Merchant
Mejuri
Job Overview
At Mejuri, you will conceptualize, execute, and drive your category's merchandising strategy, delivering on key business revenue objectives. Your category strategies will deepen engagement with our loyal customers while expanding our reach to new audiences. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you'll leverage customer insights, market data, and performance analysis to introduce innovative, best-in-class products.
You'll possess a deep understanding of your business, proactively driving performance and meticulously monitoring category health to ensure your assortment achieves commercial viability and profitable growth. With a growth mindset and solutions-oriented approach, you'll bring a discerning eye and a passionate appreciation for beautifully crafted products
What you'll do
- Partnering with the Director, you will conceptualize and execute the strategic development of global product assortments for your owned categories, reinforcing Mejuri's leadership in the jewelry industry through thoughtful consideration of channel-specific and geographical nuances.
- Partner closely with Design and Product Development to bring innovative products to market, ensuring they elevate aesthetics, meet margin objectives, and surpass customer expectations.
- Collaborate strategically with Integrated Marketing and Visual Merchandising to create and execute customer-centric go-to-market plans that drive success.
- Partner with Merchandise Planning to negotiate seasonal investment strategies by market and channel, ensuring key initiatives and high-volume styles are effectively funded to maximize sales and meet inventory turn goals.
- Develop pricing strategies for new product launches and refine existing assortment pricing based on market analysis.
- Deliver insights from weekly sales reporting at the channel and country level, collaborating with cross-functional partners to understand performance drivers and recommend actions for sales growth.
- Manage product attributes, pricing and SKU creation.
- Act as the product authority, providing cross-functional teams with expert product insights and maintaining a strong grasp of the competitive market.
KPIs
- YoY growth in categories owned by the merchant
- Sell-through in new product launches / inventory tun
- Category level productivity
- Market share Sales performance vs. forecast for assigned categories
What you'll bring to the team
- 3-5 years of merchandising experience in a fast-paced retail or e-commerce environment, preferably in the jewelry, fashion, or luxury industry.
- Proven track record of assortment strategy development that drives revenue growth and aligns with brand positioning.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret sales data, market trends, and customer insights to inform merchandising decisions.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g., Design, Product Development, Planning, Marketing) to bring products to market successfully.
- Proficiency in retail financial metrics, including margin optimization, sell-through rates, inventory turn, and demand planning.
- Experience in pricing strategy development, including competitive analysis and margin management.
- Advanced Excel skills and familiarity with merchandising or planning systems (e.g., ERP, PLM, or BI tools).
- Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at various levels.
- Passion for the fashion/jewelry industry and obsessed with product
- Personally driven with a strong sense of urgency
- A minimum of three weeks vacation, plus personal days and three religious observance days.
- A hybrid work model for all corporate roles.
- ‘Mejuri Passport’ which allows employees who meet specific criteria to work in other locations for one month per year.
- Comprehensive medical and dental benefits, including mental health coverage, and generous personal and sick days for our full-time employees. We also offer bereavement leave, including miscarriage and stillbirth support.
- Parental leave salary top-up of up to 80%, as well as a personalized return-to-work transition and accommodation plan for full-time employees.
- Semi-annual performance reviews.
- A generous product discount!
This position requires in office work 3 days a week and remote work 2 days a week
Our office is location on Bay/Bloor, Toronto.
Along with our central mission and vision, we have guiding values that set the tone for where we’re heading and how we work together. These values are behaviors that form our shared beliefs and approach to how we wish to work together at Mejuri, regardless of role, level, and work location. Our 8 core values help drive our decision making when we are cross collaborating, redefining luxury, and creating a sense of commitment and inclusion to help shape our company culture.
Our values are:
FIND A WAY | We break down problems into manageable steps, explore creative solutions daily, learn from failure, and adapt quickly
RAISE THE BAR | We share constructive feedback openly, continuously improve personal and team performance, collaborate and challenge for better outcomes
CUSTOMER OBSESSED | We actively listen to customer feedback, make decisions that impact customers positively, continuously refine product, service, or customer interactions
EMPOWERED OWNERS | We proactively address cross team challenges, willingly tackle any task big or small, take initiative, and lead by example
JUST DO IT | We make informed decision quickly, encourage experimentation and learning, encourage thoughtful risk taking, embrace change, and stay adaptable
HUMILITY | We acknowledge team contributions before self, acknowledge and learn from mistakes, maintain an open and receptive mindset, and promote a respectful work environment
CURIOSITY | We seek out new challenges daily, ask questions to understand deeply, reimagine and innovate to drive progress
DRIVE RESULTS | set clear goals and prioritize tasks, focus on high impact activities daily, monitor progress through clear metrics, stay persistent and solution orientated