Club 21
, part of COMO Group is a leading international fashion retail company headquartered in Singapore, renowned for curating a portfolio of luxury and contemporary fashion brands across a multi-brand retail platform, alongside the operation of mono-brand luxury boutiques on behalf of globally recognised houses. Operating across multiple markets in Asia, Club 21 combines a deep heritage in fashion curation with an evolving, customer-centric retail model.
JOB SUMMARY
The
Regional Merchandising Director
will be mandated to transform and future-proof the merchandising function across the region — ensuring the long-term commercial sustainability of the business, anticipating and responding to evolving customer expectations, and embedding technology and process innovation across the end-to-end buying and merchandising lifecycle. This is a strategic, change-oriented mandate layered on top of the core disciplines of merchandise planning, buying governance, and inventory productivity across both multi-brand and mono-brand formats.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
1.Strategic Innovation & Business Transformation
Lead a region-wide reimagining of the merchandising function to ensure the business remains commercially sustainable amid shifting luxury retail dynamics, channel fragmentation, and evolving consumer behaviour.
Identify and champion emerging customer needs — including personalisation, sustainability expectations, and cross-channel shopping behaviour — translating these into merchandising strategy and assortment decisions.
Drive the adoption of technology and data-driven tools (AI-assisted demand forecasting, assortment planning platforms, inventory visibility systems, advanced analytics) into the buying and merchandising process to improve speed, accuracy, and responsiveness.
Redesign legacy merchandising processes and workflows to remove inefficiencies, reduce time-to-decision, and build a more agile operating rhythm across buying cycles.
Act as a change leader, building organisational readiness and capability for new tools, ways of working, and decision-making models within the merchandising community.
2. Multi-Brand Curated Retail Merchandising
Own the end-to-end merchandising strategy for the curated multi-brand portfolio, ensuring a differentiated, commercially balanced brand and category mix across markets.
Partner with buying teams to build seasonal assortment strategies that reflect brand positioning, market-specific demand, and competitive white space.
Set and monitor OTB (open-to-buy),sell-through, markdown, and margin targets across brands and categories.
3. Mono-Brand Store Merchandising Governance
Ensure regional compliance with global brand partners' merchandising guidelines, seasonal buy frameworks, and visual merchandising standards for mono-brand stores.
Act as the key regional liaison with brand principals on assortment planning, allocation strategy, and performance review.
Balance global brand mandates with local market commercial realities, negotiating flexibility where needed.
4. Merchandise Planning & Inventory Productivity
Oversee regional merchandise planning, including sales and inventory forecasting, budgeting, and stock allocation across all markets and formats.
Drive inventory productivity metrics(sell-through, GMROI, stock turn, aged stock) and implement corrective action plans where underperformance is identified.
Ensure robust size curve, replenishment, and store-level allocation methodologies are in place and continuously improved.
5. Vendor & Brand Partner Relationship Management
Build and maintain strategic relationships with luxury brand partners, negotiating trading terms, buy commitments, and seasonal calendars.
Represent Club21 at international buying appointments, trade fairs, and brand showcases.
6. Team Leadership & Capability Building
Lead, mentor, and develop a regional team of merchandising and buying professionals across multiple markets.
Build merchandising capability in data literacy, digital tools, and modern buying methodologies as part of the innovation mandate.
7. Cross-Functional &Executive Collaboration
Partner closely with Retail Operations, Marketing, Visual Merchandising, Finance, and Supply Chain to ensure merchandising strategy is executed seamlessly at the store level.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor's degree in Business, Fashion Merchandising, Retail Management, or related field; MBA or equivalent advanced qualification an advantage.
Minimum 12–15 years of progressive merchandising/buying experience within luxury or premium fashion retail, including at least 5 years in a regional or multi-market leadership role.
Proven experience managing both multi-brand curated retail and mono-brand/franchise store merchandising models.
Demonstrated track record of leading merchandising transformation, digital/technology adoption, or process redesign initiatives.
Experience working directly with international luxury brand partners in a regional distributor, franchise, or licensed retail context is highly preferred.
Club 21
is a leading luxury brand retailer and it’s heritage is in building new markets for brand owners. Today, we manage more than 30 luxury brands and operate more than 210 stores worldwide.
Our brand's portfolio includes:
Alexander Wang, Bao Bao, Comme des Garçons, Bonpoint, Club 21b, Club 21 Men, Calvin Klein, Dries Van Noten, Issey Miyake, Jil Sander, Kids 21, Zimmermann, Marni, Mulberry, Paul Smith, Thom Browne and many more.
Why Join us? For a rewarding career and branded employee work experience.
Would you like to be part of something inspirational? Can you help us bring our brand values to life? Club 21 provides knowledgeable and insightful service. We select the best of global style to ensure that our clients can cultivate their own. We are looking for people to join a team striving to achieve these aims and values every day.
If you are committed to your career, self-motivated, and are prepared to deliver a rewarding experience to our clients, ensuring that they return again and again, then Club 21 has a position for you.
We ensure that you receive quality training, the opportunity to work with some of the world's most prestigious luxury fashion brands and, above all, the opportunity to be a part of something truly inspirational.
Club 21 Lifestyle Benefits
Various Types of Leaves
Medical Benefits, Insurance Coverage & Dental Benefit
Career Development Programmes
Staff Discounts (over 70 boutiques islandwide)
Corporate Discounts - Hotels, F&B, Beauty, Yoga & more!
Fun Communities