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Why join us?

At Design Within Reach, home comes first. We believe in creating and sourcing pieces that move with you and are meant to be enjoyed over a lifetime - from home to home, generation to generation. For us, that means exceptionally crafted, built-to-last, and beautifully designed furnishings.

Our purpose is to design for the good of humankind. It's the ideal we strive toward each day in everything we do. Being a part of Design Within Reach means being a part of something larger than your work team, or even your brand. We are redefining modern for the 21st century. And our success allows Design Within Reach to support causes that align with our values, so we can build a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful future for everyone.

About this opportunity:

As a key member of the Design Within Reach Merchandising team, your role as Merchant is to develop seasonal assortment strategies and curate a disruptive and successful product assortment that represents the tenants of the Design Within Reach brand while increasing sales and achieving profit goals.

What you'll do:

• Manage complex vendor portfolio, including identifying and onboarding new vendors and leading existing vendor relationships while exploring opportunities for growth and increased profitability.

• Think big and bold. Conduct regular strategic product reviews to maximize and expand the assortment.

• Bring an entrepreneurial mindset, with the customer centered at the core of assortment decisions.

• Identify and implement process improvements.

• Assess sales potential for new product introductions, weighing input from Product Development, Inventory, and Marketing counterparts, and work with Creative Director to establish determination of aesthetic fit.

• Draft and build design briefs to fill assortment and market needs.

• In-depth review of product samples and product development prototypes to confirm proposed introductions. Meet all DWR standards for: build quality, ease of assembly, packaging standards, comfort, and value.

• Analyze product performance developing merchandising strategies to achieve revenue and margin goals.

• Work with Inventory planners to establish annual volume projections and initial buy for new product introductions.

• Build and present seasonal strategic business plan, with Product Development and Inventory counterparts, to department heads in quarterly planning meetings.

• Maintain acute awareness of competitive landscape, always looking for opportunities to keep the assortment fresh.

• Provide relevant product knowledge and sales information to the sales team through regularly occurring product training presentations.

• Proof catalog, web, and several other marketing materials to ensure content is appropriate and accurate and the designer and manufacturer story is conveyed effectively and factually.

• Monitor product return levels, presenting actions taken to resolve any issues during quarterly returns meeting.

• Visit DWR studio locations to understand client and AE feedback and ensure product presentation meets visual standards.Work with Visual Merchandising team to address inconsistencies with the DWR visual directive.

• Review web merchandising and product sort priority and adjust to support company priorities.

• Manage workload and daily activities of Assistant and Associate Merchant.

• Travel to review prototypes, visit trade shows, and source new products.

Does this sound like you?:

This might be you if you have the following skills.

• 5+ years buying experience
• Passion for modern design
• 4 year college degree or equivalent experience
• Digital buying experience
• Strong negotiation skills
• Show strong initiative and maintain a sense of pride over work results
• Passionate about all things product and modern design

Who We Hire?

Simply put, we hire qualified applicants representing a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. Design Within Reach is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veterans from every branch of military service, and more. Here, you can bring your whole self to work. We're committed to equal opportunity employment, including veterans and people with disabilities.

MillerKnoll complies with applicable disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MillerKnoll Talent Acquisition at

Job Summary

Responsible for executing to financial objectives for a product category or categories. Implement the operational plan and work with key merchandising and field resources to drive item selection and pricing for a category or categories. Responsible for item selection within a category or sub-category. Work with respective merchandising resources to implement the appropriate category and supplier strategy.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities, and Key Accountabilities

• Utilizes the key components of business drivers (e.g. historical performance, industry/competitive landscape, consumer identification, etc.) to support category sales growth.
• Executes to the financial targets for a category and influences assortment guidelines and parameters. Executes pricing strategy.
• Supports supplier strategy (e.g. import vs. domestic, national vs. local, branded vs. proprietary).
• Supports the business review process. Influences which items to send to product line review; when new products should be included in the assortment mix; leverages supplier relationships to optimize assortment; and works with key support functions to ensure completion.
• Influences supplier strategy and executes the supplier portfolio. Researches new product lines and continuously shops for competitive prices.
• Makes decisions regarding visual representation of categories in all marketing materials.
• Collaborates with purchasing and operations on forecasting and supply chain set-up for all current and new categories.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable regulations from governing agencies, including Federal and State Import/Export Regulations. Ensures compliance with internal Environmental Health and Safety Policies and Procedures.

Nature and Scope

• Experience provides solutions.
• Ensures that work is performed consistently with company policies and procedures.
• Leads a group or team of support, craft, or lower level professional associates.

Work Environment

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Education and Experience

• Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 5+ years of experience in a related field. May require certification. Advanced degree may offset less experience in some disciplines.

The Merchant II will be responsible for driving revenue and margin growth by leveraging a strong analytical and consumer-focused skillset to deliver strategic product recommendations. This individual will identify assortment gaps, overlaps, and opportunities to improve inventory efficiency and maximize margin across key omni-channel marketplace accounts within the home textile category. This Merchant role requires the ability to build long-term assortment strategies while also executing short-term actions that support company growth.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serves as the category owner from a merchandising standpoint across all accounts (Target, Walmart, Clubs, etc.) and brands (Sealy, Tempur-Pedic, AllerEase).
• Understands the competitive landscape, account assortments, visual merchandising, internal assortment, and customer needs to ensure the right product is delivered to the right place at the right time.
• Builds and maintains strong cross-functional relationships with Product Development, Sales, Analysts, and Marketing; acts as the global category voice for American Textile Company on product, trends, and opportunities.
• Develops informed, consumer-first product assortments and strategies across customer, category, brand, and channel to maximize omni-channel consumption.
• Analyzes business performance to identify underperforming and top-performing items; proactively recommends new opportunities, replacements, or new development.
• Maintains and creates merchandising processes, reports, and tools at the category level to support ongoing, efficient recommendations.
• Assists in identifying trends, white space, and opportunities for bi-annual Home Textile Market Week to improve adoption of showcased product development.
• Balances brand, account, and stakeholder interests that impact assortment recommendations and decisions.
• Leverages data across sales, margin, inventory, and productivitypartnering with cross-functional teamsto deliver insights and data-driven recommendations.
• Contributes to the development of Sales & Marketing materials that explain and sell assortment strategies, highlight competitive analysis, and reinforce American Textile Company's leadership in the home textile category.

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in merchandising, marketing, business administration or related field
• Minimum of 4+ years of relevant experience in merchandising, buying or retail
• Ability to take a customer-first approach with a strong understanding of retail merchandising fundamentals (retail math, category management, merchandising org structures, and processes)
• Brings a solution-oriented approach with the ability to solve complex challenges
• Demonstrates strong communication and cross-functional partnership skills with the ability to sell and influence recommendations and ideas
• Applies effective project management skills with a clear ability to drive initiatives from start to finish
• Demonstrates the confidence and judgment to set boundaries and say "no" when appropriate
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks and assignments to meet deadlines; experience in a fast-paced retail environment is a plus
• Strong presentation skills with a proven ability to influence internal and external partners and customers
• Ability to extract and analyze data effectively, including consumer research and sales performance data
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

Physical Demands:

• Ability to withstand prolonged periods sitting at a desk
• Frequent use of upper extremities to perform keyboard functions and work on a computer
• Ability to occasionally stand/walk

Equal Opportunity Employer

• Identify and rapidly react to trends in weekly sales reports and seasonal hindsight reports
• Create seasonal line plans to communicate product needs cross functionally and foster innovation
• Partner with marketing to execute seasonal stories through all forms of media and sales channels
• Drive quality sourcing, healthy margins, and on time deliveries in partnership with production
• Act as the cross-functional liaison lead to execute seasonal assortments from concept through commercialization
• Establish and maintain a reputation of credibility, integrity, and responsiveness with all internal and external partners
• Manage and mentors team of Associates and Assistants
• Ensure all critical deadlines are met to maintain flexibility and maximize profitability
• Present seasonal strategies to all sales divisions and ensures product needs are met
• Understand key trends in apparel, technology, and store/web merchandising
• Drive customer engagement through product testing, market research, and interaction
• Own executing product rankings, store tiering/segmentation, and legitimizing SKU counts
• Partner with planning team to align on seasonal buy plans, allocation strategies, and markdowns

• 5+ years of Merchandising or related experience required
• Merchant planner business acumen
• Previous management experience preferred
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills; comprehensive understanding of retail math*
• Team-oriented with ability to interact with partners across the organization at all levels
• Systems-savvy
• Must have strong Excel skills (Pivot Tables, vLook Ups, etc.)
• Strong listening, written and oral communication skills required
• Outstanding attention to detail and accuracy required
• Excellent product sensibility and ability to merchandise assortments in an appealing way
• Ability to react quickly with a strong sense of urgency
• Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities
• Able to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
• Additional experience including combination of Buying, Planning, Product Development, & Marketing experiences
• Experience in customer and trend direction to inform both assortment strategy, and decision making
• Team-oriented with the ability to interact with partners across the organization at all levels

• We have a fun-spirited entrepreneurial culture filled with truly "good" people
• We offer a generous employee discount so you can rep our lifestyle on-and-off the boat
• We offer a competitive salary package, 401-K, commuter benefits, and paid-family leave, health savings, flex spending accounts, life & disability insurance
• We have an onsite gym as well as health & financial wellness programs to keep you active
• We offer 2 summer Fridays to take off in addition to a competitive vacation policy & holiday calendar

Job Summary

Responsible for establishing merchandising objectives for a category or categories of merchandise. Drive the financial planning process and manage the process from recommending targets to pricing optimization. Drive the assortment planning process, from business performance review to supplier negotiations. Create operational plans used in SOAR execution. Oversee the supplier management strategy and works to source and rationalize suppliers to meet business needs. Responsible for approximately $150 million in business dollars.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities, and Key Accountabilities

• Acts as primary decision maker on merchandising and finance operational issues. Utilizes current market data (industry/competitive) to drive merchandising strategy. Determines consumers to target for a specific category and collaboratively decides the strategic direction of the business segment.

• Executes and manages visual merchandising, new concept development, marketing / catalog, vendor services, inventory management, and supply chain issues.

• Responsible for developing and executing plan to meet annual financial goals which include Sales Performance, Category Profitability and Category Inventory Productivity.

• Makes decisions and manages supplier strategy (e.g. import vs. domestic, national vs. proprietary). Reviews the supplier portfolio on a ongoing basis to ensure suppliers maintain the bandwidth to support changing needs. Works with key functions to source new suppliers.

• Manages projects within a business function (e.g. capital). Acts as the project champion and assists with setting the overall direction and defining the measures of success.

Nature and Scope

• Solutions require analysis and investigation.

• Achieves planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, business principles, and practical experience.

• Manages a group or team of professional individual contributors and/or indirectly supervises support staff.

Work Environment

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Education and Experience

• Typically requires BS/BA in a related discipline. Generally 7+ years of experience in a related field. May require certification. Advanced degree may offset less experience in some disciplines.

Our Goals for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We are committed to creating a culture that promotes equity, respect, and advocacy for every HD Supply associate. We value the diversity of our people.

Equal Employment Opportunity

HD Supply is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

HD Supply is an Equal Opportunity Minority/Female/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veteran and Affirmative Action Employer. HD Supply considers for employment and hires qualified candidates without regard to age, race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law.

Staples is business to business. You’re what binds us together.

Our merchandising team aims to deliver the best value and selection to our customers through products, services and solutions all centered around our customers’ needs. We are driven by customer insights and analytics to bring products and solutions to market seamlessly. We are inclusive, well-rounded professionals who have deep experience in buying, selling, negotiating, operations, design, innovation, finance and more.

What you’ll be doing :

• Own delivering sales, margin, and inventory goals.
• Leverage data insights to develop an understanding of their business, identify opportunities and gaps in the current strategy and to drive decision making.
• Ensure products are optimally represented online for all customers to create an optimal shopping experience.
• Develop deep understanding of customer needs and shopping behaviors.
• Define then accelerate emerging trends in the technology space and how our strategy should evolve based on industry, competitor, and technology trends.
• Responsible for selecting vendors, brands, and products to be sold; negotiate for lower net costs through volume incentives, rebates, advertising or promotional price support.
• Demonstrate clear ownership and knowledge of strategy and assortment, be able to communicate and answer questions of senior leadership.
• Develop plans and partner cross functionally with marketing, sales, supply chain, pricing, site merchandising and more.
• Develop deep understanding of customer needs and shopping behavior as well as upcoming trends and brands in the marketplace.
• Cross functionally collaborate with all Business Units to understand their unique customer needs and deliver an assortment and cost structure that meets those needs.
• Responsible for the P&L for assigned product categories.
• Develop strategies and execution plans across Business Units including Staples Business Inside and Outside Sales teams.

What you bring to the table :

• Ability to drive sales and margin results
• Expertise in site metrics, such as visits, conversion, AOV, frequency, engagement
• Exceptional time management, prioritization, and organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to influence at multiple levels
• Deep understanding of tactics to drive eCommerce sales and human sales force
• Demonstrated ability to build strategic partnerships (internal and external)
• Accomplished in holding a team accountable to achieve measurable results

What’s needed- Basic Qualifications :

• 6+ years' experience in buying related functions (buying/ merchandising)

What’s needed- Preferred Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• PC literate with the strong abilities in Excel
• Multiple category experience including large P&L management

We Offer :

• Inclusive culture with associate-led Business Resource Groups
• Flexible PTO (22 days) and Holiday Schedule (7 observed paid holidays)
• Online and Retail Discounts, Company Match 401(k), Physical and Mental Health Wellness programs, and more!

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