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Salary: CAD 135,000 - 0 / annual
Knix is an award-winning intimate apparel and activewear brand founded in 2013, now one of the fastest-growing intimate apparel brands in North America. The company operates three brands—Knix, Kt by Knix, and MNTD—and reaches over 3 million customers through online stores, retail locations across North America, wholesale partnerships, and Amazon.
The Director, Merchandising will lead merchandising strategy and business across all three brands, reporting to the VP, Merchandising, Planning & Allocations. This role owns accountability for sales, margin, inventory, and profitability across Wholesale, Retail, E-commerce, and Amazon channels.
Key responsibilities include:
**Business & Merchandising:** Lead merchandising strategy across all brands with full P&L accountability. Develop annual and seasonal strategies covering category priorities, assortment plans, pricing, and product flow. Use sales, customer, and market data to identify risks, opportunities, and whitespace, translating insights into business actions. Partner with Planning & Allocations on inventory investment and in-season opportunities. Identify new categories, products, and channels to drive growth. Build differentiated assortments reflecting each brand's customer, positioning, and commercial needs.
**Channel & Product:** Lead merchandising across all four channels, adapting strategies to each channel's needs. Partner with Product and Brand to shape the product roadmap and ensure assortments support customer needs and business goals. Collaborate with Wholesale and Retail on channel and seasonal strategies, and with E-commerce and Amazon on digital assortment, launches, and productivity. Support strategic collaborations and product initiatives that strengthen brand differentiation.
**Team & Cross-Functional Leadership:** Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing Merchandising team with clear priorities and expectations. Work closely with Product, Brand, Marketing, Planning & Allocations, Finance, Retail, Wholesale, and E-commerce to align on business and product priorities. Bring strong merchandising perspective to business decisions and ensure cross-functional alignment. Foster a team culture that encourages merchant thinking, accountability, testing, and continuous improvement.
The ideal candidate balances day-to-day business needs with strategic vision, combining data-driven decision-making with strong merchant instinct and customer intuition. This is a fast-paced role requiring comfort with changing priorities and the ability to operate at both strategic and detailed levels.
**Requirements:**
- 7+ years of merchandising experience with increasing leadership responsibility
- Experience in a high-growth DTC or omnichannel business strongly preferred
- Apparel or intimate apparel experience is an asset
- Experience across multiple channels, including E-commerce and a combination of Retail, Wholesale, and/or Amazon
- Strong understanding of assortment planning, category management, pricing, margin, inventory, forecasting, and in-season management
- Strong financial and analytical skills with ability to understand and manage a P&L or significant portion of business
- Proven experience building and leading high-performing teams
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills and ability to influence decisions across the organization
- Comfortable working at both strategic and detailed levels
- Able to operate effectively in fast-paced business with changing priorities
- Strong customer focus and clear point of view on product and merchandising
