Associate Merchant, .ca

**Job Type**: Full Time
**Function**: Merchandising
**Address**:160 Bloor Street East, 11th Floor, Toronto, ON
**Working Model**:Hybrid

At Sephora Canada, we’re passionate about finding and sharing beauty in the world. Our constant innovation, our ability to see and lead trends, and our focus on providing an outstanding customer experience make us the most-loved beauty community and top of mind for every Canadian. We find beauty in our communities, in our differences, our experiences, and in the spirit of our employees.
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**ABOUT THE TEAM**

We partner with luxury brands who create the products our clients crave, sometimes even before they know it. Merchandising at Sephora is all about defining what beauty means for Canadians today... and tomorrow. Our team of trendsetters and brand builders constantly creates original brands, develops new product categories and starts trends. Some of next season’s most in-demand items may not even exist yet, but you’ll see them here first Supporting our in-store offerings is a strong online presence. There, our Digital Dot.CA Merchandising team ensures that, however our clients connect with Sephora, they always find the newest and most exciting products.

**WHAT YOU'LL DO**

As the Associate Merchant, Sephora.ca, you will assist the DotCa Merchant in developing and implementing online category, brand & product merchandising strategies that serve as a basis for achieving financial sales objectives. You will perform DotCa merchant responsibilities for a select group of brands (but still work on a larger subset of brands beyond that group). You will also demonstrate leadership potential to manage category projects and brand businesses.
- Assist with overall business strategy
- Maintain collaborative and proactive relationship with brands, retail merchant & inventory counterparts, to drive cross channel alignment & sales optimization for a subset of brands
- Consistently analyze the online business, providing insights to direct partners, retail merchants & brands. Make timely adjustments to online merchandising in order to optimize sales. Provide analysis for weekly & monthly performance recaps and share recaps with upper level management
- Source and plan brand promotional activity around product launch strategies and key core initiatives.
- Run Ad hoc reporting and projects to drive category and brand business
- Brand management
- Proactively manage relationships with brand partners to develop strong growth plans. Communicate regularly with brands and retail merchant counterparts on business related issues (launch plans, business updates, exposures, etc.)
- Manage DotCa product assortments, collaborating with brand partners to source what is needed to differentiate and drive the online business. Provide assortment/SKU analysis to drive decisions
- Responsible for new brand set up and ongoing brand page updates, ensuring optimal articulation/messaging, visual presentation and navigation of the brand story
- Product marketing, site merchandising & content
- Work with senior merchant on strategic placements across the entire site for your category while championing own subset of brands; determine what to feature and where
- Partner with coordinator to set up products online, communicating with brands to gather product comps and assets. Ensure copy/messaging, video & images are optimized. Assign strategic & accurate attribution/refinements to each product
- Work with product & content production teams daily for onsite maintenance & functionality including the QA process
- Assist Sr. merchant with category content projects for the site that will increase traffic, conversion and sales. Understand web analytics data to help inform decisions
- Inventory & Planning
- Partner closely with the Inventory team pre-season to help forecast newness, DotCa exclusives, limited edition & seasonal buys
- Participate in DotCa open-to-buy meetings for in-season planning
- Ensure all featured products in marketing have sufficient inventory to support activity
- Review SKU productivity bi-annually to optimize online assortment
- Demonstrate our Sephora values of Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative.

**WHAT YOU’LL BRING**
- You have a minimum of 4 years’ experience in buying/merchandising
- You are well versed in the world of E-Commerce and/or Direct-to-Consumer merchandising
- You love product (beauty is your jam), understand consumer trends and behaviour, and inspire fearlessness in everything that you do
- You have a Bachelor’s degree or college diploma in retail management or a related field
- You're curious, a go-getter, take ownership and responsibility for your work
- You love tackling problems and using your analytical skills to find solutions.
- You have an entrepreneurial spirit, thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, and relish in working collaboratively with cross-functional groups.