About Bloomingdale’s makes fashion personal and fun, aspirational yet approachable. Our mission is to guide and inspire our customers to make style a source of creative energy in their lives. We will always strive to make Bloomingdale’s like no other store in the world. Across all brand touchpoints—from Bloomingdales.com to our newest small store concept, Bloomie’s—everyone plays a critical role bringing our mission to life. Our inclusive culture promotes diversity of background, thought and opinion. Regardless of position, we believe all colleagues have a voice and access to share their thoughts with every level of leadership. Our colleagues are passionate, driven, entrepreneurial and collaborative, while having a lot of fun along the way. Job Overview The Director of Merchandise Initiatives will be a trusted advisor, operational partner, and thought leader to the Chief Merchant. This person will facilitate decisions and ensure priorities are executed with precision, facilitate effective cross-functional collaboration, and drive alignment across a fast-paced merchandising organization. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, is a natural problem solver, and has experience managing complex projects in retail or consumer-driven businesses. Essential Functions • Strategic Planning & Execution • Drive the Chief Merchant’s strategic agenda, aligning short- and long-term priorities across merchandising categories, marketing, digital, stores and external partners. • Manage strategic projects from inception to completion, ensuring timelines and deliverables are met. • Identifying areas of improvement across the organization and making actionable recommendations. • Providing hands-on support to transform ideas into reality and monitor their progress. • Steering strategic business initiatives from genesis to fruition. • Pinpointing and addressing core issues within business processes. • Operational Leadership • Prepare market prep, pitch decks/presentations, and reports for internal and external stakeholders, including the executive committee. • Lead and streamline recurring team meetings, including business reviews, strategy meetings, and offsites. • Act as a gatekeeper and prioritize incoming requests to the Chief Merchant, ensuring focus on what matters most. • Cross-Functional Collaboration • Serve as a liaison and foster effective communication and alignment between the Chief Merchant/merchandising and other functions such as Marketing, Digital, Stores, external partners and Macy’s. • Support the onboarding and development of key merchandising leaders. • Special Projects & Communications • Lead and support special projects on behalf of the Chief Merchant, often involving confidential or sensitive business topics. • Draft key communications, galvanize resources and influence teams ensuring alignment to the merchandising vision. • Perform other duties as assigned Qualifications And Competencies • Educations/Experience: • Bachelor’s Degree from a 4-Year College or University • 7-10 years of related experience • Financial Business Acumen: Ability to understand and analyze financial aspects to make informed strategic decisions. • Change Management: Comfort and effectiveness in leading teams through change ensuring successful adaptation. • Leadership: • Capability to lead through influence, fostering collaboration and building trust with a focus on achieving results. • Excellent leadership, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work across functional lines at many levels. • Communication Skills: • Effective communication with candor, valuing open debate to bring the best ideas to life. • Practices open and continuous communication, values keeping others informed, effectively presenting information in a clear, concise manner. • Visionary Thinking: • Ability to be a forward thinking and innovative leader with a vision to drive transformative strategies. • Ability to think creatively, strategically, and technically and to connect the dots between multiple complex processes and systems • Physical Requirements: • Requires prolonged periods of sitting, with occasional standing. • Occasionally requires walking, bending, reaching, hearing and talking. • Continuous use of computers and other office equipment. • May require lifting/moving up to 25 lbs. • Ability to work a flexible schedule based on company needs This position may be eligible for performance-based incentives/bonuses. Benefits include 401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more. Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment. Additional benefit details are available at bloomingdalesJOBS.com.