiques to ensure key information is cascaded and business is optimized.

What impact you can create at Chanel:

• Use your expertise and analysis to build the buying strategy for Canada;
• Monitor deliveries; work closely with supply chain in Paris, and share updates with Boutiques and Management;
• Build good working relationships with Boutique staff to gather qualitative feedback to better understand the needs of the business;
• Analyze performance to improve future performance, identifying and creating action plans to improve the business where necessary;
• Provide support on stock levels for Boutique Openings, events and refurbishments;
• Ensure product is moved around the business to optimize sales;
• Deal with adhoc queries and requests relating to product and stock from Fashion Boutiques.
• Forecast accurate levels of reorders to support the business while adhering to company strategy and budgets;
• Direct VM to ensure relevant exposure of products;
• Use your knowledge in your field to feed into financial sales planning cycles;
• Direct training to ensure product messages reach Boutique Staff;
• Management of markdowns and obsolete stock;
• Make informed strategic decisions on when to launch products to best meet the business needs;
• Use your knowledge to lead the buyers through the buys adhering and feeding into the global product strategy;
• Keep up with competitor activities and positioning;
• Build reports to feed information on products and sales trends to Boutique Managers and Management;

What you can bring to the role:

• A self-motivated, independent thinker with lots of initiative.
• Proactiveness.
• A commitment to self-learning and the ability to inspire others on the way.
• Positivity, curiosity and ready to challenge the status quo.
• Knowledge of the industry and our competitors.
• Understanding of Power BI.
• Experience in product and working with creatives.

You are energized by:

• Product strategy.
• Coordination between teams.
• Optimization of sales through merchandising.
• Data analysis.
• Stock management.

What you would gain from this experience:

• Delivery of excellence in an environment that places long term success of CHANEL and its people at its forefront.
• An inclusive approach to utilising the diverse range of personalities and competencies at CHANEL.
• An environment to express both your curiosity and capability, with the aim of creating sustainable long term personal and professional growth.

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to CHANEL.

CHANEL CANADA ULC. welcomes all applicants for this position. We are committed to fair and accessible employment practices. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates with disabilities throughout the recruitment process.