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This role will lead what we offer, who it serves, and how it shows up by channel, ensuring every assortment decision is clear, owned, and drives performance.\nThis role is ideal for someone who is a hands-on, decisive, consumer-obsessed merchant and can turn forecast and performance data into clear grow, change, test, or exit calls in a fast-paced, evolving environment.\nAll of True Classic’s roles are global and omni-channel, leading designated areas of accountability across all product categories, countries, and sales and marketing channels. This role will have impact across DTC, retail, wholesale, marketplaces, and emerging channels, ensuring strategic alignment and executional rigor across the enterprise.\nAreas of Accountability\nAssortment and Line Plan\nOwn the line plan and assortment architecture across Men’s, Women’s, and every channel\n\nSet style mapping, style count, color, and pack architecture\n\nOwn lifecycle and rationalization, making the call to grow, change, test, or exit\n\nOwn line sheets and product naming\n\nConsumer and Market\nUse consumer segmentation, shopping behavior, and market trends to shape the line\n\nTurn unmet fit needs into fit-need and innovation briefs for Design and Product Development\n\nOwn the returns-fit decision: what fit feedback changes in the line\n\nChannel Assortments and Retail Partners\nOwn channel assortments and distribution mapping across DTC, Amazon, wholesale, retail, and international\n\nOwn retail planograms and lead planogram tests with Sales when placement is the issue\n\nBring the assortment into line reviews and retailer meetings with a clear call\n\nOwn site merchandising and digital bundles with Brand and Digital\n\nPricing and Go-to-Market\nOwn pricing architecture and pricing execution\n\nOwn the go-to-market and merchandising calendar\n\nGet each launch ready with Brand, Digital, Sales, Product Development, and Sourcing\n\nCross-Functional Collaboration\nPartner with Commercial Forecasting and Planning to turn the forecast, performance drivers, and financial impact into grow, change, test, or exit decisions in a weekly business review\n\nWork with Sales to align on retailer meetings, planogram tests, account timing, and size-run restoration\n\nCollaborate with Brand and Digital to deliver launches, site merchandising, and digital bundles\n\nPartner with Product Development, Design, and the CT Special Projects team to translate fit-need and innovation briefs into product\n\nWork with Sourcing to ensure each launch is ready on time\n\nQualifications\nBachelor’s degree and 10+ years of merchandising experience in apparel or consumer goods\n\nExperience as a hands-on merchant across DTC and retail or wholesale assortments, including building line plans, channel assortments, and retail planograms\n\nStrong command of consumer segmentation and shopping behavior\n\nAbility to read forecast, sell-through, in-stock, and margin data from planning partners and make a clear call from it\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead line reviews, retailer meetings, and launches\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in club, mass, or specialty retail alongside DTC\n\nExperience directing innovation briefs and fit-led product development\n\nStrong pricing and pack architecture experience in a value-led brand\n\nExperience with marketplace and international assortments\n\nDemonstrated use of AI tools in day-to-day merchandising work\n\nWorkplace Arrangement\nThis role is hybrid, based in Calabasas, CA (3x/week in office).\nCompensation and Benefits\nCompensation\n$150,000 - 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