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POSITION SUMMARY:
The Director of Global Merchandising – Outlet is responsible for shaping the product vision and driving growth across the global Outlet channel. This role ensures the assortment reflects the brand’s core values while being optimized for the Outlet consumer, prioritizing margin, productivity, and strategic differentiation from full-price. The Director partners cross-functionally to build a compelling, high-performing line plan that upholds brand integrity, avoids dilution, and meets the unique needs of each region. This leader guides seasonal strategies, protects profitability, and ensures the product offering resonates with the global customer.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES OF THE JOB:
Drive both short- and long-range merchandising strategies for the Outlet channel, ensuring the product line remains differentiated from full-price while maintaining brand integrity and a strong, channel-appropriate value proposition.
Champion customer centricity, incorporating consumer insights, shopping behaviors, and emerging lifestyle trends into product and assortment decisions.
Partner with regional merchandisers and serve as the key product expert, aligning region-specific line plans, sharing product knowledge, and ensuring global strategies are executed consistently while meeting local needs.
Lead adherence to the global merchandising calendar, ensuring key deliverables and cross-functional milestones are met on time.
Bring customer and market perspectives into design and product development, ensuring assortments reflect current and emerging trends.
Provide clear direction to design, PD, and technical teams to successfully execute merchandising strategies, align on product narratives, and manage seasonal changes.
Collaborate with design on seasonal messaging, ensuring cohesive storytelling, consistent product intent, and alignment to the brand vision across all categories.
Partner with sourcing to manage product development, review protos, track samples, and achieve pricing targets that drive profitability for the Outlet channel.
Provide strong leadership, fostering cross-functional alignment, influencing decision-making, and developing merchandising capabilities across global teams.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:
Experience: At least 8-10 years of merchandising experience
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Merchandising or equivalent
Skills:
Strategic thinker with the ability to identify opportunities, influence cross-functional partners, and drive execution.
Strong product sensibility with experience building profitable assortments and partnering with Design on customer-right concepts.
Analytical and financial acumen with the ability to interpret data and drive margin-focused decisions.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to align and influence global and regional teams.
Strong problem-solving and organizational skills, able to manage complexity and prioritize in a fast-paced environment.
Collaborative leader who fosters partnership, accountability, and a customer-first mindset.
INTERNAL & EXTERNAL CONTACTS:
Internal: Global Merchandising Team, Creative (Design) Team, Global Supply Chain Team, Global Marketing Team, and Regional Merchandisers
External: N/A
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SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Direct: Assistant Merchandiser, Associate Merchandiser
Pay Range:$143,200---$193,300
PVH currently provides base salary ranges for all positions-on job advertisements-in the United States based on local requirements. These ranges are based on what PVH reasonably believes that it will pay an associate for their base salary for said position at the time of the posting. Individual compensation will ultimately be determined based on a variety of relevant factors including but-not limited to qualifications, geographic location and other relevant skills. PVH is committed to providing a market-competitive total rewards package to eligible associates, which includes diverse and robust health and insurance benefits to meet the varied needs of our associates and an above-market 401(k) contribution to help our associates save for retirement. We also offer career growth opportunities, empowering our associates to design their future at PVH.
Additional Compensation: This role is bonus eligible. This role is equity eligible.
Your Wellbeing is Our Priority
At PVH, we offer competitive, cost-effective, and comprehensive benefit packages. We strive to provide options when it comes to your health, finances, and work-life balance. This includes:
Pay & Insurance: Competitive pay, bonus programs, best in class medical insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and more.
401(k): An above-market 401(k) contribution to help our eligible associates save for retirement.
Flexible Workplace: Generous company-paid holidays, paid time off, hybrid working arrangements, volunteer opportunities, seasonal hours, and flexible work schedules.
Wellbeing Support: A variety of wellbeing tools and programs such as, Headspace membership, reimbursement for fitness memberships and/or digital meditation subscriptions, and the opportunity to earn up to $200 a year in rewards for exercising and participating in healthy activities.
Care.com Services: Access to services for childcare, elder care, adoption preparation, pet care, plus reimbursement for backup care when your regular plans fall through.
Education Assistance: Receive support for continued education including tuition reimbursement.
Associate Discount: Shop at our company outlets and e-commerce sites at a discount.
Please note, eligibility depends on employment status, location and length of time employed with PVH and our benefits may be subject to change. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
About PVH:
We are brand builders who focus our passion and creativity to build Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER into the most desirable lifestyle brands in the world and at the same time position PVH as one of the best-performing brand groups in our sector. Guided by our values and enabled by our scale and global reach, we are driving fashion forward for good, as one team with one vision and one plan. That’s the Power of Us, that’s the Power of PVH+.
One of PVH’s greatest strengths is our people. Our collective desire is to create a workplace environment where every individual is valued, and every voice is heard, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of associates with a strong sense of belonging. Learn more about Inclusion & Diversity at PVH here.
PVH Corp. or its subsidiary ("PVH") is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment on the basis of their individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, PVH is also committed to ensuring that all current and future PVH associates are compensated solely on job-related factors such as skill, ability, educational background, work quality, experience and potential.
To achieve these goals, across the United States and its territories, PVH prohibits any PVH employee, agent or representative from requesting or otherwise considering any job applicant’s current or prior wages, salary or other compensation information in connection with the hiring process. Accordingly, applicants are asked not to disclose this salary history information to PVH.
