Merchandising Manager, Designers and Collections
Signet JewelersWe have many opportunities available on our other career site pages. Click here to link to our careers page! Our banner is part of Signet Jewelers, a purpose-driven company who believes love inspires love and whose mission it is to enable all people to Celebrate Life and Express Love. Signet Jewelers is also a “Great Place to Work-Certified™” company. Innovation and brilliance – two things that set us apart. Join us! Blue Nile is seeking a Manager of Category Management, Designers and Collections to drive day-to-day strategy, performance, and evolution of the Blue Nile assortment. This Manager will combine strong merchant instincts, diamond and product knowledge, customer understanding and analytical rigor to optimize these businesses. The role will own category-level analysis and execution across assortment, pricing, collaborations, product lifecycle, inventory and new product. Responsibilities - Category Strategy & Ownership: Manage day-to-day performance and execution of the category in partnership with the Director of Category Management, Jewelry Translate broader category strategies into actionable assortment, pricing, product, inventory and merchandising plans Balance assortment breadth and customer choice with the need for a more curated, intentional Blue Nile point of view Partner with Site Merchandising, Creative, Marketing, Technology and Retail to ensure collections are presented in ways that make selection inspiring, understandable and intuitive on site and in store Establish product priorities for category pages, search, sort, recommendations, storytelling, marketing, and promotional placements Ensure hero products and key assortment stories receive appropriate visibility Balance visibility of proven core products with strategic newness and growth opportunities Translate complex product differences into clear merchandising stories that help customers quickly understand why a product matters Provide Retail partners with clear product priorities and category stories that Client Advisors can confidently bring to customers Responsibilities - Assortment & Curation: Create and manage the assortment across key collections and classifications Establish clear good/better/best and opening/core/premium product ladders where appropriate Analyze productivity at the SKU and attribute level to identify assortment gaps, duplication and opportunities for rationalization Identify and scale winning product concepts while ensuring long-tail SKUs have a strategic reason to remain in the assortment Partner with Demand Planning to align inventory depth and availability with product productivity and strategic importance Responsibilities - Commercial Management: Monitor category performance across revenue, units, ASP, margin, conversion, inventory productivity and customer engagement Use performance data to recommend changes to assortment, pricing, promotions, inventory investment and site exposure Work closely with Pricing, Finance, and Planning to maintain competitive price architecture while protecting margin and profitability Responsibilities - Product Development and Innovation: Partner with the Director, Product Development, Design, Sourcing and Planning to translate category opportunities into new-product briefs Have finger on the pulse of larger jewelry market to determine new collection and collaboration ideas and opportunities Establish collection storytelling to inspire marketing strategies Use business performance, competitive intelligence, customer behavior and emerging diamond and jewelry trends to identify opportunities for innovation Recommend extensions of winning products across diamond type, shape, carat weight, metal, setting and price point Develop commercial guardrails for new products, including target price positioning, assortment role and expected customer need Support launches from initial concept through assortment planning, launch readiness, digital presentation and post-launch analysis …