Ecommerce Merchandiser Emea

**Who We Are**
- Fossil is on a mission to create great watches, jewelry, handbags, small leather goods and wearables by investing in technology and long-term value creation. We do this by living into our core values - Authenticity, Grit, Curiosity, Humor, and Impact - each and every day, continually powered by purpose and our people. We thrive on diversity, innovation, uniqueness, and inclusion.
- **Will you join us?**

**Make An Impact**

As part of the European eCommerce team and reporting to the Head of DTC eCommerce EMEA, you will be responsible for developing merchandising and promotional strategy for all the DTC brands’ sites. This role will support maximizing business growth, maintaining a strong brand identity and improving customer experience by identifying opportunities through analysing website KPIs and merchandising performance.

**Your impact**
- Responsible for conducting in depth analysis of merchandising performance and trends, and providing business recommendations on assortment, pricing, promotional planning and online customer experience
- Develop promotional and merchandising strategies considering business needs and effectively communicate to cross-functional teams. Additionally, summarize promotions and merchandise performance and key learnings related to the business (i.e. assortment, pricing/discount, profitability)
- Create marketing and promotional assortments list to support promotional and campaign plans and secure approval from all key stakeholders
- Review weekly bestsellers reports and business recaps together with the eCom Content Merchandise team to develop actionable merchandising initiatives to improve performance: Increase conversion and average order value through online merchandise management of bestsellers, product promotions, up-sell and cross-sell opportunities
- Communicate merchandising initiatives to cross-functional teams such as Social Media and Digital Marketing to ensure cross channel alignment and optimal merchandising selection for the campaigns
- Work closely with the eCom Content Merchandise team with the goal of improving sales, conversion, and customer experience as it relates to site content, taxonomy, on-site search and product sorting
- Partner with Regional Merchs and eCom Planning teams to optimize assortments: inventory planning and forecast, promotional lists, future product development opportunities and secure monthly contracts to reserve inventory at all times
- Understand competitive landscape and make recommendations for online merchandising and content improvements

**Who you are**
- Ideally +3 years of work experience in similar role in merchandising management, buying and/or planning with preference in eCommerce / Retail landscape
- Previous experience working in Fashion preferred
- Strong analytical and financial skills
- Experience with Salesforce Commerce Cloud and Google Analytics a plus
- Strong Excel and SAP skills required
- Self-starter who takes ownership of projects and tasks with the ability to work quickly and efficiently with an excellent eye for detail and accuracy
- Excellent organizational, multitasking and time management skills
- Collaborative and flexible work style
- Evidence of proactively having taken initiatives to improve business efficiency or performance
- Business fluent in English, any other European language is an asset

We are looking for people who embody our core values;
- **Authenticity**, we are all in with our unique selves. Everyone is different at Fossil and we love it
- **Grit**, we push through, we bounce back, and we set our sights on the prize and go after it.
- **Curiosity**, we ask what if? What's next?
- **Sense of humor**, we don't take ourselves too seriously. Yeah, seriously.
- **Making an Impact** we go big. We perform. We make a difference.
- ** What we offer**
- Flexible working hours, hybrid working model
- Trainings and individual development
- Paid time off: volunteer hours
- Employee discounts

What does our recruitment process look like?

1. Once you have applied, we will have a look at your CV.
2. If your experience matches what we are looking for, you will be invited to complete a first automated video interview using Cammio. Cammio is a video interviewing platform, you can complete your interview on your own, anytime that works for you.
3. If you ace your video interview, you will be invited to a personal interview, virtually or face-to-face.

**Life is Short, Work Somewhere Awesome**
- Don’t live in Switzerland but interested in this role? With this position, you have the opportunity to work from any country where we conduct our operations. This includes Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. How does that sound?_

**Job Status**
- Full Time

**Department**
- eCommerce