Merchandising Manager – Fragrance & Home Care

The Merchandising Manager, Fragrance & Home Care role is responsible for delighting Quince’s growing customer base by expanding the Fragrance product assortment and launching and managing Home Care on Quince.

At Quince, we believe that everyone deserves access to high quality products at radically affordable prices.  We believe the marketplace for consumer products is inundated with too many options, and customers find product quality difficult to determine and yet frequently pay more for a variety of things that can be delivered at much lower prices.  Our goal is to find the best products in the marketplace and connect the makers of these goods directly to the customers who want them. Quince has proven the consumer value proposition in the apparel and accessories categories and has built a loyal, repeat consumer base.  We want to build on that value proposition and continue to scale the Fragrance category in both existing and new product classes.  This merchant leading Fragrance and Home Care will be responsible for managing the assortment, revenue and margins, and overall growth trajectory of these product categories.

Quince’s growth and success is directly tied to the performance and success of this role. The person in this role will be an innovator at heart leveraging the attributes below to build and run our Fragrance & Home Care businesses:

* Experience in merchandising for Fragrance and Home Care categories (e.g., candles, diffusers, perfume, hand care, laundry care)
* Strong and structured problem solver
* Data driven decision maker
* Deep understanding of consumer/ retail sector dynamics
* Able to leverage technology to build and scale the product strategy
* Independent learner and executor
* Strong communicator
* Collaborative, especially with external partners

Qualifications

• 6-12 years of retail merchandising experience in Fragrance and Home Care categories with demonstrated ownership of category performance.
• E-commerce experience and/or DTC experience preferred
• Hands-on experience developing fragrance and home care products from concept to launch
• Strong vendor relationships with manufacturers and fragrance oil houses
• Proven track record of progressing within an organization and demonstrating continuous growth in roles and responsibilities
• Product obsessed with experience in leveraging data tools and external sources
• Critical eye to anticipate customer needs (both the “science” and “art” of retail merchandising)
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and execution-focused, with a demonstrated ability for building scalable processes and driving cross-functional alignment
• Continuous learner and highly curious; always open to considering new perspectives; proactive when changing course and facing added challenges
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Motivated by working in a fast-paced collaborative environment, where flexibility to stretch into or out of functional comfort zones is crucial for team success
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferred

* Please note, our preference is that this role is hybrid in San Francisco, but we will consider remote candidates