Vice President, Merchandising

🔥 15 hours ago

🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Vice President

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CSC Generation

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1001 - 5000 employees

🛒 Retail

🛍️ eCommerce

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Venture Round on 2019-01

Retail • eCommerce • Artificial Intelligence

CSC Generation is a retail technology platform that enhances revenue growth and unit margin management through automation and AI. The company manages a diverse portfolio of 325,000 products online and receives over 10 million monthly page views across its brands. CSC Generation specializes in retail, ecommerce, and wholesale, with a commitment to expanding by acquiring successful brands. Founded in 2016 by Justin Yoshimura, CSC Generation has acquired several well-known brands including One Kings Lane and Sur La Table, and continues to seek out new brands to join its network. The company offers extensive career opportunities and focuses on creating an inspiring and challenging work environment.

📋 Description

• Own the full merchandising function for a portfolio brand, including assortment strategy, vendor partnerships, catalog quality, pricing, margin, and promotional calendar • Set category and price-point assortment strategy and conduct continuous assortment gap analysis • Own SKU productivity and define the brand’s merchandising point of view • Source, pitch, and sign new drop-ship vendors • Negotiate commercial agreements covering cost, margin, freight, delivery, returns, damages, marketing funding, rebates, and exclusivity • Evaluate vendor operational costs and reset terms or exit underperforming relationships • Manage vendor service-level commitments, scorecards, and quarterly business reviews • Build and manage exclusive and co-developed product programs • Represent the brand at markets and trade shows • Own catalog quality, taxonomy, attribution, imagery, copy, dimensions, and lead-time accuracy • Normalize vendor feeds and partner with technology on scalable catalog systems • Partner with Site Merchandising and Marketing on category architecture, search relevance, collections, gifting, and seasonal moments • Own gross margin, pricing strategy, MAP/MSRP discipline, and vendor-funded promotions • Partner with Finance and the CEO on revenue and margin planning and report business performance • Automate recurring analysis and reporting with AI and roll out AI-enabled merchandising workflows • Model AI adoption and build AI-assisted capabilities for non-technical merchants • Validate AI output against source data and commercial logic • Build, mentor, and develop the merchandising team • Partner with Marketing, Site, Operations, Finance, and the CEO on company strategy

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years in merchandising, buying, or category management in retail or e-commerce, including direct people leadership • Demonstrated ownership of a revenue and gross margin number • Real vendor negotiation experience, including setting and resetting commercial terms • Fluency with product data and catalog management, including PIM or equivalent, taxonomy and attribution, and item setup at scale • AI fluency and hands-on experience with AI-assisted tools such as Claude, Copilot, or BI-native AI features • Experience connecting AI-assisted tools to live data sources such as a data warehouse or ERP • Strong analytical and financial instincts • Fluency in Excel and comfort with SQL or a BI tool • Ability to translate data into defensible decisions • Comfort operating independently in a lean team reporting to a CEO • Drop-ship or marketplace merchandising experience preferred • Home, furniture, or home decor category experience preferred • Employment contingent on a background check, including verification of prior employment dates • Must be willing and able to attend a mandatory in-person interview before receiving an offer

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off policies • RRSP match (Canada) • Medical, dental, and vision coverage (Canada) • Variety of supplemental benefit options (Canada) • Employee discounts across the portfolio of brands • 401(k) match (US) • Medical/dental/vision coverage and supplemental policies (US)