• Lead Brilliant Earth’s Merchandising and Planning functions, ensuring the right people, processes, and tools are in place to support business growth, profitability, and data driven decision making. • Manage all aspects of the Merchandising function including product assortment, product launch strategy, pricing and promotional strategy/execution, reporting and analysis, etc. • Partner with Product Development/Design team to ensure Brilliant Earth offers a compelling assortment of products that meets market trends and customer needs while optimizing assortment opportunities • Oversee the development, management, and execution of financial plans across categories and channels. • Drive the financial success of each category by developing assortment plans and investment strategies that meet sales, gross margin and inventory productivity goals. • Oversee the reporting and analysis of financial performance by category, sub-category, SKU attribute, and channel to identify opportunities and risks, and lead team to implement actions to address. • Oversee price optimization initiatives, including recurring price reviews, price testing and markdowns. • Support in implementing new tools and models to make data-driven decisions around pricing. • Partner with Marketing and Digital teams to maximize product performance by supporting successful new launches and ensuring that products are represented in optimal manner on website and other marketing channels in order to optimize sell-through. • Hire, train and mentor direct reports to develop appropriate skills and support their career aspirations. • Create and foster a collaborative, innovative, and results-oriented team culture.