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Belk Posts a Slew of Private Brand Jobs
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Here is a slew of Private Brand jobs from the regional department store Belk. Belk, Inc. is the nation’s largest privately owned department store company with more than 300 fashion department stores in 16 contiguous Southern states and sales totaling $3.8 billion in its past fiscal year. The company seeks to be the department store of choice in each community it serves by providing superior service and merchandise that meets customers’ needs for fashion, value and quality.
Job Description
Belk, Inc is seeking candidates for the position of Product Manager. This position is responsible for creating quality private brand merchandise for Belk. They serve as the liason between Buyers, QA, the Trend Merchandiser, and the Sourcing Manager. They work closely with Buyers and DMM’s to determine the role of private brands in the assortment. They spec and design private brand merchandise and coordinate production with sourcing and technical.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Maintaining an ongoing dialogue with Buyers and DMM’s to share information on current and future product development needs
- Facilitating the refinement of product design, specifications and costs
- Supervising all contacts on private label merchandise including garment specifications, packaging and labeling specifications, and quality control information (with QC team)
- Managing product flow and delivery dates to ensure merchandise arrives in accordance with corporate time and action calendar
- Shopping the market, visiting Belk stores and shopping competitors (with the Trend Merchandiser)
Essential Functions
Behavioral Traits:
- Strong fashion sense and the ability translate merchant/ market input into highly salable products
- High degree of creativity
- Outstanding communication skills
- Willingness to be flexible in developing and modifying product to suit merchant/ customer needs
- Exhibits effective leadership by:
- Maintaining professionalism in work relationships and habits,
- Providing direction, counseling and coaching to staff
- Developing creative solutions to business issues
- Ability to work effectively with Buyers and DMM’s
Management Practices and Business Applications:
- Coordinate the development of private brand product that meets merchant needs and required quality specifications
- Develop production flow charts on programs with factories and vendors to ensure compliance with the corporate time and action calendar. Coordinate with Sourcing Manager
- Work with outside design agency to develop sketches and specs of private brand merchandise
- Create print/ color assortment by brand for each season
- Define the number and quantity of packs
- Ensure that all product materials are shipped to the appropriate factories to avoid production delays
- Track and monitor private brand shipments to ensure delivery in accordance with corporate time and action calendar
- Maintain accurate records of all style components including fabric swatches, color standards, print work, trims labels and specs
- Shop all competition in appropriate markets to benchmark Belk private brands versus the industry
Job Requirements
Education & Experience
- Four year college degree
- 5+ years of product design experience
- Excellent communication, problem-solving and delegation skills
- Excellent analytical and reasoning skills
- Strong leadership, motivational abilities
Physical Skills
- Available and able to travel
- Able to see and distinguish colors
Reports Directly To:
VP – Product Development
Senior Product Manager
Supervises:
Associate Product Manager
Assistant Product Manager
Merchandise Assistant
Private Brand Assistant Product Manager
Belk, Inc is seeking candidates for the position of Assistant Product Manager. This position is responsible for assisting the Product Manager in creating quality private brand merchandise for Belk. They serve with the Product Manager as the liaison between BSS and QA, the Trend Merchandiser, and the Sourcing Manager. They work closely with BSS market reps and DMM’s to determine the role of private brands in the assortment. They assist in spec and design private brand merchandise and coordinate production with sourcing and technical. Specific responsibilities include, assisting the Product Manager in the following:
Job Description
- Maintaining an ongoing dialogue with BSS and division merchants to share information on current and future product development needs.
- Facilitating the refinement of product design, specifications and costs.
- Supervising all contacts on private label merchandise including garment specifications, packaging and labeling specifications, and quality control information (with QC team).
- Managing product flow and delivery dates to ensure merchandise arrives in accordance with corporate time and action calendar.
- Shopping the market, visiting Belk Stores and shopping competitors (with the Trend Merchandiser).
Essential FunctionsBehavioral Traits:
- Strong fashion sense and the ability translate merchant/ market input into highly salable products.
- High degree of creativity.
- Outstanding communication skills.
- Willingness to be flexible in developing and modifying products to suit merchant/customer needs.
- Exhibits effectives leadership by:
- Maintaining professionalism in work relationships and habits
- Providing direction, counseling and coaching to staff
- Developing creative solutions to business issues
- Ability to work effectively with BSS and Division merchants.
Management Practices and Business Applications:
- Coordinate the development of private brand product that meets BSS merchants needs and required quality specifications.
- Develop production flow charts on programs with factories and vendors to ensure compliance with the corporate time and action calendar. Coordinate with Sourcing Manager.
- Work with outside design agency to develop sketches and specs of private brand merchandise.
- Coordinate with CAD Designer to create print/ color assortment by brand for each season.
- AI (Animated Images) maintenance, including managing item summary, PO’s and cost sheets, and generating and updating prepacks.
- Consolidate BSS market rep placements into company-wide production orders.
- Ensure that all product materials are shipped to the appropriate factories to avoid production delays.
- Track and monitor private brand shipments to ensure delivery in accordance with corporate time and action calendar.
- Maintain accurate records of all style components including fabric swatches, color standards, print work, and trim labels and specs.
- Shop all competition in appropriate markets to benchmark Belk private brands versus the industry.
- Complete competitive shopping reports on key items/categories.
Position Requirements
- Four year college degree
- 2-3 years of product design experience
- Excellent communication, problem solving and delegation skills
- Excellent analytical and reasoning skills
- Strong leadership, motivational abilities
Physical
- Available and able to travel
- Able to see and distinguish colors
Reports Directly to: Product Manager
Private Brand Designer
Job Description
Belk, Inc is seeking candidates for the position of Private Brands Designer. This position is responsible for designing, developing and executing product designs that achieve Belk’s Private Brand objectives, and overall product strategy. Participate in research and development of seasonal trends and ensure that designs meet merchant line plans, assortment strategies, price points, and overall creative direction.
- Strong fashion sense and ability to translate merchant/ market input into highly salable product.
- Create and present design concepts to Product Management, Merchant Teams, Trend Department, Technical Design and Vendor partners.
- Create development sketches for new private brand styles.
- Apply understanding of design process and Private Brands/Merchant’s business objectives to ensure consistency and drive financial results.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Overseas Offices, Merchandising, Trend Department, Textile Design, Technical Design/QA, and Vendors to achieve product execution and maintain design integrity.
- Produce cohesive product presentations to sell concept to entire team, including boards, tear sheets and samples.
- Evaluate all meeting and production samples with extended Private Brand team.
- Participate as a member of Private Brand team for continual improvement of product.
Other Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop relationships and interact with extended Private Brand teams, extended Merchandising teams, Trend Director, Overseas Offices, and vendors to exchange ideas, leverage expertise and streamline the process.
- Ability to travel as necessary.
Job Requirements
- BS, BA in Fashion Design, Fine Art or related field.
- 5 years experience in related field, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated creative ability.
- Knowledge of design and product development processes.
- Presentation and organizational skills.
- Proven design expertise in a given category.
- Commercial sense and market knowledge.
- Strong listening skills and experience assimilating product feedback.
- Ability to prioritize and manage workload with multiple deadlines.
- Demonstrated proactive thinking and problem solving ability; team player.
- Ability to research and apply market/trend information.
- PC skills, knowledge of design related computer system.
Reports Directly to: Director of Private Brand Design
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Premium Men’s Private Brand Fashion From Belk
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This past weekend I found myself wandering the local mall or, more appropriately, being led through the local mall by my wife and kids. As we shopped, I found myself thinking back to my recent post “Private Brand has an Executive Vision on CNBC” about the CNBC show “Executive Vision,” which featured Private Brands. The episode included a round table with Tommy Hilfiger, Founder & Principal Designer for the Tommy Hilfiger Group and Steve Sadie, Chairman & CEO of Saks, among others discussing Private Brands. The two carried on a lively discussion about premium fashion brands and the ability of Private Brands to effectively compete in the space.
As if on cue, we walked into Belk. Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Belk is the nation’s largest privately owned department store chain with more than 300 stores in 16 Southern states. I grew up shopping in Belk. I can remember my mother and grandmother taking me to shop the store for back-to-school clothes and my first suit. So I have fond memories of the name, the brand and the experience.
Belk now carries a premium men’s clothing brand named after one of their founders, W.H. Belk. The brand includes dress shirts, sport coats and accessories, which, despite Mr. Hilfiger’s assertion to the contrary, completely engaged me—good quality men’s clothing at a great price from a brand I trust. That’s right a brand, in this case the retailer, Belk, made the leap to brand, and I found myself wanting several of the shirts. Unfortunately my family was tugging on my sleeve to move on so I will plan another trip to buy a couple of W.H. Belk shirts.
Lorena Garcia Says Hi!
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I haven’t spoken much of exclusive private brands bu there are many retailers that use this as a significant if sometimes expensive part of their strategy. Target is well known for its many exclusive brands often generated from relative unknowns who Target is able to build to stardom. Michael Graves although widely respected by design and architecture afficionados was relatively unknown to Mom and Dad America. Kohls follows a similar strategy but uses extremely relevant musicians and skateboarder to lend credility and creat relevant brands. Vera Wang now has everything from handbags to skirts to bediing in Kohls, not cheap. Are they all worth the investment given Kohl’s very active discounting?
Charlotte is home to the corporate headquarters of the largest privately held department store chain, Belks. They have also utilized several exclusive brands with licensing agreements. Here is their home decor cooking brand Lorena Garcia. According to her website she is one of america’s leading latina chefs with multiple tv credits. I am not sure I get stretching a latina chef from cookware to bath towels, but maybe it works?
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