THE ROLE:

We’re looking for…

A eCommerce Site Merchandiser to assist with production of boutiques from start to finish

What you’ll accomplish…
Style Level Production Management:

• Oversee team categories and manage all production of the boutiques within them and ensure all deadlines are met in time for each Boutique launch.
• Have ownership for your work and your teams work to ensure accurate production for all styles in our boutiques and for the boutique assets.
• Be an expert in your categories by staying relevant with trends, competitors, and brands while upholding the Rue brand.
• Be knowledgeable of the performance and production history of past boutiques and apply learning’s to future boutiques.
• Support and manage your team’s weekly boutique capacity.
• Lead boutique status meetings weekly on your categories. Proactively raise concerns, issues, and recommendations within a timely manner on all boutiques to our Programming, Planning and Merchant teams.
• Be a role model for your team as well as Boutique Production as whole by upholding company core values.
• Build cross functional relationships with internal teams. Instill the importance of these relationships to your team.
• Proactively think about opportunities to innovate work-flow and production processes.
• Participate in our on-call schedule

Boutique Management:

• Act as the main liaison for your weekly boutiques by managing and filtering the flow of information between internal teams (Merchandising, Creative, Marketing, Production, Programming, Planning).
• Develop and publish info sheets that communicate the standards, assortment, brand identity and overall message for your boutiques.
• Produce all Lead Stories and top brand boutiques that are sourced for your category
• Facilitate internal and external brand kick-off meetings to initiate production needs and set expectations for our larger scale events (Creative, Timelines, Models, etc).
• Partner with our Studio Scheduling team to schedule creative impact production of your boutiques within timelines
• Perform daily walk throughs with Creative and the Studio teams to ensure Creative is executed as planned.
• Merchandise and categorize the product in your boutiques to best represent the brand and appeal to Members.
• Distribute final boutique link to internal partners for pre-launch review

People Management:

• Responsible for ensuring your direct reports are trained on team category production standards and our production systems and tools
• Review annual goals with direct reports and provide guidance on setting individual goals
• Manage/delegate daily workload of direct reports so that they are working at their capacity and flexing to support other teams as needed.
• Host team and individual meetings to enable frequent discussions around your expectations for work, as well as career growth within Rue and personal development
• Participate in company quarterly check ins (Growth First) and yearly review process through hosting quarterly check-in meetings, completing assessments, and providing management competency rating feedback
• Provide feedback on your direct reports to upper management so that they have the most accurate information when assessing team structure.

THE RIGHT FIT:
You have…

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5-7 years’ experience in a project management, e-commerce, production, retail or merchandising role

• Strong collaboration, communication and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter who is highly organized and detail-oriented, has solid project management skills and can handle multiple projects in a fast-paced environment
• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, including Word & Excel, Google Docs

ABOUT THE BOUTIQUE PRODUCTION TEAM:

You may think it’s magic when new items hit Rue La La’s site every day, but there’s more to it than what meets the eye. This behind-the-scenes team makes all of our Boutiques happen – from inputting items on the site, coordinating images and copy to reviewing boutiques to ensure perfection before launch. 11AM wouldn’t be the same without them.

ABOUT US:

Rue La La combines world-class merchandising, technology and marketing to create the most engaging and satisfying online shopping experience available. Each day, 15+ million loyal Members turn to Rue La La for everything from women, men and children's apparel and accessories to home décor and exclusive experiences. Our approach to retail brings excitement to online shopping in a way that not only strategically supports our brand partners, but also inspires our Members daily. 

This Company is an equal opportunity employer, and selects individuals best matched for the job based upon job-related qualifications regardless of race, religion, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, national origin, gender identity, genetic information, disability, pregnancy, veteran or military status or any other status or characteristic protected by law.