L brands

Manager, International Merchandising Operations

L brands$80K — $110K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree preferred
  • 5+ years of relevant experience in operations or project management
  • Strong understanding of global merchandising and financial planning
  • Passionate about problem-solving and business process optimization
  • Proven experience in managing large-scale cross-functional projects
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office and project management tools

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the strategic liaison between different teams ensuring alignment on deliverables
  • Build relationships across global teams for effective collaboration
  • Translate business strategy into actionable operational plans
  • Influence stakeholders to align priorities and timelines
  • Drive new store setups with market patterning and product strategies
  • Lead initiatives that enhance operational speed and scalability
  • Champion adoption of new processes and tools for efficiency
  • Lead cross-functional meetings and ensure follow-up on action items
  • Support development and maintenance of merchandising calendars
  • Ensure alignment of product development with financial planning and go-to-market strategies

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness plans
  • Retirement savings plans with company match
  • Generous employee discount
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Flexible work arrangements and schedules
Full Job Description
Your Role:

The Manager, International Merchandising Operations, is responsible for driving the end-to-end execution of global merchandising and MP&A initiatives. This role serves as a central connector across Merchandising, MP&A, and cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment, scalability, and operational excellence across international markets.

This position plays a critical role in enabling global growth strategies, product development process (PDP), and ongoing business optimization, translating strategy into actionable plans and ensuring execution across regions, channels, and formats. The role requires strong expertise in project management, merchandising processes, analytics, and calendar management, with a clear focus on building scalable, repeatable frameworks for international expansion.

Your Impact:

  • Act as the strategic international liaison between Victoria's Secret Intimates (VSI), PINK, Beauty, and technology teams, ensuring clear alignment of requirements, dependencies, and deliverables across merchandising and MP&A initiatives
  • Build strong relationships across global teams to ensure effective collaboration and execution
  • Translate enterprise business strategy into executable operational and technical plans, partnering with cross functional leaders to drive on time delivery of global initiatives.
  • Influence stakeholders at multiple levels to align priorities, timelines, and business outcomes
  • Drive new store set up through market patterning and product distortions
  • Identify and lead initiatives that enhance operational performance, speed, and scalability
  • Drive adoption of new processes, tools, and technologies to improve efficiency and effectiveness
  • Champion best practices and support training, communication, and implementation plans
  • Lead and facilitate cross-functional meetings, including agenda creation, alignment, and follow-ups
  • Support the development and maintenance of weekly, monthly, seasonal, and merchandising and MP&A calendars
  • Ensure alignment between product development cycles, financial planning timelines, and go-to-market strategies


Click here for benefit details related to this position.

Your Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree preferred
  • 5+ years' relevant working experience, including operations, or project management
  • Strong understanding of global merchandising processes and financial planning principles
  • A passion for problem-solving and for identifying and addressing business process and operational opportunities
  • Proven experience managing cross-functional, large-scale projects
  • Excellent organization and time management skills
  • Ability to quickly adapt to change and thrive in fast-paced environments
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks, projects, and strong prioritization skills to meet deadlines
  • Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; must be comfortable communicating with all levels of management
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and project management tools


About L brands

Bath & Body Works, Inc. is an American specialty retailer based in Columbus, Ohio. It owns Bath & Body Works, posted $11.9 billion in revenue in 2021, and was listed as 248 on the 2020 Fortune 500 list of largest United States companies by revenue. In February 2020, L Brands announced the planned sale of its Victoria's Secret division to Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm. Under the agreement, Sycamore Partners would gain a 55% controlling stake in Victoria's Secret while L Brands would keep a 45% stake, leaving Bath & Body Works to become L Brand's sole business. The sale fell through in May 2020, although Wexner did step down as CEO as planned, replaced by Andrew Meslow. In March 2021, L Brands announced it would spin off Victoria’s Secret as a stand-alone publicly traded company, and then change its name to Bath & Body Works, Inc.
Learn more about L brands
Size
2,800 employees
Market Cap
$22.2 billion
Industry
Net Income
$845.3 million
Founded
1963
5 Year Trend
-0.5%
Revenue
$11.8 billion
NASDAQ

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at L brands

More Retail & Consumer Goods Jobs

Find similar Manager, International Merchandising Operations jobs: