Digital Merchandiser

About Us

If you are passionate about fashion and love technology, here is your opportunity to be working with the coolest digital e-commerce team in the Middle East, serving all your fashion needs in one place! Ounass is your one-stop destination for all things luxury making it The Definitive Home of Luxury. It's our homegrown, local, e-commerce platform catering to Middle Eastern customers across a realm of axes such as - Fashion consisting of Womenswear, Menswear & Kidswear, Beauty, Watches, Home & Jewelry.

At Ounass, we strongly believe that our culture is what brings us together and helps us succeed. We strive to be the leading luxury technology platform in the Middle East region, making sure we're the first choice for our customers. We're highly customer-focused driven, ensuring that both our customers and employees are the core of the business. We're recognized for our incredibly fast 2 hours delivery services within Dubai, while also providing a fabulous and dedicated Personal Shopping service for our VIP clientele.

We fall under the umbrella of a distinguished Al Tayer Group and are based in the ever happening and multi-cultural city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. We currently are a growing family of 300 employees spread across the globe – UAE, United Kingdom, Turkey, Portugal, Ukraine, and Sri Lanka. Ounass focuses and emphasizes having a highly diverse and inclusive team consisting of 34 different nationalities, ensuring a strong cultural foothold. Our young, vibrant, and growing team of 300 is extremely ambitious and is constantly innovating while growing the brand name and position together as a team.

Job Description

We are currently looking for a Digital Merchandiser who is responsible to drive product sales, with a focus on onsite search, sorting rules, product placement, and page/product content.

1. Assure of timely and accurate site content. Site content includes product images, product descriptions, digital shopping tools, and promotions.
2. Partner with Planning, Photo, Product writing, and Digital Marketing teams to orchestrate and support the successful launch of new assortments from product pass off to the photocycle to UAT and finally web launch.
3. Maintain product lifecycle reports to identify bottlenecks in the time-to-site process.
4. Assure products can easily be found by customers through optimization of taxonomy, filters, internal search, and product placement.
5. Analyze site metrics and review competitors to assure that site reflects optimal digital merchandising practices.
6. Review site daily to assure accuracy of product assortments, content marketing, and promotions.
7. Track inventory levels for items in content marketing. Partner with Planners to forecast demand.
8. Identify online sales opportunities based on stock levels and conversion.
9. Prepare Ad Hoc reports as needed to support Digital Merchandising and Digital Trading Managers.
10. Look at ways to increase performance against KPIs.
11. Develop effective and collaborative working relationships within the team.
12. Run weekly merchandising analysis and share with the commercial team.
13. Support the Digital Merchandising manager in delivering improved product availability to the customer- the right stock at the right time.
14. Work flexibly across projects taking ownership of specified deliverables in support of the overall merchandising strategy ensuring milestones are met on time and to specified standards.
15. Work on trend reports and analysis and present valuable recommendations and insights.

Requirements

What we are looking for…

• 3-4 years of experience in a digital merchandising role.
• Experience in using data to provide understandable insight and recommendations.
• Understanding KPIs that deliver success within an online retail organization and their impact on a merchandising team.
• Expert knowledge of luxury fashion brands and products.
• Strong excel skills.
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Professional attitude and a real pride in the quality of work.
• Problem solver with strong organizational and follow-up skills.
• A dedicated team player.
• Ability to complete tasks accurately and on time.
• Confident, articulative, and ability to put forward ideas.
• Ability to adapt to a constantly evolving work environment.
• Understanding of and enthusiasm for fashion.

Benefits

What is in it for you!

• The opportunity to shape the future of fashion with a dynamic & autonomous multinational team.
• Big potential for personal growth, training, and further development of skills.
• Attractive employee discounts across our brands.
• Competitive salary.
• The latest technology tools.
• Non-stop learning.
• 365 days of loving what you do.