About the Job:
AMIRI is seeking a talented Collection Merchandising Manager to oversee Men’s. This role will hold the responsibility of both defining and executing the product merchandising strategy and ensuring seamless delivery aligned with the brand's creative direction, quality standards, and global market needs. The Collection Merchandising Manager, Men’s, plays a key role in partnering with Sales, DTC, Design Team and Production/Development department to achieve the brand’s growth ambition and profit margins for the category. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership capabilities, a global market perspective, and the ability to connect creative vision with business performance.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for developing a global product strategy for the Men’s categories assigned in line with objectives defined by the Global VP of Product & Strategic Development and aligned with the creative direction of the brand.
- Analyze market trends and evaluate the lifestyle, behavior, and spending capacity of luxury consumers to inform the product collection strategy while identifying opportunities for growth.
- Undertake competitive analysis (product mix and pricing), global sales analysis (sell-in and sell-out performance) and develop a pricing strategy aligned with the findings for the different markets.
- Develop a merchandising plan for the category, defining offer, structure, needs and opportunity along with breadth, depth, and the positioning of each relevant item.
- Support and collaborate with the Design Team in the development of collections, to find the optimal balance between design vision and commercial goals, accommodating for local regional needs.
- Partner with DTC and Wholesale department in order to identify carryover product lists, potential best sellers, and relevant mark-downs, monitor replenishment of continuative items.
- Develop collection presentations to explain the collection inspiration, direction, and relevant information to help promote sales and convey the craftsmanship of the product.
- Post sales campaign reporting: Gather and analyze sell-in comments through hind sighting and feedback from global cross-functional partners.
- Prepare and launch the sales periods: Style creation, Collection Edit, Pricing, and Photoshoot management for preparing the Le New Black ordering system.
- Construct the product mix during the showroom sales according to Image and Core Offer recommendations.
- Train the sales & retail team when collections hit the floor.
- Maintain strong collaboration with Planning, Production, and Operations to align deliveries with commercial timelines.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Minimum of 3-5 years of Merchandising or product related experience required, with at least 2 years in a managerial or leadership capacity.
- Must have knowledge of the luxury market and possess interest in designer clothing.
- Strong communication, presentation, and follow up skills required.
- Must possess strong teamwork collaboration, interpersonal communication, and excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Detail oriented with strong analytical abilities
- Strong/fluent proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) is a must
- Fluent english is required
Top Skills
What We Do
Established in 2014 by Mike Amiri, the luxury menswear and womenswear brand, AMIRI, marries refined craftsmanship with the glamor of LA’s authentic skate and street culture.
An LA native, founder Mike Amiri began his career in fashion by handcrafting unique stage pieces for iconic hard rockers such as Axl Rose and Steven Tyler. Eternally intrigued by such dark, heroic figures, his flair for tapping into this rock ‘n’ rock ethos led him to design an exclusive capsule collection for the LA-concept store, Maxfield.
Since this debut collection, Mike established a distinct design signature with his deconstructed, hand-embellished denim jeans, leather jackets, grungy flannel shirting and graphic tee-shirts — all grounded in the nostalgic touchstones of his Californian youth. Early styles, like the MX1 jeans and Bandana Buckle boots, remain the pillars of AMIRI today, and the designer’s nascent DIY sensibility has since evolved into a studied and distinct savoir-faire.
Today, AMIRI presents a collection bi-annually at Paris Fashion Week and is available from some of the most renowned retailers worldwide, such as Barneys, Bergdorf Goodman in New York, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Selfridges in London and Joyce in Hong Kong. As its global presence grows, AMIRI remains faithful to its roots: each garment is still a labor of love, cut from the finest fabrics, produced in majority in LA, and often even hand-finessed in-house. More recently, production of leathergoods and tailored suiting moved to Italy.
Since 2018, Mike Amiri has been a member of the CFDA. In 2018, he was also nominated for the Swarovski Award for Emerging Talent at the CFDA Fashion Awards and honored with the Emerging Talent Award at the Footwear News Achievement Awards. In 2019, Mike was nominated for the Menswear Designer of the Year at the CFDA Fashion Awards.
