Senior Merchandise Executive

Role purpose

Inventory and daily operations

• Build annual and monthly online stock plans from sales budgets, converting sales value into units and accounting for returns.
• Match demand with planned stock, flag shortfalls, review allocations against buy plans, and set category quantity limits.
• Adjust allocations to demand and sales velocity, replenish fast sellers, review inventory cover and stock age, and plan markdowns and clearance with margin impact quantified.
• Run daily stock routines and move deliveries through receiving, photography, content, quality checks, and activation.
• Track live product options, coordinate weekly UAE-to-Saudi stock transfers, resolve discrepancies, and maintain stock, aging, and launch trackers.

Brand drops and consignment

• Review incoming stock, maintain a rolling brand-drop calendar, prioritize brands with options and stock ready, and coordinate with inbound, studio, design, CRM, and site-content teams.
• Ensure each drop goes live on schedule with the right products, pages, and promotions, then review performance.
• Manage consignment stock from partner delivery to live listing; track stock, sales, and sell-through; enforce agreed markets and prices; and coordinate returns and reconciliations.
• Set up stock, reporting, and market rules before new consignment brand launches.

Merchandising and coordination

• Own homepage merchandising, planning entry points, banners, and links to relevant, well-stocked product listings.
• Improve homepage-to-listing and listing-to-product conversion using weekly performance reviews, sort order, ranking logic, filters, badges, and visual hierarchy.
• Maintain category-specific dynamic filters and work with search teams on query relevance, synonyms, boosts, and pinned results.
• Monitor low-visibility products and the discovery funnel from homepage through cart; recommend actions to address exposure and drop-off.
• Coordinate with buying, planning, warehouse, studio, marketing, merchandising, and operations teams, following actions through to closure.

Education and experience

• 4–6 years in retail merchandise planning, allocation, or inventory management, including at least 2 years in fashion or lifestyle e-commerce.
• GCC fashion retail experience is preferred; off-price or multi-brand retail experience is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with open-to-buy, stock planning, weeks of cover, sell-through, and markdowns.
• Consignment or concession stock experience is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, retail management, or a related field.

Skills and competencies

• Advanced Excel, including pivots, lookups, and large product-level datasets.
• Well versed in using AI tools to improve process efficiency.
• Experience with a retail merchandising system such as Oracle Retail or similar, and an allocation or replenishment tool.
• Fluent English; Arabic is a plus.

Success measures