The field of fashion marketing and merchandising covers a wide variety
of positions. You could work as a fashion buyer, customer service representative, retail store owner, visual merchandiser, retail manager, manufacturer's representative, operations manager, marketer, advertiser, and more. Merchandising, within fashion retail, refers specifically to the stock planning, management, and control process. This position requires well-developed quantitative skills, and natural ability to discover trends, meaning relationships and interrelationships among standard sales and stock figures.