Pepper

Director

• Lead development of seasonal and annual line plans aligned with revenue and growth goals
• Own line planning execution, including styles, colorways, and sizes by category and launch window
• Balance best-sellers with newness to drive acquisition and repeat purchase
• Contribute to long-range category and assortment strategy with Founders and Executive Team
• Monitor competition, industry trends, white-space, and new category opportunities
• Lead merchandising activities in seasonal go-to-market processes, line reviews, product briefs, and launch planning
• Partner with Design on creative direction and represent commercial and customer perspectives in design decisions
• Manage the product lifecycle from concept through launch, reorder, and exit
• Develop pricing and architecture recommendations and partner on target costs and margin protection
• Plan promotions and markdowns with Ecommerce and Marketing
• Develop OTB recommendations, buy quantities, size curves, and reorder recommendations with Finance and Planning
• Track sell-through, weeks of supply, and aged inventory with Planning and S&OP
• Drive action on slow sellers and chase opportunities on winners
• Report weekly and seasonal style, category, and colorway performance
• Use sales data, returns, fit feedback, customer reviews, and surveys to shape assortments
• Present quarterly business and product strategy updates to leadership and lead quarterly all-hands product presentations
• Partner with Marketing and Ecommerce on product storytelling, presentation, site merchandising, engagement, and conversion
• Define PDP content requirements with Ecommerce
• Partner with Product Development to manage merchandising deadlines and milestone decisions
• Serve as product point of contact for cross-functional teams
• Mentor and develop merchandising team members
• Establish scalable merchandising processes, tools, and reporting
• Stay hands-on in data, line planning, and day-to-day execution

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