: About the Company
6thStreet.com is an omnichannel fashion & lifestyle destination that offers 1400+ fashion & beauty brands in the UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain & Qatar. Customers can shop the latest on-trend outfits, shoes, bags, beauty essentials and accessories from international brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Hugo, Marks & Spencers, Dune London, Charles & Keith, Aldo, Crocs, Birkenstock, Skechers, Levi's, Nike, Adidas, Loreal, and Inglot amongst many more. 6thStreet.com recently opened GCC's first phygital store at Dubai Hills Mall; an innovative tech-led space which combines the best of both online & offline shopping with online browsing & smart fitting rooms.
Overview
We are seeking creative, goal-oriented and highly entrepreneurial people to join our exciting and fast-paced team. We are focused on growing and developing a smart assortment of brands and providing easy access to fashion, with the best possible shopping experience for our fashion customers. Reporting to a Director of category management and merchandising he or she will have responsibility for owning end to end of a group of categories, in areas such as vendor management, in stock management and online content management. You will lead a high performing team whose primary goal is to build and grow our business online, crafting great shopping experience. Functional responsibility of the role spans the full spectrum of e-commerce including strategy definition, product acquisition, buying, merchandising, pricing, planning, project management, and marketing management.
Key Job Responsibilities:

• Strategy Definition - You will understand and have an in-depth knowledge of the retail and marketplace business in GCC, will develop and foster clear and comprehensive strategic objectives for the business and drive them through implementation.
• P&L responsibility - You will drive the top and bottom line, optimizing all aspects of the categories P&Ls by delivering the right mix of selection expansion, smart pricing, efficient inventory management, margin improvements, top-notch customer experience, merchandising and traffic generation, and new product development.
• Improve inputs, manage buying, forecasting & Inventory Management - team will be responsible for resolving customer needs, growing selection across brands, handling vendor partners, optimizing vendor terms, and efficient inventory management.
• Online Store management and demand generation - Responsible for pricing, promotions, site merchandising, demand generation and complete customer experience.
• Product management - drive the need for new product innovation, including site features and improvements as well as new sourcing solutions.
• Process Improvement - invent and drive continuous process improvement and automation across our systems to scale.
• Focus on the team's talent management - which includes effectively recruiting and developing the best and optimally directing the work and organization goals to deliver bold results.

A day in the life of this role would include:

• auditing inputs (selection, pricing, speed), sales, confirming with the team that the right actions to deliver inputs, sales and profitability are in place
• meeting with external vendors C-level in top-to-top meetings to discuss direction of the business and joint business plans
• meeting with internal product and operations teams to unlock future projects and business opportunities, review operations metrics to confirm planned progress
• working through estimates and planning rounds with other teams and finance
• coaching and developing members of own team and others
• writing up and presenting business status update and plans
• communicating direction to the team and auditing team metrics

Preferred Qualification:

• 5+ Years of experience in e-commerce/retail industry,
• 5+ Years of driving process improvement experience, driving automation and standardization
• Experience in internal and external stakeholder management,
• Sound business judgment confirmed ability to influence others, and strong analytical thinking skills as well as a consistent track record of taking ownership and driving results.
• Ability to operate successfully in a lean organization and be able to create a vision and organization that can scale
• Knowledge of Excel at an intermediate level (e.g., pivot tables & charts, multiple criteria lookups, nested logical/IF formulas, data cleansing, array formulas, etc.)
• Clear evidence of managing and motivating a team, both direct and indirect reports
• You are hands-on, highly organized, detail oriented, data driven, and self-starting
• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive
• English and Arabic (Not Mandatory) fluency

Benefits:

• Full-time role
• Competitive salary
• Company employee discounts across all brands
• Medical & health insurance
• Collaborative work environment
• Good vibes work culture.