Build the system that governs 3,000+ styles across four brands; your architecture, your standard.
This is a role for someone who plans the whole structure before moving a single piece. You'll act as the product architect for Misook and Ming Wang while directing buying teams for Kasper and Jones New York, owning OTB, IMU, gross margin, and GMROI across a $30MM+ base. You set the Impact Filter discipline that forces every buy and reorder to answer to data, not opinion. Precision matters here: agile capsule replenishment, dynamic pricing against supply chain costs, and size curves that hold up under scrutiny.
What you'll do- Act as product architect for proprietary brands (Misook, Ming Wang) and direct buying teams for vendor brands (Kasper, Jones New York).
- Own OTB, IMU, gross margin, and GMROI across 3,000+ styles and a $30MM+ revenue base.
- Drive agile, demand-driven delivery and replenishment of evergreen capsule collections (~25% of assortment).
- Test and implement strategic price increases and dynamic pricing to offset supply chain costs.
- Enforce the Impact Filter framework so buys and reorders are grounded in data, not opinion.
- Partner across Design, Production, Planning, Inventory, Logistics, and Sales, and adopt modern merchandising and AI tools.
Qualifications & Experience- Education: Bachelor's degree, preferably in Fashion Merchandising, Business Administration, Apparel, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience: 8-10+ years of progressive product merchandising, category management, and buying leadership experience within the apparel sector, with multi-brand portfolio experience strongly preferred.
- Dual-Model Background: Proven experience operating within both vertical product development lifecycles (private label/in-house design-to-production) and third-party wholesale procurement/buying.
- Retail Math Fluency: Advanced command of core retail metrics, including IMU, GMROI, sell-through velocity, inventory turn, OTB governance, gross margin, and markdowns.
- Portfolio & Scale Capability: Proven comfort and capability managing high SKU matrices (3,000+ active styles) and sizable revenue scale ($30MM+).
- Leadership & Cross-Functional Influence: Strong leadership skills with experience managing teams, driving cross-functional initiatives, and presenting data-backed assortment strategies to design, planning, and executive leadership.
- Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (complex formulas, modeling, pivot tables) and PowerPoint; direct experience utilizing enterprise ERP, PLM, or merchandise planning platforms
What this job rewardsYou own the framework end to end and hold the line on how decisions get made. Success is clean, defensible assortment architecture and metrics that prove it: sell-through, turns, and margin all moving the right direction. You get the detail, the control, and the authority to build it correctly the first time. The people who thrive here would rather do it right than do it fast and loose.
Location: Grapevine, TX
Salary range: $140,000 - $170,000
Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO, Paid Holidays, 75% Employee Discount
