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About the Role

Drive day-to-day strategy, performance, and evolution of the Blue Nile assortment by optimizing businesses through merchant instincts, diamond and product knowledge, customer understanding, and analytical rigor. This role owns category-level analysis and execution across assortment, pricing, natural and lab-grown mix, product lifecycle, inventory, and new product development.

Responsibilities

Manage day-to-day performance and execution of the Diamond Basics businesses.
Translate broader category strategies into actionable assortment, pricing, product, inventory, and merchandising plans.
Develop deep expertise in customer missions, shopping behaviors, and competitive dynamics.
Maintain clear roles for natural and lab-grown diamonds and identify opportunities to evolve the mix.
Identify white space across product type, diamond shape, carat weight, setting, metal, price point, and customer need.
Develop fact-based recommendations for investment, expansion, testing, maintenance, repositioning, or exit.
Balance assortment breadth with a curated point of view.
Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure Diamond Basics are presented effectively online and in-store.
Establish product priorities for category pages, search, sort, recommendations, storytelling, marketing, and promotional placements.
Ensure hero products and key assortment stories receive appropriate visibility.
Balance visibility of core products with newness and growth opportunities.
Translate complex product differences into clear merchandising stories.
Provide Retail partners with clear product priorities and category stories for Client Advisors.
Manage the Diamond Basics assortment across key classifications including earrings, pendants, necklaces, and bracelets.
Build clear assortment architecture across carat weight, diamond type, setting, metal, silhouette, and price.
Ensure strong coverage of core customer needs while identifying opportunities for newness and expansion.
Establish clear good/better/best and opening/core/premium product ladders.
Analyze productivity at the SKU and attribute level to identify assortment gaps, duplication, and rationalization opportunities.
Identify and scale winning product concepts while ensuring strategic reasons for long-tail SKUs.
Partner with Demand Planning to align inventory depth and availability with product productivity and strategic importance.
Monitor Diamond Basics performance across revenue, units, ASP, margin, conversion, inventory productivity, and customer engagement.
Understand performance differences across natural versus lab-grown, preset versus customizable products, price tiers, carat weights, metals, and product classifications.
Use performance data to recommend changes to assortment, pricing, promotions, inventory investment, and site exposure.
Work closely with Pricing, Finance, and Planning to maintain competitive price architecture while protecting margin and profitability.
Partner with teams to translate category opportunities into new-product briefs.
Use business performance, competitive intelligence, customer behavior, and emerging trends to identify innovation opportunities.
Recommend extensions of winning products across various attributes.
Develop commercial guardrails for new products.
Support launches from concept through post-launch analysis.
Establish success criteria and provide recommendations to scale, adjust, or exit products post-launch.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, Economics, Analytics, Marketing or a related field.
3-5+ years’ experience in merchandising with preference for diamond expertise.
Strategic mindset with a focus on translating complex data into actionable business strategies.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with shifting priorities.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
Strong leadership skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments.
Blue Nile will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Skills

Excel
SQL
Tableau
Diamond expertise
Merchandising
Category Management
Assortment Planning
Pricing Strategy
Inventory Management
Product Lifecycle Management
Customer Analysis
Data Analysis
Strategic Planning
Leadership
Communication
Interpersonal Skills

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

3-5+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

$100,000 - $140,000

Benefits

Healthcare
Paid Time Off
Retirement planning
Opportunities for career advancement
Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan with Company Match
Flexible Spending Account
Health Savings Account
Tuition Reimbursement
Employee Discount
Parental Leave
Life Insurance

About the Company

At Blue Nile, many of our roles offer a high-quality, comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, paid time off, retirement planning and opportunities for career advancement. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, employment type, work schedule or location.

Equal Opportunity

Blue Nile is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, citizenship, immigration status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law. Blue Nile will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws.