Handbag and Jewelry Merchant

The role

This role focuses on the end-to-end development of emerging categories including Handbags, Swim, and Jewelry. You will drive growth through seasonal lineplans, omni-channel buying, trend analysis, and product strategies.

What you will do

• Own the seasonal line plan including style count, SKU architecture, color/material strategy, and price tiering
• Manage pricing architecture including margin targets and competitive positioning
• Analyze daily, weekly, and seasonal performance by style and SKU
• Translate market insights into line evolution
• Partner with Design, Product Development, Materials, and Production teams
• Collaborate with Planning on buy depth, open-to-buy alignment, and inventory strategy
• Work with Wholesale to shape channel-right assortments
• Partner with Marketing and Customer teams to drive launch visibility

Required qualifications

• 4–7 years of merchandising experience
• Comfortable giving honest, direct feedback
• Fluency in retail math
• Comfort owning sales, margin, and inventory outcomes
• Advanced Excel proficiency including experience modeling and analyzing inventory levels
• Ability to deal successfully with the complexities of an expanding organization and build process where needed
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• managing accessories, swim, jewelry, or other emerging categories

Benefits

• Employer-sponsored private medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and company holidays
• Retirement planning support with option to invest in Environmental Social Governance-aligned funds
• Fertility care support through Carrot
• Up to $5,000 USD reimbursement for related fertility expenses after 1 year of employment
• Annual donations to community efforts
• Clothing discount
• Culture events like annual Ref Values week and Volunteer Time Off

About the company

Reformation is a mission-based company with offices in LA, NYC and London, as well as a global retail team.