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Salary: GBP 80,000 - 100,000 / annual
Quince is a manufacturer-to-consumer (M2C) retailer delivering high-quality essentials at accessible prices across apparel, accessories, home goods, and more. The company operates with a mission to challenge retail conventions through direct manufacturing partnerships, proprietary technology, and data-driven operations.
You will own end-to-end product strategy and assortment for the women's woven category across the UK and EU region. This is a strategic and executional role where you will drive regional performance through compelling product curation, trading optimization, and deep customer insight. You may build the department from the ground up with oversight, establishing yourself as the category expert and long-term strategist.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own assortment execution, product launches, and performance tracking for women's wovens in UK/EU
- Execute regional merchandising strategy in partnership with US Product Merchandising and international peers
- Contribute to product ideation and develop business cases for new opportunities
- Work cross-functionally with Product, Regional Merchandising, Planning, Marketing, Technical Design, and Sourcing to deliver successful launches while balancing inventory, go-to-market execution, quality (fit, sizing, margin), and pricing
- Analyze trading performance (sales, returns, margin) and own corrective actions
- Manage pricing and assortment decisions for the region
- Own product catalog management, data accuracy, and system maintenance
- Build site merchandising strategy, including PDP improvements and customer journey optimization
- Monitor ratings, reviews, and returns to identify product quality improvements
- Manage regional product samples and merchandising assets
- Maintain merchandising reports, tools, trackers, and pricing files
- Evaluate regional product compliance requirements and partner with Sourcing and Quality teams
The role is based in one of Quince's UK/EU offices (London, Madrid, or Berlin) with a 4-day per week in-office requirement.
Qualifications:
- 8–10 years of retail merchandising or buying experience in womenswear, with specific women's woven category experience and demonstrated ownership of category performance
- E-commerce and/or DTC experience, with exposure to both startup and established (blue-chip) brands preferred
- Proven track record of progressing within an organization with continuous growth in roles and responsibilities
- Strong product awareness with commercial mindset and attention to detail
- Product obsessed; experience leveraging data tools and external sources to drive results
- Critical eye to anticipate customer needs (both the "science" and "art" of retail merchandising)
- Strong analytical skills with experience using data to inform trading and merchandising decisions (sales, margin, return rates)
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in both executional and strategic support roles
- Experience working cross-functionally with Planning, Design, Sourcing, or Marketing teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with ability to influence through concise written narrative
- Motivated by fast-paced collaborative environments; flexibility to stretch into or out of functional comfort zones
- Adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity and change
- Bachelor's degree preferred
